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03/31/2008 09:34:18 PM · #1 |
New British Sports Car.
The last two sentences of the first paragraph in that article.
If this works and becomes affordable, electric cars might almost
completely displace fossil fuel powered passenger vehicles in a
generation or less. This is almost as good news as the find
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03/31/2008 10:06:45 PM · #2 |
I like the 'find' but something smells bad...first, they found the oil in 1951. The estimated how much there was in 1999 - 9 years ago. I remember decades ago that 'shale oil' in colorado was the answer to our petro problems. And then the article says we're making Dubai rich- not so. Most of our imported oil comes from canada, mexico and venezuela.
"Advances in thermally conductive in-situ conversion may enable shale-derived oil to be
competitive with crude oil at prices below $40 per barrel. If this becomes the case, oil shale development may soon
occupy a very prominent position in the national energy agenda."
Estimated U.S. oil shale reserves total an astonishing 1.5 trillion barrels of oil - or more than five times the
stated reserves of Saudi Arabia.
- //www.dailyreckoning.com/rpt/OilShale.html
Oil was $72/barrel in April 2006 //www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5612507/ and now is over $100, and rising. Why is this ND and CO oil not being exploited? //www.investmentu.net/ppc/t4oil-price2.cfm?kw=X300HB05 says it costs $13/barrel to get oil from the Canadian tar sands, so even at $30 or $40 a barrel ND an CO are too expensive. For the OIL COMPANIES to do anything about it. Screw the US consumer they seem to be saying, as they make record profits. Now you know how they're doing it!
As to the electric car...the article shows some artist's rendering and then states Nanosafe's Li-ion cells using nano titanate structures instead of traditional graphite give the GT an incredible 250-mile range, a full recharge time of only 10 minutes, and a life expectancy of 12 to 20 years, or 15,000 charge cycles before the battery performance drops significantly.
That is a HUGE leap forward in battery technology. And they is no way in hell you can charge them in 10 minutes - physics won't allow it unless your plugging into your local nuclear reactor! Electricity only flows so fast, and the faster it flows the more heat is generated. So their technology lasts 15 times longer and can be charged in 1/40 the time. Yeah right. Show me. You could put this battery tech to work and power a laptop for a week and recharge it in a minute!
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04/01/2008 05:16:27 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
I Electricity only flows so fast, and the faster it flows the more heat is generated. |
Yup, it flows about 186 million miles per second. No faster, no slower.
It does flow narrow and wide so to speak. Heat only builds up if you try to make it flow uphill in a very wide stream. :)
You'll notice I used the conditional word "if" in my statement about the batteries. Not that I don't think that this can not be accomplished in the future. RC modelers are now flying electric planes that can be recharged extremely fast. They are using Li Polymer Ion batteries. I believe that these will eventually scale very well for automobiles. (5 to 10 year time frame) So I expect if I live that long I'll see autos that will go 250 to 300 miles and recharge in about 30 minutes. I'd bet on Sheetz and other service stations with food facilities will do very well.
As far as the oil wells are concerned I know that in Texas, wells that hadn't pumped a barrel in decades are back in production again. High per barrel prices have enabled the use of steam injection technology to bring another 15 to 50 percent out of wells considered to be abandoned.
I still like battery news better. If the electricity used to charge the batteries is derived without releasing carbon we're ahead of the game!
I'm all for building about 150 to 200 new nuke plants in the US over the next 10 years.
Message edited by author 2008-04-01 17:17:28. |
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