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Subject: [OM] Re: OT - electric cars
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:02:48 -0400
Think outside the box.  240 KILO volts.  :-)

On a more serious note, lightweight capacitor storage units might be 
more readily exchanged than 1,000 pound batteries.

Chuck Norcutt


Brian Gray wrote:

> Chuck Norcutt wrote
> 
> <On the 1,000 pound battery front I was reading of a truly exiciting
> potential within the last couple of weeks to use capacitor storage with
> a new breed of capacitors based on nano technology.  Huge surface areas
> of nano tubes would make very large, lightweight capacitors possible.
> Recharging could be extremely fast unlike a chemical battery.>
> 
> I cannot imagine that recharging would ever be as fast as pumping the 
> same amount of energy as petrol.  I think we are talking of several 
> tens of kilowatt-hours to recharge the batteries - domestically in 
> the UK, only the circuit for an electric cooker normally comes 
> anything like the 10kw rating which would correspond to an hour for 
> every 10 kilowatt hour (ie a 40 amp circuit in the UK at 240 
> Volts).  More likely, for long distance use, such cars might have to 
> change battery packs like stage coaches changed horses!  Urban use is 
> a different matter.



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