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Lets be honest as well as pragmatic. The existing infrastructure, as you already know, evolved over the last 120 years. It's generally speaking old and needs constant repair and replacement of components.

That's a far cry from embarking on any complete replacement and you KNOW that. There are portions that are remarkably efficient already, especially hydroelectric, but then you have the inevitable environmental issues. Many decades ago legislation provided incentives for small scale hydro, but those incentives died in the legal quagmire of species extinction, and environmental destruction, even though the most reliable power available is hydro and the only cost effective way to store electrical energy is in elevated water reservoirs.

Wind turbines kill birds, so I guess they are dead, right? Every other power generation method has consequences which in a litigious society like ours makes innovation an extraordinarily difficult pursuit, which creates long tern nightmares for utilities decades after implementation.

The panic over oil related pollution while we have passed the peak (supposedly) in consumption creates hatred for the US, the ultimate glutton for fuel of every type, and an attitude of why should I be penalized with astronomical costs while you were not (the US). Why should I freeze because the hypocritical US now decides that my actions will kill the planet, which theirs have done for over a century.

Demonstrate some objectivity and at least try to understand my solution has a place. It earns this place becasue it is avaialble now, does not reuqire any further "predicted advancements" which have little basis in fact. The manufacturers of vehicles move at a snails pace in advancement compared to the predicted revolutionary innovation just around the corner.

While idealism certainly has it's place, claiming a dream is reality destroys credibility. Without long term destructive testing and marathon driving in real world scenarios, people just become so pessimistic you end up with the biblical "boy who cried wolf" scenario.

I've been around the block a few thousand times. I see my wifes Sorento get mileage that was just about identical to my 59 Bug Eyed Sprite, a car the weighed 1/3 of the Sorento's weight with 40% of the displacement. The Sorento gets about the same mileage as my 99 Maxima.

To claim that any battery will last well beyond 10 years requires absolute proof for credibility. With the average car on the road at 11 years age today, Neil, that means over half of your electric cars will be out of warranty, their range will be significantly reduced, and the failure of a major component will mean the scrap yard, just as it does with any other car on the road today. The only reason the warranty is 10 years is becasue California required it to be that long for the cars to be sold there, so the manufacturers just passed the cost on to the customer, or risked bankruptcy.

That's not a new battery. It's a repaired battery that will never last as long as the original since most of it's components will still be original, just as the engine block is original on a rebuilt engine, except the remaining battery packs that were not replaced are not far behind the ones that were replaced.

Maybe within a year I will buy a Leaf at a salvage auction and rebuild it for less than half the new cost. It looks pretty promising from the one in the link I provided. I've provided links for a lot of things that have been ignored, and their relevance is factual and my doubts are founded in a practical lifetime of real experience working on cars for over 45 years.

Imagine today if every car on the road was electric, with todays technology, the tow trucks would make a fortune picking up dead batteries and towing them to charging points. It will be decades before that is resolved and the cost will be substantial. You still can not drive from my hosue to Washington DC, 165 miles, without a recharge.

Someone has to pay the bill, the manufacturers distributors and installers don't take monopoly money.

While you can calculate the amount of avaialbe energy for solar and wind, and you can estimate the cost per KWH, many areas of the country do not have the best concentration of those resources, and the number of people who can spend tens of thousands of dollars, upgrading their house (while the value is dropping like a rock) are few a far between.

I could write a check tomorrow for a $30,000 solar array for my house, but it would never come close to providing all of the energy we consume, much less all of the energy for an electric car, which would add about 50% to our consumption. We have hurricanes and power outages, so what is the solution for that?

We blather on about new sources of energy, new methods of applying energy, new this, new that, ad stupidium.

My design makes things significantly more efficient NOW, with todays technology. It can be implemented immediately and provide real benefits without any need for a "break even point of any sort" It utilizes the energy we already have more efficiently, jsut as the best hypermilers utilize their energy more efficiently.

Right now, not some time in the future, when the rest of society has slowly crawled to the point we see in the future, with absolutely no negative effect or cost.

It does not exclude any advancement you can imagine or claim, any advancement that becomes reality, at any time in the future, will only serve to make the whole system more efficent.

It even requires no controller to modulate the power from the battery to the motor, just a simple switch to turn it on or off to maintain capacitive storage (assuming your "fuel" is electricity).

As dcb posted in the thread about transmissions and his graph demonstrate, electric cars are more efficient with some form of transmission. It absolutely has to be efficient and reliable, but more improtant than both of those, it has to be cost effective, or people will jsut keep driving their old cars spewing out many times the pollution the could if they just bought new cars. My design works with batteries and electric motors. It could extend the range of a Leaf by as much as 50%, right now. It does this by eliminating the periods of operation where efficiency could be improved.

Read and learn or fail to understand and join the masses of those who have no ideas or the perseverance to see them to fruition. Someone else will read this post and understand, and thats good enough for me.

reagrds
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