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Old 01-17-2016, 12:47 PM   #236 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by werefree View Post
At the company I used to work for we had a total of 244 ultra capacitors from maxwell 3000F each to drive diesel electric hybrid buses...

We passed peak oil in 2005.
Very interesting about the buses. Do you know what voltage they were wired for? In other words, what was their series and parallel configuration?

As far as peak oil, the US had a peak consumption in 2007. World consumption has not yet peaked as every recent year shows a steady increase.

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