EV with onboard generator

[Piotrsko]

Some of LA smog issues were generally accepted to be caused by capturing oxides of nitrogen (others compounds too) and not allowing it to escape the basin the city is located in. Stop forming or better yet, ridding the exhaust of various compounds in more vehicles than your whole country has proved the be beneficial to the area's air quality. When I was last in LA on my trip to OZ, you could see the edges of the basin, and all of LA from the airport, unthinkable when I lived there 30+ years ago.

My 66 buick got 13 mpg. The smog choked(?) F250 gets 25 with 50% more engine displacement and the aero of a truck and I don't need to wrench on it

[Logic]

While this got the std Not available at WalMart' reaction when mentioned elsewhere, I feel that a potential power source that is:

• Over 40% efficient
• Has no moving parts.
• Is silent.
• Scales down to small outputs without losing efficiency like engines do.

Is worth keeping an eye on!? Perhaps even investing in?

Basically:
Solar cells are inefficient because sunlight is a whole spectrum of frequencies.
If it were all one frequency solar cells could be tuned to that frequency and efficiency, of the solar part, goes up to 90% or something.

The idea here is to add Sodium (table salt) to a flame/burner so that most all the light is one frequency.
Then surround the burner with tuned solar cells.
(Remember Sodium Vapor Bulbs? Apparently Sodium is great at turning heat into light. Lots of electron orbital hopping)

https://lightcellenergy.com/

The old thread with videos etc:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthre...ent-41763.html

[Logic]

Originally Posted by Logic

Obrist HyperHybrid – range-extended electric vehicle powertrain
Whats clever here is that Obrist can use a LOT of fuel saving piston offset as the 2 counter rotating engines exactly cancel out each others vibration.

MAHLE Range Extender Vehicle

ZF range extender system; production starts in 2026

Seems KnobGear is reading my posts here!?
Their patent is null and void because this concept is open sourced by the above post..?

They've 'forgotten' ...er... one or two things that would save a LOT of fuel, haven't they..?

Clever is the std flywheel on the one shaft, with alternator/flywheel on the other.
That minimizes stress on the synchronizing gear teeth, without the inefficiency and cost of 2 half size alternators.

I wonder about their "quieter" claim:
When you think about a std small genset; how much of the vibration is turned into noise..?
Efforts to improve noise with larger, better or extra mufflers dont seem terribly effective..?

[freebeard]

What was the date of your original post? Where is there mention of the patent being nullified and voided?

[Logic]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

20 minutes when going up mountain passes, which tractor/trailers do routinely.

Which they do slowly ATM. So nothing changes.

I assume charge stations at the top of the hill are a thing there, so EV drivers can be impatient..?
Then the truck rolls past you while you're charging, so you can get shoot past imperiously (What a feeeliiing!) twice!

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I liked the turbine engine genset idea proposed for garbage trucks. It's compact, efficient, and low maintenance/highly reliable.

It looks like Big Oil/Car has the rules and regulations all sewn up tight, so NO ONE 'small' can afford to get it on the road!

A good eg as their emissions laws are 'from' the US:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bzTacdlpR8&t=129s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loM4bwKXIr0

etc:
https://www.youtube.com/@EdisonMotors/videos


Pay with one hand; get it back with the other:

Duck A.I.
Overview of Oil Drilling Subsidies

Oil drilling companies in the United States receive significant financial support through various subsidies. These subsidies are designed to lower production costs and encourage domestic energy production.
Types of Subsidies
Direct Financial Incentives

Intangible Drilling Costs (IDCs): Companies can immediately deduct most of their drilling-related expenses from their taxable income.

Percentage Depletion Allowance: This allows producers to deduct a fixed percentage (up to 15%) of their gross income from oil and gas properties.

Royalty Relief: Reduces or waives royalties that companies must pay for extracting oil and gas on federal lands.

Tax Breaks
Exploration and Development Costs: Independent producers can deduct these costs in the year they are incurred, while integrated companies can deduct a portion immediately and the rest over time.

Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs): These allow energy companies to avoid corporate income taxes by structuring as partnerships.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Logic

I assume charge stations at the top of the hill are a thing there, so EV drivers can be impatient..?

It looks like Big Oil/Car has the rules and regulations all sewn up tight, so NO ONE 'small' can afford to get it on the road!

Oil drilling companies in the United States receive significant financial support through various subsidies. These subsidies are designed to lower production costs and encourage domestic energy production.

Chargers at tops of hills don't make sense because there needs to be sufficient available capacity in the battery to regen back down the other side. Bottom of the hill makes more sense.

Politicians have a near perfect record of passing regulation without knowing a single thing about the science, technology, environmental impact, and economic impact of the thing they are regulating. Our plastic grocery bags now contain 10x the plastic of our previous ones because it's illegal to provide "disposable" plastic bags in grocery stores in Oregon. Now I'm filling my garbage can with useless plastic bags, and have to buy trash can liners because I can no longer obtain the so-called non-reusable bags.

We probably should be encouraging domestic production, mostly by cutting red tape, and eliminate much of the subsidy. All corporate taxes should be eliminated because corporations don't pay tax; consumers do (they pay all expenses incurred by all businesses).