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Maybe that the reason that my Power Tank hasn't given me much of a problem. It is the same battery design as the ones in my basic pack. My bike was manufactured (in November 2017) right before the battery pack capacity was slightly increased - as I recall.
why not alcohol? It's waste gasses are not too bad. The whole CO2 BS needs to go away. I can get the not wanting hydrocarbons because of the nox and sox but CO2 is a given for even you being alive.
What if they had a barge, a large ocean going one, it had a lower profile, hauled stuff, it's entire deck top was solar panels. Morning time, it charged up a little bit at night using wave action, to lift an anchor, then used the panels to push a motor on a propeller to drive it towards whichever destination it was heading. when night came, it dropped anchor to sit where it ended up at, unless the prevailing winds would ultimately push it towards it's end destination even further, at which time it'd just keep drifting naturally.. While sitting it could use wave generators to make electricity by the up and down on the waves to charge a battery. come next day, do it all over again, during bad weather / cloudy days, it'd just charge it's battery, you could put wind generators on it too, not stupid tall ones but smaller ones along the deck to gather any wind that might be going too. Perhaps every 10 miles or so you could have a small platform it could anchor / moor to, like stopping points, or every 50 miles, whatever works, if needed or for emergency docking. have enough of these on a planned route to put these barges between countries on planned shipping routes. You could have enough of them running that if it took a few days more to get somewhere, no big deal. It'd essentially burn zero fuel except what it made on it's own.
when it gets wherever, unload, put new stuff to go back and send it back. put a few dozen people on it, or even just a few with some rockets to fight off pirates, a keg of beer, some weed, a box of doritos, and you are good to go ! Throw in a fishing pole and they are loyal to the end! Catch dinner, and perhaps some extra fish to sell when they get back in port, a bit of a trip bonus!
Hell sign me up, Ill be the first one to test pilot the HMS UnicornPhart.
Aaron
still putting way more energy into it than they ever would recover back when converting back to electricity. Not to mention the inherent danger. Everyone cries when a lithium battery turns into a blow torch, what do they think a hydrogen tank is going to when it's breached?
Aaron
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Hydro storage only works because it does the same thing with a BILLION times more weight, and even then, it's incredibly inefficient and only suitable for conserving small amounts in situations where there is massive overproduction.
Another one was pumping water up into a storage shed of some sorts, whether it was a lake, a levy or just a high towar, then when needed let the water out to run a turbine. Not the most efficient ways to store energy, but I guess would work in a pinch. But one has to ask, can't the energy be used in better ways?
Why not a cold bank, freeze bricks, and then say a big refrigeration plant, for storing meat or something, run fluid thru the cold bricks to get cold, th en the walls of the freezer to keep the stuff cold at night, while the sun recharges it during the day with solar powering the reefers to re cool it. But what about those drizzly weeks we get/
The biggest question is how much does all this cost? Especially compared to just using electricity, or getting a regular battery or supercap. ROI on life cycles type thing?
All this stuff sounds cool but is it feasable? Global warming is BS just like the Carbon crap is but they will never stop using it to separate fools from their money.
Im selling you a house, and you MUST have this poofty stuff on it. It WILL cost you an extra 100k, but don't worry! You can finance it with your house and it's only an extra 200 a month... for 30 years. you can't always pass on the price of your dreams to your customers.
Aaron
More recently I have seen the same fault codes come back (0020 & 0028) after riding in heavier rain, but they seem to go away after a time, presumably after drying out. Has anyone else ended up just deciding to live with intermittent fault codes?
