EcoTech-RMI & Efficient Cars

[fargonebewdy]

Power to weight ratio is always the decider in drag racing and easily understood. What is much less understandable is why Amory Lovins always equates "nuclear" with the super-tox uranium fuel cycle. The solution to cheap safe energy is the safe melt-down proof THORIUM LFTR REACTOR -only a 200 year storage period on the non-plutonium waste. No bombs!

Vested interests in Uranium and Bombs - that's whats fucking us up. Why isn't Amory agitating for the Thorium fuel cycle development HUH? HUH???

[Maglevspiritualgeek]

OMG I want this car so bad!!!

[violafinishda]

Free energy technology exists!But the Big corporations spend millions to ensure that information does not spread to the masses,Get a motor that needs no gas or electric input at LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM ,Big change is comming soon!

[tzbnks]

Fully electric cars like the Tesla Model S and roadster in conjunction with vehicles like the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf and Coda are 90% efficient. The torque in those cars are practically instantaneous and are the way of the future. Now if only people in apartments and condos could easily own one of those.

[AkinaGod]

@tzbnks Believe it or not but you could achieve similar numbers by converting what you already have. It won't be a sports car like the Tesla. But it will still run for a few hundred miles before needing a recharge. Often times you would actually gain money too depending on the car you have and how you go about parting it out, ie, getting rid fo engine, gas parts, etc.

[movewithtao]

@tzbnks

car coops are starting to tackle that one.  We have a great one in Vancouver, BC: cooperative auto network. I pay $2.50 an hour and $20c per km. That includes gas, insurance and repairs. They're getting a few electric cars soon to test and if all goes well electric cars will make up their fleet in a few years.

[ronaldreika]

i hope these guys r right. if they're right we'll need this technology faster than they can produce it. sounds like a possible mini revolution with a solution for unemployment. anything is better than it is right now. very infomative vid, tnx

[brownmokey]

This is bad ass. How soon can i invest in this?

[tcseeme]

Why does this guy keep talking about "moving the driver". The driver isn't going to go anywhere if the car doesn't move - unless he gets out and walks.

[movewithtao]

He's saying that 90% of the energy from gasoline is lost in the conversion to electricity in the engine and, from there, more is lost in idling, and heating the car and brake pads. With that 10% that's left, almost all of the energy is used to move the car as it's so heavy, where as a passenger is relatively light.

[tcseeme]

So why doesn't he say "moving the car"?

[AkinaGod]

@tcseeme He does, you just didn't understand how he said it.

[tcseeme]

@AkinaGod I understand it. I just think it's silly to talk about "moving the driver" when the driver is the lightest thing that has to be moved. In order to "move the driver" you need to move the car which is much heavier than the driver. Even a smart car weighs 1609 pounds.

[AkinaGod]

@tcseeme Yea but a smart car isn't very smart. I mean think about it. It only seats two people, has no trunk, and with that weight the best fuel mileage you can get out of an american version is only around 43 - 45 with gas saving technique driving. But back on moving the person, the reason he says that is because ultimately the purpose of it is for transportation. The car doesn't really need to go anywhere. The person does. And people are actually pretty heavy. average is around 150 lbs.

[tcseeme]

@AkinaGod The car -or whatever vehicle- does need to go somewhere if the person wants to get where he's going faster than human power could get him there. I only mentioned smart car because of its weight. It's a tiny little car but still weighs 1600 pounds. Much heavier than a person that weighs 150 pounds. Anyway, I just thought it was funny, he kept talking about moving the driver. If that's all you want to do, forget gas. What about some roller skates? Maybe a rickshaw? :D

[AkinaGod]

@tcseeme Europe has a 180 horse power jaguar that gets over 50 mpg with 4 passengers, a/c ON, big trunk, and luxery interior. That amazing considering that car weighs over 3500 lbs.

[MotownMoleman]

So if hybrid or electric vehicles are the future, why have European and Japanese automakers not lead the way? These nations have more expensive petrol prices; "greener" people/politics and better market demographics. Don't preach EV vehicles. They're a joke. America's job is not necessarily to lead the world in automotive innovation. Even if it was, it wouldn't be in something as ENVIABLE as EV.

[jason23296]

exactly Electric cars are a joke. Cold weather would kill these thing.

[dzhang78]

juscurious, your comment sounds very familiar... oh yeah, heard from IBM on PCs and Mckinsey on cell phones.....

[juscurious]

This guy is a total fraud. Believe me the car companies have thought about all of these things. They are super expensive! If these things were do easy people would have already thought of them. The weights of our current cars are much lighter than they used to be. Everyone knows this. Don't pay any attention to Lovins.

[Elvarks]

what's the point making such a car when only 3% of the population can afford it?

[JeepGuy099]

well as with everything thats new... prices go down!

[dzhang78]

your comment sounds very familiar... oh yeah, heard from IBM on PCs and Mckinsey on cell phones.....

[terry1919]

simple thermodynamics  the Carnot engine cycle 90% of the Chemical energy is WASTED HEAT...

[bigmouthblackface2]

ECO cars rule!

[cryptostorm]

im still puzzled as to why nobody has started work on a LP or NG hybrid car yet...

[fueltvfan]

it's a hybrid, gas/electric

[chisimwa]

What is the fuel is this car???

[bentdrum]

While the technology is very cool, it only addresses better fuel economy and improved emissions. It does not address the fact regardless of how a privately-owned car is powered major cities will remain clogged with them, demanding parking spots and continued road building and widening.

[shsnawada]

In one of his lectures, he advocated new urbanism and better land use, so its not as if he's all for superhighways.

[nabiliomaximo]

Go Amory go! You're light years ahead of everyone else.