Electric Car Driven by Rare Earth Metal-Free Motor #DigInfo

[ProtonRocket]

the problem is not to build a eletric car, it's the way we get the electricity.... there's 1 billion cars today, and if we had just 100 mi(10%) of eletric cars... there would be not enough energy. i live near a hidroeletric system and my month's bill it's 100 US$... (I don't have even a airconditioner....) such a shame.

[Benji19922]

who would dislike??? i mean other than redneck top fuel dragsters?

[mesothorium]

@Benji19922 people how see electricity still as verry nuclear dependant! thats who, olso i love my alfa to much

[Benji19922]

@mesothorium but wot about solar and wind? those two alone (especially here in australia) are more than enough to power and average humans lifestyle.

[mesothorium]

@Benji19922 becuz solar and wind are verry situational, not everywhere you can have both at max performance, hydro IS 100% optimal to use everywhere, and easy to recycle

[Benji19922]

@mesothorium i know about tidal power, but wot about desert country's? especially in the middle of them where there is no water....there is a lot of potential for solar production out there. as for wind, pair it up with hydro generators as there is usually constant wind near water.

[mesothorium]

@Benji19922 yes i am aware of that, but generally seen i think hydro is the way foreward, no matter what kind of enviroment you got, but indeed at desert area's you can use solar, downside is you have to have massive electrical switchover circuitery, thou im no electro mechanical engineer, just a mechanic...

[Benji19922]

@mesothorium fair call

[RealSlimEmre]

@mesothorium if hydro means hydrogen then I'm sorry to tell you that hydrogen is produced using electricity as well, and nuclear energy is one of the cleanest ways to produce electricity -- if only it wasn't so dangerous in case of an accident -- also it's better to use electric powered vehicles because the overall efficiency of the car along with the power plant that supplies its power is higher than regular internal combustion engines..

[mesothorium]

@RealSlimEmre it is indeed produced with the help of elec, as is everything tbh... but if i had a choice between electric cars or hydrogen* it would be hydro without a doubt, that effecienty is even higher compared to elec vs combustion, and is the most abundant element in the universe, thus no shortage , its hard to really make everything not dependant on ele, we have incorporated it in all of our daily life/machines our life actually, still im pro hydro

[RealSlimEmre]

@mesothorium for any heat engine the maximum efficiency is: 1- (Tc/Th) where Tc is the low temperature sink -- room temperature assume it's 27 degrees C which makes it 300 degrees kelvin -- and Th is the high temperature sink -- that is for internal combustion engine the temperature of combustion -- and for hydrogen the highest combustion Temp. is near 2300 degrees kelvin so the efficieny is 1- 300/2300 = 87 % so it's better to use electric (efficiency of more than 90% is not hard)

[RealSlimEmre]

@mesothorium but I've also got to add that hydrogen can be produced using biomass and it's produced now (in addition to using electricity) using natural gas, but still internal combustion engines are no where near the limit that I just mentioned so it could be a lot lower than that 87%, refer to this site if you like hydrogen so much it'll make you like it even more but I'm still pro electric almc.army.mil/alog/issues/MayJ­un00/MS492.htm

[RealSlimEmre]

@RealSlimEmre -- forgot to mention that "a lot lower" means around 20% more or less --

[Ertiyed]

I really wish I had the ability to enter tokyo university to study there hehe.

[mesothorium]

o god, not another prius shit box.... give us something not dependant on electricity !!

[fishermanmccoy43]

@mesothorium Are you kidding me? What would you rather it be dependent on??

[mesothorium]

@fishermanmccoy43 hydro thx, electricity is still verry much dependant on nuclear power so no thx, they have the knowledge to store hydro, so why bother with these electric cars? i dont know honestely, there horrid and badly made,and to expensive.

[tetranoob]

thank you dig info! I hadn't heard about switched reluctance motors before but it makes perfect sense. 

[WelcomeToCrystalLake]

I don't give a shit in no Electric car, give me the saltwater powered car.

[xamboozi]

@WelcomeToCrystalLake I want a car powered by baby rabbit tears.

[mikajmd]

What really needs to be re-invented is batteries as they will solve everything from laptops to cell phones to cars battery life. As an average smartphone will get 5 hours of use.

[alativalmis]

Electric cars are good and all, but what about the nuclear waste produced while making electricity?

[Absoluma]

@alativalmis There are others sources to get electricity.

[alativalmis]

@Absoluma I know but really the only successful one is Nuclear

[Absoluma]

@alativalmis What do you mean "successful"?

[houchi69]

serious need it. time to end the unnecessary conflict metals. 

[lilmario0]

autobot

[OpenTheTrollGate]

LOL TAKE THAT CHINA

[nisbahmumtaz909]

His head is fucking huge.

Explains this momentous discovery, though.

[MsHbX]

and this why its so expensive..

[Spetznaz]

the world needs it

[shalkana]

Well atleast it looks promising. If noise and vibration are it's biggest problems, the project is going really smooth then

[TheSwamo]

google chrome

[TheNanoCarbon]

v v v Tools v v v

[SyluxGT]

v v v forever alone v v v

[poodlelord]

4th

[andrenegwer]

3rd hajahaha

[killerdude117]

that's cool i guess