Warren Buffett And Elon Musk To Spark A Lithium Boom

Oilprice.com ^ | 28-07-2015 | Dave

[familyop]

"Make sure you read the post in that link that discuss the power delivery system required to make that claim a reality."

Are you referring to the claim that such a capacitor could be charged very quickly because of a lack of internal resistance? If so, I would still be more concerned about the cost of an array for running a car as compared to a lithium array of the same usable charge value. It could be charged over a period of hours.

I'm not personally drawn to using an electric car, by the way, because of the extreme cold, long distances to services, steep passes and no nearby grid power to hook up to here. But if an electric car were developed to be cost effective in the more temperate and level lowlands, I'd be in favor of that for folks in such places.

If I were forced to build an electric vehicle now, I'd probably take a good look at AGM batteries first (low internal resistance, safety and probably still less expensive than lithium).

[familyop]

Here’s what I like about Elon Musk, by the way. I don’t have a use for an electric vehicle here, yet, but open source equipment design for a more distributed, productive and strong economy will be a much better fit for fiscal and moral conservatism.

All Our Patent Are Belong To You
Elon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014
http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

[thackney]

I am referring to the claim of the very quick charge.

While the capacitor may be capable of it, the energy delivery system to the capacitor won’t be capable of that much power.

[Larry Lucido]

"I picked the wrong week to give up lithium."

[familyop]

Yes. That’s true, and spending on infrastructure changes won’t be a political priority.

[thackney]

The utility grid is not the problem, it would be the connection to the car from the grid. The grid can handle that.

But your home or charging station is not going to be set up for 1,000 to 5,000 amps per car for a 5 minute charge.

[familyop]

"The utility grid is not the problem, it would be the connection to the car from the grid. The grid can handle that."

In my area on the Rockies, 1.5 gigawatts of extra pull would do the grid real good. It goes down with quite a bit less heat than that in the coils. ;-)

"But your home or charging station is not going to be set up for 1,000 to 5,000 amps per car for a 5 minute charge."

That's true. There's no grid power to my home. But many of the other homes around here have some whopper transformers on the ground in front of them. Those political/regulator parasites would up-size in a heartbeat just to be groovy. And government-fed socialists are the majority of utility investors here by far. There's no private sector production. ;-)

[familyop]

I’m probably the only man in favor of uranium exploration for many miles here. Also probably the only one who would want feasible natural gas production without monstrous commie fees, too.

But all of that’s going to have to wait until after the end of the default process, many more foreclosures and much rotting of palatial, government-funded houses.