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To: Yo-Yo

They’ll need to have a fire station every 10 miles along the roads these things ride on.


2 posted on 12/02/2022 11:10:34 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: ProudDeplorable
They’ll need to have a fire station every 10 miles along the roads these things ride on.

The Federal Railroad Administration has hot bearing detectors along sections of track. The are present to alert a train crew of a bearing burn-off. A lower tech approach uses embedded stink bombs on the bearing that light off when the bearing burns. If you don't detect and stop, the bearing burn off can cause a derailment.

My research project put bearing temperature detection on each bearing adapter and used an 802.11b network with an OLSR mesh network to send a warning to the locomotive engineer. Continuous monitoring instead of fixed locations that often miss the burn off before it causes a derailment. My program evaporated the morning after Obama was inaugurated in January 2009.

5 posted on 12/02/2022 11:20:29 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: ProudDeplorable

An 11,000 pound lithium incendiary bomb. The fireball will be spectacular.


44 posted on 12/02/2022 12:22:38 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: ProudDeplorable

What is the cost? What is the cost of a battery replacement?
How long to charge and at what cost? Trucks are parked everywhere and not at a charging station for hours or days.
If in an accident the battery pack cannot be repaired.
One bad battery cell equals a big bad fire and a dead trucker.


61 posted on 12/02/2022 3:18:26 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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