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To: 300magnum
meaning a motorist could plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip between Dallas and Houston without gasoline.

480 miles at a generous 30MPG = 16 gallons of gas.
1 gallon = 1.3x10^8 Joules x 16 gal.= 2.1x10^9.
At 25% eff that's a total of 5x10^8 Joules/Watts required for the trip.

In five minutes? Doesn't seem likely to me.

34 posted on 09/04/2007 11:15:51 AM PDT by OSHA (Liberals will lick the boot on their necks if they think the other boot is on yours and mine.)
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To: OSHA

A car using this technology would get about the equivalent to more than 100 MPG. Gasoline engines are very inefficient. But yes, they are claiming a very high energy density.


60 posted on 09/04/2007 11:39:06 AM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: OSHA

Add to that analysis this:

A megajoule is about the energy contained in one stick of dynamite going off.

The reason why gasoline doesn’t explode like dynamite in a crash is that it is difficult to achieve the correct air:fuel mixture in the crash. Hot conflagration? Oh, yea. Explosion? Not quite.

5x10^8 joules into a short circuit?

There’s gonna be some fireworks.


65 posted on 09/04/2007 11:47:07 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: OSHA

Think of it as a lighting bolt on Quaaludes.


92 posted on 09/04/2007 12:33:35 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: OSHA
480 miles at a generous 30MPG = 16 gallons of gas. 1 gallon = 1.3x10^8 Joules x 16 gal.= 2.1x10^9. At 25% eff that's a total of 5x10^8 Joules/Watts required for the trip.

In five minutes? Doesn't seem likely to me.

Maybe it could but my impression was you plug this in at home and if it could draw that much power it will quickly pop your breakers. How do those numbers translate in KWHs, the measure we pay for in our electric bill?

197 posted on 09/05/2007 5:45:06 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
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