Posted on 09/21/2006 8:51:08 AM PDT by Malsua
The Innovation: A ceramic power source for electric cars that could blow away the combustion engine
The Disrupted: Oil companies and carmakers that don't climb aboard
Forget hybrids and hydrogen-powered vehicles. EEStor, a stealth company in Cedar Park, Texas, is working on an "energy storage" device that could finally give the internal combustion engine a run for its money -- and begin saving us from our oil addiction. "To call it a battery discredits it," says Ian Clifford, the CEO of Toronto-based electric car company Feel Good Cars, which plans to incorporate EEStor's technology in vehicles by 2008.
EEStor's device is not technically a battery because no chemicals are involved. In fact, it contains no hazardous materials whatsoever. Yet it acts like a battery in that it stores electricity. If it works as it's supposed to, it will charge up in five minutes and provide enough energy to drive 500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity. At today's gas prices, covering that distance can cost $60 or more; the EEStor device would power a car for the equivalent of about 45 cents a gallon.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
For this to work, it would have to be at temps approaching 0 degrees Kelvin?
From FReepers who have heavy investments in the petroleum sector.
I'm perhaps months away from my technology that will harness the power of the windbags in Congress. Cheap, abundant energy as long as you don't need it in August or between Thanksgiving and New Years Day.
Shalom.
Is it a Flux Capacitor?
Have you ever seen a large capacitor discharge catastrophically?
That's just what I want in all the cars that I see on the road.
Energy is energy. Look at all the BTU's burned on the road in the US on a daily basis and try to make that up with the equivalent amount of electrical energy to charge the capacitors. Can you say lots more power plants operating 24 hours a day?
Energy is a shell game. You don't get it for free.
I don't think that we will ever eliminate a refueling depot of some sort be it gasoline, ethonal, hydrogen, electricity, whatever.
Interestingly enough, it charges in 5 minutes at a cost of about $9 in electricity. At 600 volts, how many amps would you need?
If we define capacitors in three categories, standard, super and ultra. I would say this falls into the super capacitor range. They seemed to have solved some of the problems inherent to using capacitors for storage, but it will require testing to verify.
Here is another take on it based upon someone else's review of the patent.
http://ipdiscover.com/pipermail/newcandle_ipdiscover.com/2006-March/000480.html
Well, DUH! How do you think they made those 0-60 claims???
;)
Shalom.
9$ in 5 minutes? Sounds lie you'll need 440 3-phase in every home to charge this sucker. My arc welder won't draw 9$ worth of electricity in a an hour.
It's a ceramic ultracapacitor with a barium titanate dielectric.
Battery power as good as gas?
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1141599010468&call_pageid=970599109774&col=Columnist971715454851
Mar. 6, 2006
Yeah but you still need gas to get that sucker up to 88 MPH.
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A lot of energy. However, this would likely increase our base load with most charging done at night while our usage is low. That greatly helps nuclear plants and large coal plants and becomes less economical for Natural Gas.
That's the element that adds substance to this article.
Having worked on TVs back in the day and industrial lasers currently, yes. Nasty.
And I agree, energy is a shell game. I'd like for us to have a blended approach that will eliminate the need to import oil from tin pot dictators, islamowhackos and unstable regimes.
If these folks can pull it off, more power to 'em.
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