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by Skipjack
Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: News thread political tangent
Replies: 30
Views: 18683

The problem with bio fuels is that you need a lot (read A LOT) of farmland to supply a country like the US with the fuel that it uses. Further, biofuel is not quite as ecological as is widely believed and then there is the social economic problem that many, especially poor countries turn their farmi...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: and some more eestor news
Replies: 65
Views: 30747

With golf class, I meant Volkswagen Golf, not golf cart (that would be ridiculous). Golf class is what we call the cars of the same size as a Volkswagen Golf here. I am sorry, I was falsly assuming that this would be internationally understood. Ok, I missunderstood, of course that is if I hit the ga...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: and some more eestor news
Replies: 65
Views: 30747

Ok, please forgive me, I was under the assumption that the EESU would be in some kind of casing as well... Maybe not though? The articles stated nowhere that the encasement for the battery was part of the weight given here (in contrary given a powerdensity per Kg made it appear silly to assume that ...
by Skipjack
Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:02 am
Forum: General
Topic: and some more eestor news
Replies: 65
Views: 30747

Dont get me wrong, I am not saying that this is not a grea thing, it just seems that it does need a lot more weight to store the samte amount of energy. Yes, it would be smaller, but that does not help the weight much. You still need to move the extra weight which requires more power. The cat is bit...
by Skipjack
Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: SpaceX finally reaches orbit
Replies: 12
Views: 7998

Awesome work by Musk and his team. Very exciting indeed, even though not revolutionary, they did an awesome job!
Lets hope the best for them in the future, but I think that now things are only going to "go up" ;)
by Skipjack
Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:45 pm
Forum: General
Topic: and some more eestor news
Replies: 65
Views: 30747

hello Problem is, that even if their numbers are correct, the energy density of their energy storage is still much less than in gasoline. If you assume a 40 kg tank (which should equal a full gasoline tank in a smaller vehicle), then according to them you would get 18 KW/h of energy stored in this "...
by Skipjack
Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: An Introduction
Replies: 3
Views: 5726

An Introduction

Hello! I am new to this board and wanted to introduce myself before I start hounting threads here. I have been lurking arround here for a while and finally decided to sign up. I am from Austria and not a native English speaker, so please forgive me if I make one or the other mistake. I do not have a...