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- Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:44 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: News thread political tangent
- Replies: 30
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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...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:38 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: and some more eestor news
- Replies: 65
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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...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: and some more eestor news
- Replies: 65
- Views: 30749
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 ...
- Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:02 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: and some more eestor news
- Replies: 65
- Views: 30749
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...
- Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:53 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: SpaceX finally reaches orbit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7998
- Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:45 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: and some more eestor news
- Replies: 65
- Views: 30749
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 "...
- 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...