On 14 May 2021 at 9:12, jim--- via EV wrote:
> A 3 KW solar array would hardly make a dent at my house.
I read years ago that when you're considering a PV system, the first step is
to review your energy use and find where you can reduce it. Obviously the
more you can cut it, the less your syst
Peter VanDerWal said:
> My 3kw solar array paid for itself years ago. It produces all of the energy
> used in my house
> for heating, cooling, cooking, etc. as well as 1/2 the energy used by my
> vehicles.
I wish. A 3 KW solar array would hardly make a dent at my house. My about 9
KW array c
What do you mean when you say “practical”?
- Mark
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> On May 14, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Peter VanDerWal via EV wrote:
>
>
>>
>> If future true carbon neutral is "handwaving", then I'd love to hear your
>> proposal for long-distance air travel? What have you go
> If future true carbon neutral is "handwaving", then I'd love to hear your
> proposal for long-distance air travel? What have you got?
>
Blimps. Takes a lot longer to get there, but it's very efficient. You could
probably even make it solar powered.
However, I agree that bio fuels are probab
My 3kw solar array paid for itself years ago. It produces all of the energy
used in my house for heating, cooling, cooking, etc. as well as 1/2 the energy
used by my vehicles.
With the rediculously low price on PV cells recently, I bought enough to zero
out the energy used by my vehicles.
My P
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Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 12:35:49 -0700
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If future true ca
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There are many more “problems” with
Yep, gas and electricity might be about equal for heating, but with a
heatppump AND investing in home solar, you can lock in your home heat
forever.Renewable adn cheaper in the logn run.
Bob
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> On 9 May 2021 at 14:38, Jim Walls via
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>> There are 3 major types of flying to consider: (1) VTOL (mainly
>> helicopters), (2) re
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On 9 May 2021 at 18:30, Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
I've seen a prototype reactor (high pressure, high temp, with a
catalyst)
I'm all for snagging energy from the waste stream, b
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There are 3 major types of flying to consider: (1) VTOL (mainly
helicopters), (2) regional flights up to 600 miles (more than 1/2 of all
commercial flights are within 600 miles), and (3) long distance flights,
more
On 9 May 2021 at 12:35, (-Phil-) via EV wrote:
> If future true carbon neutral is "handwaving", then I'd love to hear your
> proposal for long-distance air travel? What have you got?
Sorry if I offended, I didn't mean to.
What I mean by hand-waving (though this definition is a bit rough):
www.
On 9 May 2021 at 18:30, Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
> I've seen a prototype reactor (high pressure, high temp, with a
> catalyst)
I'm all for snagging energy from the waste stream, but pressure and heat
require energy input. Where will it come from? And how does that input
compare with the en
Well, natural gas may be cheaper at present, but it is neither sustainable
nor clean
On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 3:36 PM Jim Walls via EV wrote:
> On 05/09/2021 12:37, Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote (in part):
> > My case in point is over the last couple of years we have switched from
> natural gas for
On 9 May 2021 at 14:38, Jim Walls via EV wrote:
> I heat my house, make hot water, and cook (except for the microwave)
> with natural gas. I can do all that for less than electric heating one room
> part time. I'm in no hurry to move away from natural gas for making heat.
I have two reactions
This is, and I think, will be changing. Technology moves forward.
- Mark
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> On May 9, 2021, at 10:18 AM, Peter VanDerWal via EV wrote:
>
> May 8, 2021 10:10 AM, "(-Phil-) via EV" wrote:
>
>> From what research I've done, I believe BioFuels are a better
On 05/09/2021 12:37, Lawrence Rhodes via EV wrote (in part):
My case in point is over the last couple of years we have switched from natural
gas for heating and cooking. It was the pandemic and we drove much less but
with the use of electric space heaters, induction cooking, heat pump clothes
There are 3 major types of flying to consider: (1) VTOL (mainly
helicopters), (2) regional flights up to 600 miles (more than 1/2 of all
commercial flights are within 600 miles), and (3) long distance flights,
more than 600 miles.
For the first two types, battery powered electric aircraft (like th
Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
Biofuels don't have to be made from crops. We have an enormous waste
stream with high carbon content. Imagine a process to convert that into
methane and oil, which could then be reused to produce virgin plastic.
Or fuel jet planes.
I seem to recall that Brazil makes
No transition fuel needed. As people who use energy realize the cost factor
fossil fuel will die and renewables will thrive. My case in point is over the
last couple of years we have switched from natural gas for heating and cooking.
It was the pandemic and we drove much less but with the use o
If future true carbon neutral is "handwaving", then I'd love to hear your
proposal for long-distance air travel? What have you got?
Right now until we have something like fusion, There isn't any current tech
that can handle it. People aren't just going to stop flying.
The only path I can see ri
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May 8, 2021 10:10 AM, &qu
On 5/9/21 12:00 PM, Peter VanDerWal via EV wrote:
Advantages of this system:
Less resources used for batteries (vs BEVs)
Less resources used for ICE generators (vs Hybrids)
Better vehicle efficiency for normal (non-extended use) since you'll be
carrying around less weight
All of which result
> Finally, a BEV is mechanically much simpler and at least theoretically more
> reliable than an ICEV, let alone a hybrid with the complexity of both. I
> haven't run the numbers, but intuitively, manufacturing a BEV has to be less
> carbon intensive than manufacturing a hybrid, and it should have
May 8, 2021 10:10 AM, "(-Phil-) via EV" wrote:
> From what research I've done, I believe BioFuels are a better stop gap than
> H2.
Perhaps some day this will be true. However, the major 'biofuel' we produce in
the USA is ethanol and numerous studies indicates that the way we produce
ethanol u
I don’t remember the technology.
The switch from H2 to gasoline and back was seamless.
It was never made available to the public. It was only for technology
demonstrations.
- Mark
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> On May 9, 2021, at 1:57 AM, Bill Dube via EV wrote:
>
> Ah. Direct inj
Ah. Direct injection H2. (Essentially a Diesel engine running hydrogen.)
Thus, the low octane (MON) doesn't matter.
Most definitely not a converted vehicle.
100 of these vehicles produced in total. This beast got only 16.9 MPG on
gas, 4.7 MPG on H2.
On 5/9/2021 3:07 PM, Mark Abramowitz via EV
Well, yes - why would you want an internal combustion engine running on
hydrogen?
I don’t know the answer, but at one time BMW thought it was a good idea. I
drove the result of their work - a bi-fueled series 8, and loved driving it (it
was *not* a disappointment), but why?
Sure, reduced em
Gasoline engines are designed to run best on gasoline. They can barely
be converted to run on H2.
In a nutshell, H2 has an extremely low motor octane number (MON) of
about 60, and the compression must be reduced so much that the engine
makes very little power. The low charge density is a furth
Certainly H2 makes no sense for most transportation or most
heating/cooking. But it appears to have potential for long term energy
storage (days, weeks, or months), and for long range aviation and rocket
fuel, although in the latter cases it would probably be better to combine
H2 from electrolysis
ral gas.
Peri
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On 8 May 2021 at 10:10, (-Phil-) via EV wrote:
> Biofuels can at least be carbon neutral, as you can close the
> carbon cycle. It will take a long way to get there of course, as the
> complete biofuel production cycle is also still a carbon intensive
> operation, but this can be fixed over time.
(-Phil-) via EV wrote:
From what research I've done, I believe BioFuels are a better stop
gap than H2.
H2 is a boondoggle. I just can't find a use case that makes sense,
it's poor systemic efficiency, and super-high infrastructure cost
take it out of consideration.
I'm worried that the use c
From what research I've done, I believe BioFuels are a better stop gap than
H2.
H2 is a boondoggle. I just can't find a use case that makes sense, it's
poor systemic efficiency, and super-high infrastructure cost take it out of
consideration.
We'll still need some kind of energy dense solution
Resending... didn't go through.
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Sent: 07-May-21 6:27:44 PM
Subject: opinion article on hydrogen
This article claims that producing hydroge
This article claims that producing hydrogen will remain too expensive
and therefore people will continue to choose to use natural gas if there
isn't an electric alternative. It also mentions the poor efficiency of
producing it.
Using hydrogen fuel risks locking in reliance on fossil fuels,
re
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