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From: "Terry Blanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is this redesign a match made in heaven or what ?- perhaps the
continued
ravings of a single minded perfectionist who knows just-enough
to overlook
larger drawbacks?
You mean like traffic lights or the 405 at 5pm? Whatcha gonna
do when
the battcap's full? Like all turbines, windup and winddown are
time
consuming.
Well windup delay is true with large turbines, megawatt and up.
The smaller turbines used as turbochargers minimize this problem,
but I suspect you are correct that enough batteries need to be
there to get you through 30 minutes or so - of creeping along in
rush hour traffic without the need for constant short interval
powerups and downs. The Prius seems to have almost enough juice
for this now; and it is likely to be just another desing
consideration rather than a major problem (like the NIH-syndrome)
and that acronym is not "healthy" is it?
On our trains we dump it into a BFR (resistor).
Speaking of acronyms, I bet I can guess what the "BF" stands for
<g>
