In a bettery future you'll be able to live life at your own pace, rather than at the average pace.
This will mean more action for those who feel under-stimulated, and less action for those who feel over-stimulated. Harry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jed Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <vortex-L@eskimo.com> > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 5:17 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]: "Bettery" on-the-way? > > >> Michel Jullian wrote: >> >>> Battery swapping has been mentioned, why not just empty the "gas" >>> station's full one into the car's empty one? >> >> That is what we have in mind when we talk about a "bank" of supercapacitors. >> >> With something like a lead-acid battery which takes a long time to >> recharge, swapping battery packs is probably a more practical >> technique. This is an old idea. I recall reading about schemes to >> swap batteries back as 1960s, in Popular Science. Compared to 1960, >> it would be easier and safer to implement a battery exchange scheme >> nowadays, now that we have RFID tags, computer networks and so on. I >> doubt that many people would steal the battery packs, any more than >> they steal propane tanks today. (No doubt a few drunk high school >> kids do steal propane tanks.) A battery pack might be damaged in an >> accident, but this sort of thing could easily be checked for with >> computer testing systems. The propane tanks are also dangerous when >> they have been damaged, so they are checked with automatic equipment >> to ensure safety. >> >> I think electric cars would be easier to implement than people >> realize, and most of the concerns about limited operating range are >> either unimportant, or they could easily be fixed. If the world had >> run short of oil back in 1960, you can be sure we would have >> implemented electric cars with battery exchanges by 1975, and >> everyone would take it for granted. >> >> - Jed >> >
