Right, I mean the battery need only to allow the vehicle to move on the highway, while the LENR engine is cold...
I don't know well the power need of cars. I just look at current hybrid cars power to get reasonable values. 25kW when running cold is a good news. I assume this mean that when engine is cold the driver have to keep cool ? maybe this even mean that you could design the car to need only 25kW on the highway ... the battery could help to peak 50kW peak power when overtaking highway are no more formula one rings for teenagers. this mean that the parallel hybrid would need : - a good turbine with 20% efficiency, and >25kW sustain power - a LENR reactor of >125kW thermal (25 hyperion cores, 250g Ni, 160g H, about 10L 200bar bottle , if scaling like hyperion-x5 25kW) - electric engine/generator of 25kW - battery of power 25kW, and capacity 5-15 minutes : 2-6kWh. by the way high power/capacity call for super-capacitors or maybe LiFePO4 batteries battery are no more a big problem , compared to electric dominant hybrid today. if using LiFePO4, less problem with cobalt, will be good for Kivu, rwanda and Congo 2012/1/9 Akira Shirakawa <shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com> > On 2012-01-09 18:24, Alain Sepeda wrote: > > - a smaller battery, with just 15 minute autonomy at full speed >> > > What do you mean for "full speed"? > > If it's "full power", then you might want to reconsider that. With about > 100 kW of peak power, the current Prius (or any other average mid-sized car > with about the same power) would require a 25 kWh battery to run for 15 > minutes at full speed in electric mode only. > > Cheers, > S.A. > >
