On 6/26/2010 10:39 AM, Krypsis wrote:
> On 26/06/2010 8:45 PM, George wrote:
>> On 6/25/2010 8:27 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
>>> On 6/25/2010 5:49 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>> On 6/25/2010 10:43 AM, Krypsis wrote:
>>>>> On 26/06/2010 4:23 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/25/2010 8:13 AM, sf wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:47:51 -1000, > wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm not a big fan of hybrid technology - it's way too complicated.
>>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>>> important part is that it's an intermediate step between gas and
>>>>>>>> all
>>>>>>>> electric cars. Internal combustion and hybrid cars and fuel cell
>>>>>>>> cars
>>>>>>>> are not the future - all electric is. Well that's just my guess.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm not claiming hybrids are the future, but they are an excellent
>>>>>>> transition.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree with you there. Without them, the acceptance of all electric
>>>>>> would have taken a lot longer. The next couple of years will be big
>>>>>> years for all electric.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've heard that line since I was a little tacker! It isn't here yet
>>>>> and
>>>>> I doubt it ever will be. The hybrid compromise will be around for a
>>>>> long
>>>>> time yet and I know I won't be around to see widespread acceptance and
>>>>> use of full electric cars, even if I reach 100 years of age.
>>>>
>>>> Well, a lot would depend on what your current age is now, wouldn't it?
>>>> It's a rather odd attitude considering all the movement going on at
>>>> this
>>>> point in time. You must be confusing this with flying cars - those
>>>> won't
>>>> be coming out until at least 2017. :-)
>>>>
>>>> My guess is that a hundred years from now, people are going to find it
>>>> difficult to believe that we had to go to stations to fill up our cars
>>>> with such a dangerous, explosive, liquid fuel. The very idea will
>>>> probably scare them half to death - unless, of course, they're using
>>>> molten nuclear materials for their fuel. OTOH, they could be using
>>>> wolf/dog hybrids to power rubber wheeled sleds through a
>>>> post-apocalyptic landscape filled with zombies. :-)
>>>
>>> In other words people a hundred years from now will live in a smaller
>>> world where someone in Hartford doesn't date someone in New Haven, for
>>> example (electric cars don't have the range for that).
>>>
>>> I think that in the long run efficiency will be sacrificed for utility
>>> and they'll just make and burn hydrogen, which eliminates all of the
>>> shortcomings of battery electrics and with a suitable carburetor works
>>> fine in conventional gasoline engines besides.
>>>
>>>
>> Where will we get the hydrogen from? The usual method is electrolysis of
>> water. The oxygen-hydrogen bond is strong and takes energy we will get
>> from where to break it?
>
> Let me guess!!! Electricity????
>
> Do I pass?

No, because you knew what my question meant.

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> Krypsis
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