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Post by 2stroked on Oct 1, 2017 20:55:16 GMT -5
I do believe that I would rather be the " schmuck" running his 15 year old fossil running fossil fuel, than the duche nozzle that's burning through a new chemical battery pack every 18 months.
Fact: everyone accepts what people do to rental cars, but how many people treat a lease the same way? Tons. So that means the returned EV has been trashed thrashed and beat to hell and back, all within miles according to lease papers. The battery has been ran dead and charged close to its top numbers.
Fact: Around here anyway, unless you drop the serious coin I to rewiring your home and adding the proper conditioned power source, the battery is getting " dirty power " that's potentially not good for it.
If I drive my fifteen year old four banger and take care of it, keep it tuned and running right, its emissions are still most likely near today's standards. Many States enforce this.
Far as I am considered EVs are a luxury that doesn't have a serious shelf life, and local projected sales are so bleak many dealerships don't even carry the full pkuv and tug EVs. They do however carry those dirty ole ICE powered cars trucks vans and SUVs.
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Post by AtariGuy on Oct 1, 2017 22:54:15 GMT -5
Human beings (as a species, not individually) world wide either are or want to be - prideful, wasteful, powerful, self-centered, and ignorant of what strain we cause future generations.
I am not pointing fingers at ANY individual, we all are to blame one way or another for the destruction of earth.
But we are also learning. We learn from our ancestors, both as role models and in the mistakes they've made.
We're still trying to improve. Science may help us break down how it all works, but nature shows us how it all works together.
Ok, all that aside... Electric vehicles, though not a new tech by any means (video shock-umentary "who killed the electric car") - is still in its infancy. Its true that it runs by accessing a stored charge of electricity made by any possible combination of "green" and "dirty" power plants. Sure its true these toxic packs using rare earth elements (how much gold is used for electrical connectors these days - just for thought) are material and labor intense to produce. Performance-wise, they're slowly getting better. Either way, it eats up a large amount of workforce and resources to put one together. Glad to know the people that make these cars do have jobs to support their families because of the consumer market. However, i find it BULLSHIT that government shows any kind of favoritism (subsidies) - especially to EVs and to corn (the topic of corn is a whole different subject for a later date). I am not paying my ass busting taxes for some prissypants fuck to toss his princess tiara on and cruise an EV because he gets a royal fucking discount by the hands of the almighty government for it. No, thats just bullshit. If you want to help the earth, do it because its right, dont do it cuz the money stolen from me in taxes makes it cheaper for you to get one. Fuck that
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Post by ThaiGyro on Oct 2, 2017 5:28:06 GMT -5
atariguyfc, I am with you on the "powers that be" front. I was a long time employee of a large "energy" company. (They used to be oil, then oil & gas, then energy)
One close friend and former manager was a high up kind of guy, with very good business sense. He became the President of Global Energy Future Development. Explore the possibilities! Corn-pone was already out in the market. Not a fan in gasoline mix, but diesel mix has value...He went into hydrogen fuels and that technology as a big driver, as well as other alternatives. That was over 10 years ago. He is now retired.
I am not really in the know here, but have enough understanding to believe that hydrogen fuels technology has a very viable "future". After the love is gone. (oil reserves) The big guys will create enough time to buy up all possible future tech or have it killed off. One way or another. They will still "own" the earth, just as they do now.
If anyone believes that will ever change...you must be smoking corn silk. Laced...with sump'n.
Ohhh, what that relates to in terms of electrical power? That picture, (oil reserves gone) is void of generation by anything but nuke, wind and solar...with a tiny smattering of hydro and tidal surge (wave power) tossed in. Possible? Sure! Cheap? hmmmm...
If we could just get those di-lithium crystal reactors on line. Hyper-space racing!
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Post by knobby on Oct 3, 2017 10:44:43 GMT -5
Nuclear power makes a lot of sense when done correctly.. Don't do it in crumbling reactors designed and built in the 50's and 60's, then blame the power source when everything goes wrong.
^I'm sure there are some episodes where dilthium done wrong blows stuff up, but they don't blame the crystals. Do they?
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Post by ThaiGyro on Oct 4, 2017 2:28:33 GMT -5
Haha knobby. You are right, if done and operated correctly. My bro works at "not done correctly" in WA state. Shut down that place after the cold war...weapons grade, not e-power.
On star trek..massive issues with crystals over the years. Likely blamed the producers.
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Post by knobby on Oct 11, 2017 11:02:37 GMT -5
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Post by 190mech on Oct 11, 2017 12:01:15 GMT -5
Was not this thread titled "NEXT GENERATION TWO-STROKES" ?
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Post by knobby on Oct 11, 2017 14:33:27 GMT -5
Sorry, I get extremely worked up on this topic because the gasser side doesn't get a fair shake in anybody's minds when they think about Ev vs. gas transport. So much bad info gets tossed out from both sides. I'm done.
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Post by ThaiGyro on Oct 19, 2017 4:16:16 GMT -5
The thought I was weakly trying to put forth...was taking an engine design, like the "opposed piston/opposed cylinder" design, (for diesel, mainly) and make it a gasoline, 2T with injection. The HP could be amazing, even have some advanced combustion control and cylinder metals/porcelain coatings to reduce oil pre-mix percentage. Combined with ultra high compression? Bang on two strokes!
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Post by 190mech on Oct 19, 2017 4:29:37 GMT -5
Right now Evinrude and SkiDoo(same parent company) have direct injected 2 strokes that kick 4 stroke butt on power,fuel economy and emissions.Ive read auto manufacturers have not went to 2 strokes because of big end bearing failure due to moisture ingestion,SkiDoo has a neat storage feature that oils the bottom end bearings..Development of a seperated top end so the bottom end has full 4 stroke type oiling is being tried also...
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