Los Alamos National Laboratory patented a lightweight containment system
using Kevlar. While the Patent was in force, our firm had rights for use
with our polymers. Now that their Patent has expired we still expect to use
that lightweight system of containment for UMES electron flywheels.
Carbon fiber may prove to be an even better alternative and we are watching
wire development progress with that extremely light material many times
stronger than steel.
Mark
From: Bob Fickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: Room Temperature Superconductors and EVs
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:50:05 -0600
Much as I'd like to have some ultraconductor wire to play with, I'm not
convinced that Ultrqaconducting Magnetic Energy Storage will replace
batteries. Magnetic fields create a pressure equal to the energy density-
and therefore require a strong (read "heavy" and "expensive") mechanical
container.
Mark Goldes wrote:
Harry,
They can be made, but not yet in wire form.
Thin films containing Ultraconductors 1 or 2 microns in diameter (1/50th
the diameter of a human hair) can always carry 50 Amperes. The
Ultraconductors run through the film in the thin direction, (i.e. normal
to the film).
Wire is 3 years and $18 million in front of us.
Once available as wire, electron flywheels can begin to replace batteries.
Ultraconducting Magnetic Energy Storage systems are expected to prove
practical.
Electric motors made with Ultraconducting wire can be much smaller and
lighter, and may require no iron. Alll plastic motors may therefore prove
practical. Superconducting motors require no iron. We suspect the same
will be true of Ultraconductors.
Mark
From: Harry Veeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: Who Killed the EV?
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:29:14 -0500
If room temperature superconductors can be made they would also
boost the performance of electric vehicles.
If I remember correctly, a Time magazine cover from around '86 or '87
showed an artist's rendering of a futuristic electric vehicle as one of
the
promises of high temperature superconductors.
Harry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harry Veeder
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> Do they mean the braking system did not use friction?
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> It used both: disc in front, electric in rear. Here are the EV-1
specs:
>
>
http://www.evchargernews.com/CD-A/gm_ev1_web_site/specs/specs_specs_top.h
> tm
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ckaju
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