Because our highest priority continues, inexplicably, to be guaranteeing the
continuation of filling stations, tankers, and pipelines. Because they're so
much more convenient than wires.
-Bill
> On Aug 12, 2017, at 15:39, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 12 Aug 2017 at 11:27, Mike Beem via EV wrote:
>>
>> https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2017/Q2/instantly-rechargeable-batter
>> y-could-change-the-future-of-electric-and-hybrid-automobiles.html
>
> I'm not an electrochemist, but this sounds to me more like a fuel cell than
> a battery. Sustemic efficiency (or rather the lack of it) is typically the
> elephant in the room with most fuel cells.
>
> "... would enable drivers to fill up their electric or hybrid vehicles with
> fluid electrolytes to re-energize spent battery fluids much like refueling
> their gas tanks."
>
> Ah. We can end our reliance on buying automotive fuel from the oil
> companies, and instead become reliant on buying fuel from a battery-slurry
> company.
>
> "The spent battery fluids or electrolyte could be collected and taken to a
> solar farm, wind turbine installation or hydroelectric plant for re-
> charging."
>
> It could. Or coal, natural gas, nuclear -- you know, whatever's cheapest.
>
> There's a lot of talk about "refueling" in the piece, but it appears that
> the real innovation here is eliminating the fuel cell membrane. What's not
> addressed is who's going to build the refueling facilities and where. It's
> tough enough now finding places to "gas up" an HFCV or even a NGV. This is
> not a trivial problem.
>
> Not to say any of this is impossible, but as with everything else, follow
> the money, and as far as I can tell, the big bucks are moving in other
> directions -- or, more accurately, concentrating even more where they
> already are.
>
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
> EVDL Administrator
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