On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]>wrote:
>> Who cares about gravimetric density? >> > > > Evidently you don't; that much is clear. The automobile companies that > are moving towards electric vehicles care - and care a lot. > Why? They care about weight and how much energy it can store, but I don't see why they'd care how dense it was. Well OK if it had the density of styrofoam there could be a problem finding a place to put 200 pounds of it in a small car, but that is not a realistic issue; as long as the battery was reliable and cheap and stored lots of energy for its weight I don't see why car makers would much care if it was as dense as aluminum or as dense as lead. > The advanced battery field is moving very fast > I disagree. Nearly all electronic components are astronomically better than they were 50 years ago, but batteries are the exception, they are only slightly better. > It may surprise you but I wish the US would start up an LFTR program... in > fact, I wish the 8+ billion dollar loan guarantee now earmarked to fund > those nuclear white elephants in Georgia was instead - much more wisely IMO > - being used to kick start an LFTR program. > Well, we agree on something. And I would rather they had spent 8 billion dollars on research to improve photovoltaic cells and batteries rather than build more reactors based on designs from the 1960s; even the most promising ideas can go south and this matter is too important to place all our bets on just one vision. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
