In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:08:31 -0500: Hi, > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ><snip> > >> A great inventor will be one who can get our cars off of fossil fuel >> elegantly, and with little downside accomodation. > >MC: Like Randell Mills and the BLP-powered hydrogen generator module for >filling stations, providing high pressure hydrogen for hydrogen-conveterd >cars. > >Mike Carrell
I would prefer to see a Li/B11-fusion powered vehicle that used alpha particles to create free electrons in an Icosahedral Boride semiconductor diode power supply (analogous to a solar cell, but with the free electrons created by ionizing radiation rather than solar photons), driving an electric motor. (This is the same concept as a beta-voltaic battery, but using alpha particles rather than beta particles as the power source, and with the advantage that the reaction rate is completely variable and electrically controlled). Advantages:- 1) Built in fuel supply that lasts the lifetime of the vehicle. 2) Non-polluting. 3) Quiet. 4) Cheap. Disadavantages:- None. With a little luck, the fusion reaction would be so fast that response to the controls would be near instantaneous, and no battery buffer would be needed. The most optimistic scenario, for the device I have in mind, would make this possible. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
