In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:19:07 -0500: Hi, [snip] >A cold fusion hybrid >would probably not need as many batteries as the Prius plug-in or Volt. >Just enough to bring the turbine up to full output. If that could be done >in 6 minutes, or ~8 miles at highway speed, then you could use one-forth of >the batteries in the the Volt. If the turbine came to full power in one >minute, you would hardly need more batteries than a standard non-plug in >Prius, $22,000. [snip] If it's only a few minutes, then you could warn your car in advance that you were soon going to use it, and it could be ready by the time you step in. There is also the possibility that you can't turn the CF reaction off anyway, just scale it back, so the car might be ready all the time anyway.
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