Reply To: Fusion Oil

[JimmyT]

I just looked up the horse power ratings for a standard size earth-mover engine. The Caterpillar D8n non super-charged engine is rated at 600 HP (or alternately they say 384 Kw). 1000 KWh would be about 2 1/2 hours of diesel operation.
Earth movers can’t compete with a Tesla roadster on the quarter mile. But I would venture to guess that they weigh a good bit more. And a earth-mover in skilled hands can move it’s own weight every few minutes.

Here’s a link giving energy storage densities of various substances. Noticeably absent (from my perspective) is boron 11 and hydrogen.

Wikipedia.org/wiki/energy_Density

Looks to me like even if eestor’s claims are true. (And they are listed in this table) They are still only about 1/45th the energy density of diesel fuel. It’s true your “engine” is going to weigh less and thus you can incorporate more battery weight. Ultimately only a through engineering study is going to determine if this will be sufficient advantage to offset the energy density advantage of diesel.

I actually hope you’re right. Might be worth it. Guess it depends on the price of diesel fuel primarily.