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I always assumed X-Ray recovery was just a modified Photovoltaic cell. It’s just a matter of adjusting the frequency… Kenneth.

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Just a quick point, Glenn: If we do get global warming via CO2 emissions largely under control, then it makes real good sense to keep global dimming around a bit longer to let the ice build back up where it needs to be.

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You ever heard about the strategies of Parmenion and Alexander?

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transmute, I’m not trying to municipal waste on your Fusion oil idea, I think it’s a very good one, I just feel that we need to throw everything we have at taking emissions down to negative levels before any other priority.

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OK, but we were talking about the aleged EEStor system, not contemporary electric hybrid technology. Your objection there was that it couldn’t function on one input to charge in 3-4 minutes w/o melting the input, so I suggested it would need specialized input. You countered that this would make it unfeasible for home recharging in 3-4 minutes since the electrical system would have to be rewired. So I suggested that the EEStor car could be charged in 3-4 minutes at dedicated locations in the now obsolete gas stations, which would be specifically equipped for that purpose.

So from where I’m reading the conversation, it isn’t germane that nobody would wait hours to charge a car at a station since that wasn’t the time frame I was thinking of anyway.

Sorry about the confusion. 🙁

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So convert some gas stations to full service charging stations. The real estate has to be repurposed anyway.

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OK, I see.

So no chance of even reducing the required size of the capacitor bank? As emphasized before, I’m interested in space.

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But the single system has to keep running by having several pulses every microsecond, right? Or am I missing something?

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High School Physics hypothetical rejoinder to hypothetical criticism of hypothetical technology:

OK, I remember that heat build up is due to electrical resistance, so I guess we’re assuming all that energy has to be routed through one in line? If you were to spread the inlines several each around several of these capacitors, wouldn’t that reduce the heat at any one point?

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One potential hang up. It looks as though the weight of the battery would still exceed most current automotive internal combustion engines.

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Hey again Glenn. I agree in principle with the arguments you present, and point out that I figured this Fusion Oil stuff had to hit $1 a barrel to do the needed job. (Undercut Exxon and destroy it and its influence forever.)

I think that you’re wrong about steady state CO2 production for fuel, while most of the CO2 would be emitted in urbanized regions, this might actually HELP retard Global warming as it will be proportionatly reduced in the production centers and the biomass would continue to suck it up over most of the Earth’s surface area, which where it counts.

Plus, the idea for synthesizing Lime in the ocean from spare CO2 is a good one, particularly if governments institute emissions licenses for companies to be allowed to produce CO2, AND will issue these to CO2 sinkers for resale to same, moreso if the governments of the world can be convinced to set the target emissions at negative levels and continue decreasing them. (ie subsidizing CO2 absorption).

I agree with transmute that the EEstor needs more demonstrable proof that it can work before I believe it. In principle, of course, it looks pretty good for long distance, if you can get 65 mph for 5 hrs or so and 1 refueling stop of 4 minutes or so. Might even work for Propeller driven aircraft.

If it’s ok, Glenn, can you look at my other thread on repurposing coal mines? I know keeping jobs in mining communities is a major concern of yours.

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What’s the capacity on EEStor and the associated range?

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You don’t GET the sunlight down there, you produce it via lighting.

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Just another use for the old abandoned coal mines.

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That’s about what I thought in terms of biomass needs.

That’s why I figured direct synthesis of hydrocarbons from water and CO2 would be simpler, less steps involved and easier access to cheap raw materials. Of course I don’t know if there’s a direct synthesis method other then photosynthesis for sugar and then on through your method.

What about cultivating dense algae in artificially lighted tanks year round for biomass?

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