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- Wed Apr 16, 2025 10:36 am
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: long duration storage with liquid air
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1919
Re: long duration storage with liquid air
Are you agreeing with MikeNowak - who seems to be saying that scaling this up won't work because (if I understood it right) large volume storage of liquid air demands such high pressure that the container becomes either unbuildable or disproportionately expensive? If that's so it's a pity, as it lo...
- Wed Apr 16, 2025 7:32 am
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: long duration storage with liquid air
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1919
Re: long duration storage with liquid air
Don't we have (or had) loads of air liquification and distillation plants around the UK...? I'm sure I have seen lorries of liquid N 2 on the road and delivering to scientific/research facilities - and liquid oxygen is also a regular thing. I have even done jobs on sites where other people have bro...
- Mon Mar 17, 2025 7:54 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: Tesla's "cheaper car" ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1615
Re: Tesla's "cheaper car" ?
Given it's getting to be a bit elderly compared to the competition, it needs to be. Main point is that they're burning up their own margin in the process - bad place to be against Chinese competition.
- Sat Mar 15, 2025 7:16 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: Tesla's "cheaper car" ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1615
Re: Tesla's "cheaper car" ?
So a price and margin drop incoming on the Model Y then...
- Sun Jan 19, 2025 8:36 pm
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: Cybertruck seized in Manchester
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7902
Re: Cybertruck seized in Manchester
According to GMP it was seized under S165 of the RTA: no insurance. Nothing to do with being UK legal. Getting insurance if it isn't UK legal is going to be tough - as I understand it they bought it overseas (Albania?) and imported it as if they were a tourist. Insurance presumably became invalid w...
- Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: BMWs to run on vegetables
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3458
Re: BMWs to run on vegetables
I assume (dangerous I know, but I'm going to) that it's nigh on impossible to produce enough bio/synthetic fuel for the World's current ICE fleet. Plus, it won't help much with localised emissions from the tailpipe. The big issue isn't the world ICE fleet. It's that a whole bunch of industries are ...
- Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:21 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: Any Chemists out there??
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5821
Re: Any Chemists out there??
Would you not be able to use Electroless nickel plating?
- Mon Nov 11, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: Lucid comes to Europe
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3907
Re: Lucid comes to Europe
If they're only selling a few thousand cars, it'll be the overheads that are killing them not the cost of manufacturing the car. IF they can increase sales, their cash bleed will go way down.
- Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:49 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: Electric catamaran passenger and car ferry
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4354
Re: Electric catamaran passenger and car ferry
but how is a battery going to provide redundancy? Given that conventional ships only have propellors anyway, I guess that a back-up generator for the electric drive would be better than that! https://www.wartsila.com/images/default-source/products/e-pms-landing-page/the-propulsion-battery-and-energ...
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: Electric catamaran passenger and car ferry
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4354
Re: Electric catamaran passenger and car ferry
Presumably it would use only full power to accelerate and reduce the power by quite a percentage when up to cruising speed? Analogy : Dunno about all EVs, but mine can discharge at a bit over 3C on acceleration, but at 70mph and a range of, say 210 miles, it will be discharging at about 0.3C for mo...