GlobalWarming

[Sportsdude]

I just saw the movie "Who Killed The Electric Car" and it made me livid. They had a car that could go atleast 90 miles (145 KM) on a single charge and they killed it because the oil companies told them to. This one guy created an electric car that can go zero to 60 in 3 seconds and can go 300 miles (483 KM) on a single charge. Instead of improving these electric cars the car companies took them from there customers and crushed them in the desert. They didn't want anyone to know that they built an electric car. And in the movie a Toyota guy said Hydrogen is really a pipe dream thats 30 years away and you can't run it in the cold because Hydrogen freezes and they don't know if its truely safe or not. (you know hydrogen bomb).

[Gopher]

soapbox wrote:
 bus and walking.

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Same here - bus maybe twice a week, on foot the rest of the time.    
   

[Thread Cop]

Re: GlobalWarming
well, GlobalWarming or not, this planet is screwed anyway.  
What do you say we both go off of the grid (map) to another planet Brit_guy?  

[Russ]

Sportsdude wrote:
 I just saw the movie "Who Killed The Electric Car" and it made me livid. They had a car that could go atleast 90 miles (145 KM) on a single charge and they killed it because the oil companies told them to. This one guy created an electric car that can go zero to 60 in 3 seconds and can go 300 miles (483 KM) on a single charge. Instead of improving these electric cars the car companies took them from there customers and crushed them in the desert. They didn't want anyone to know that they built an electric car. And in the movie a Toyota guy said Hydrogen is really a pipe dream thats 30 years away and you can't run it in the cold because Hydrogen freezes and they don't know if its truely safe or not. (you know hydrogen bomb).[/DIV]
 Arent they running hydrogen buses in Cali? I thought they were using retro fitted diesel engines with attachments manufactured by Ballard Fuel Cells?

Also I thought they were looking into these things for Van as well?

[Russ]

I stand corrected, I just visited google.

It DOES use Hydrogen, but doesnt burn it, just breaks it down into electrons(power), heat, air and water.

  Ballard Fuel Cell:

[img class=image-inline title="Ballard Fuel Cell" alt="Ballard Fuel Cell" src="http://www.ballard.com/images/image_gallery/technology/pem_fuelcell.gif" border=0]

  Heres the write-up:

[A href="http://www.ballard.com/be_informed/fuel_cell_technology/how_the_technology_works"]http://www.ballard.com/be_informed/fuel_cell_technology/how_the_technology_works[/A]

Heres an animated thingy showing how the fuel cell works:

[A href="http://www.ballard.com/resources/animations/animations/FuelCellLong/index.html"]http://www.ballard.com/resources/animations/animations/FuelCellLong/index.html[/A]