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 xXKaryXx
Female, 13-17, Western US
 640 Posts
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 8:26:56 AM
aww i want one
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 robosnitz
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
2752 Posts
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:15:23 AM
I have two in my garage.Still waiting for those motors though. |
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 LameName
Female, 18-29, Western US
238 Posts
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Monday, March 15, 2010 3:42:01 PM
gimme!! |
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 defcon2
Male, 18-29, Europe
37 Posts
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Monday, March 15, 2010 2:02:12 PM
Looks like a painting or 3D |
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 ROK9
Male, 18-29, Western US
1838 Posts
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Monday, March 15, 2010 12:09:33 PM
cool |
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 meepmaker
Male, 30-39, Southern US
6716 Posts
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Monday, March 15, 2010 7:00:31 AM
One day the govt. will let us have things that are helpfull. |
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 flingspoo
Female, 18-29, Western US
1006 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:31:59 PM
postulationsI like that word. That and alliteration. Don't like the Spanish word "leche" (milk). |
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 Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9537 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:57:35 PM
Back on the electric car thing, a massive increase in charge to weight ratio and charge to volume ratio would make it viable to solve the charging time issue. Car battery packs could then be small and light enough to make it practical to change them at a battery station. Drive in, swap for a charged pack, the discharged pack from your car can be charged in the battery station, so it doesn't matter if it takes a few hours.It would also improve handling, performance and efficiency by quite a bit. Shame it doesn't exist. But it might at some point, maybe within a decade. Although that still leaves all the other problems. The grid could be upgraded enough, at a staggering cost. Increasing generating capacity by enough would take more than just money. Maybe it will be viable in decades to come. |
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 Andicicle
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
441 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:49:09 PM
Your postulations are mind boggling (I meant NUMBING).... no matter what you cannot build a safe vehicle in this manner, and no I do not feel the need to elaborate further, its all in your "research" materials. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9537 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:48:55 PM
Without any evidence that it's hugely better than traditional turbine designs, it's just more Tesla hype.The basic design is well known. It's not like it's a secret. So why isn't everyone using it instead of other turbine designs? I think it's because it's worse than other turbine designs. |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16922 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:52:16 PM
I know that many of the Space Shuttle's pumps are 'finless' (the re-invention I mentioned) and that in theory they could be as small as a marble & still put out lots of pressure.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PdzaYwgQ...
They work, it's just a matter of them not self-destructing. |
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5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16922 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:42:19 PM
:blushes:
Sorry Angilion! I read an article about how a Japanese company is using Tesla's ideas to make hyper-efficient fans for industrial use, but that was several years ago and of course I can't find it.
His main problem was metalurgy. The rotor deformed under the enormous stress and set it off-balance. Other than that it was tested and proven, but not practical in 1923. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9537 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:12:12 PM
5Cats...can you find any hard figures for the *total* efficiency of a *working* Tesla turbine? Note the emphasised words.It's an interesting turbine design but, as is usually the case with anything Tesla is connected with, a myriad implausible claims are made for it. It's easy to build a small one, but far harder to scale it up to a commercial size. I think it's worth noting that Tesla never managed to do so. http://www.tfcbooks.com/teslafaq/q&a... |
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 AnimalBizarr
Male, 18-29, Europe
67 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 8:12:04 PM
they supergleud a jet engine to it and shot it into space |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9537 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:57:21 PM
It isn't the solution many people think it is. Not yet, anyway. We need far more of everything - batteries from plentiful materials at a fraction of the price, batteries with a much higher charge to weight and mass ratios, at least several times as much electricty generating capacity, much more carrying capacity on the national grid...and even then the charge time is still a problem unless someone finds a way to safely feed hundreds of KW from the grid to the car, somehow. |
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9537 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:55:20 PM
Assume everyone went electric anyway, despite the far higher cost.We can't make enough batteries to meet the demand. We can't make enough electricty to meet the demand. We can't distribute enough electricity to meet the demand. We can't charge the cars fast enough to make it viable except for overnight charge in a garage. Many people don't have a garage. That's not just a matter of the batteries being able to charge fast enough. It's also a matter of supplying the charge. If, for example, you want to charge 50KWh in 5 minutes (i.e. as a reasonable fuel station stop), you need to supply 600KW to the car and even that's with 100% efficiency. Can't be done.
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Angilion
Male, 40-49, Europe
9537 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:47:42 PM
A comparison of the Tesla and the Lotus Elise it's based on. S is base model, SC is top end. Both handle much better than Tesla due to lower weight.UK prices, feel free to do the same for your own country. If anyone disagrees about the tax...do you really think the government would stop all that tax income? Of course not. 2010 Elise S 37.2 mpg
SC 28 mpg Petrol 111.89 per litre
Tax 72.85p
Actual price = 39.04p UK gallon = 4.55 litres UK gallon actual price 177.63 UK cost per mile: Elise S 4.78
Elise SC 6.34 UK electricity cost ~10p per Kwh Tesla 28Kwh per 100 miles. UK cost per mile: 2.8p But...the big cost is battery replacement. Tesla say you'll get 100,000 miles of normal driving. They won't give a price, because they know it's bad news. £10,000 is a reasonable estimate. So that adds 10p per mile, making it double the running cost of an Elise SC and not far off triple that of the Elise S, both of which are much better cars at half the |
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 Link_Hiei
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
5158 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:23:10 PM
Looks weird LOL. |
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 DarkFerret
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2764 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 7:08:05 PM
Dude, that's awesome! |
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ChelseaSmile
Male, 18-29, Western US
9 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:05:22 PM
I sat in the tesla at the Seattle car show, nice little car. I cant remember the name of it but another company made a purely electric sedan. |
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 billy66bare
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
290 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 5:03:38 PM
But if they allowed this out, our economy would collapse *maybe*, who wants to live in a future with a different economy when you can live in a barren waist land....our kids have soooo much to look forward to!! |
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 panth753
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
8133 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 3:04:25 PM
I want... |
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5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16922 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 3:00:05 PM
vv Tesla invented A/C current, you might have heard of it?
This place has along, dry reading of his works.
The device I'm refering to is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbi...
Which was 'rediscovered' at great expense in the 90's, lolz! They thought they hit the jackpot, but Tesla pattented it almost a century before!
ANyhow, On-topic: Yes, early versions of the electric car would have cost $200K and wouldn't be as good as...
The TESLA! |
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 duffytoler
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
5220 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 2:19:06 PM
>>Nicola Tesla inventedYeah! And the warp drive, and anti-gravity, and the computer, and the portals gun, and the stargate, and the time machine, and parallel universes, and the laser, and the tractor beam, and the atom bomb, and R2D2! WHY doesn't he get credit for any of this? Why oh why were all of his secret inventions suppressed by the government ? |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:27:14 PM
I want one! |
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