When a Mustang is not a Mustang

Bang on the first, and agree wholeheartedly with the second :slight_smile:

Can’t recall an electrolyte refill idea off hand, sounds kinda interesting, might have to look it up. The Germany hydrogen fuel cell powered electric motor tractor trailers might be the solution you’re looking for. It does need the infrastructure and is not without it’s own problems, but it eliminates the battery issues, doesn’t burn fossil fuels, and ideally the only emissions are water vapor.

Or the carbon recycling idea being tested if it works. Supposedly the fuel is good to go in regular ICs and the emissions is just more carbon to be recaptured and cycled back into fuel. I haven’t looked into it too deep yet.

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Fuel cells: problem with fuels cells is that hydrogen isn’t a fuel source. It is an energy carrier. It takes energy to produce hydrogen to get the energy hydrogen carries. And with the physical laws of diminishing returns, it’s always going to take more energy to get the hydrogen than the hydrogen is going to carry into the fuel cell and onto the wheels of a vehicle. Granted that is going to be clean energy. And for the areas of the world (Pacific Northwest USA as one example) which rely on clean renewable energy such as hydroelectric. Or areas building solar and wind power. It just gets cleaner. But the output being pure steam needs to be converted back into hydrogen again. More power consumption. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but the US power grid needs to at least double in size to handle the load. And here in Hawaii, our power grid, (already at the breaking point) needs to quadruple in capacity.

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Speaking of Hawaii… and I’ll plead ignorance here, seems like you’re sitting on an endless (clean ?) energy source of incalculable power. Anything much being done with geothermal there ?

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Geothermals - hadn’t considered that.
Iceland springs to mind and probably many others.
The refilling thing was on the news or a documentary several years ago but again seems to have either died off for some reason or it’s still being worked maybe ?

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Not a subject Native Hawaiians are willing to let be developed. End of discussion. That’s how a lot of things get done here. But I moved to Hawaii to live in Hawaii for the reason of it is Hawaii. I left Oregon for the reason of others moving there then saying, “that’s not how we did it - wherever”. @KnightOfRen8514 can probably understand this.

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Things are done differently here. Road building, a road in the Mainland that would take a summer season to build. Here takes 3 to 5 years minimum. Construction of any kine (Hawaiian word for kind) is as weather permits. That means it may be to rainy to work or it may be good surfing weather. In which case, work can wait a day or two.

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Pity they won’t let it happen. Could be a new Superpower - both for Hawaii and energy in general.

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Ah yes, now you say it I recall the issue. Thanks.

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Jesus. This thread is still going? Look what Ford has done to us.

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No no, we’re onto better things in it now. Really ! :laughing:

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Sadly yes - thought the dead horse had been thrashed enough and only thing needed was to dig a hole but then it switched to EV fuel issues and I suddenly got interested again.
Sorry - Maybe the fuel thing needs to be moved to a new thread but I’m not sure how to do that.

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Dead horse? Pun intended there? :wink:

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But of Course - again pun intended…

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Don’t give the overlords any fuel. They’ll lock it or bundled it up some obscure place and spoil all our fun!

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Yeah - would be good if I could just move these into a new one though to stop annoying all the dead horse thrashers from carrying on without having to read them.

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It might get Admin split off and moved eventually :slight_smile: Until then… consider it the graveside service for the much abused equine :wink:

And, fwiw and if any interest, I dug up an old news article on that battery refilling idea might be the one you were thinking of Aaorta. Some reading for me later anyway :wink:

Refillable Batteries for EVs

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Tried to select all the relevant posts and make it a new thread but it didn’t bring them over - just a link back to the original.

Thanks for the other link though - I’ll need to read this.

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@ Not_Here_Too
Managed to get the posts in to the new one - just need to delete the link back to the dead horse one…

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The thing is its fords car they designed it so they can call it wat they want to some extent, i would imagine the own the licence to name cars mustang or something like that, like the way Porsche own the rights to name cars 911.

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Kraft owns the JELL-O brand and could apply it to rock candy if they wanted to, but I bet people would eschew that insanity and continue calling gelatin desserts JELL-O. That’s what happens when a brand is successful enough to establish an identity in the public consciousness.

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