Date:         Fri, 2 Sep 2005 20:41:23 -0400
Reply-To:     Wil Haslup <wil@CHARMFX.COM>
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From:         Wil Haslup <wil@CHARMFX.COM>
Subject:      capacitance cells,
              sorry meant to add was Re: Maybe now is the time to fill the tank
              of your extra car or
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Wil Haslup wrote:
> turbodieseltrooper wrote:
>
>> WRONG - The electric motor, of a hybrid, only works while moving away
>> from a
>> standstill for as long as there is juice in the battery.
>
>
> Which is why it adds economy....most fuel is lost on
> acceleration/deceleration and not at speed.
>
>> A hybrid provides
>> NO advantage at speeds above 35mph as it's running on gas. The only thing
>> that we would get under your plan is landfills full of huge lead
>> batteries
>> and sulfric acid spills after major accidents.
>
>
> there are other storage technologies and one of the things
> you don't hear about is that hybrids also use something called a
> capacitance cell
>
> I include a Google link cause lots of these docs are PDFs.
>
> Essentially they are capacitors which permit larger capacities, quicker
> responses and are more appropriate for uses in a hybrids.
>
> I've wondered for years why we still use lead acid batteries to start
> our cars.  Capacitance cells would be trouble when discharged but should
> charge and jump the same as a lead acid.  ...I'm guessing since they
> don't have internals that will eventually stop holding charge they would
> wreck the battery market.  They might fail eventually but they should
> last much longer than a lead acid battery.

Sorry I meant to include this link...

http://www.google.com/search?q=capacitance+cell+hybrid&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official


If the link doesn't work just Google search for capacitance cell hybrid

--

Wil


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