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===================================================== Previous newsletters covering this issue: www.eagle-research.com/newsletter/archive/2001/2001_04.php www.eagle-research.com/newsletter/archive/2001/2001_12.php There has been much more development of electric vehicles in the last couple of years. You can now buy hybrid electric vehicles from at least two major automobile manufacturers and from at least a dozen independents. There are newsletters and egroups for people who want to learn and share. An example is: ELECTRIFYING TIMES, the #1 Electric Car Magazine in the United States. Published three times a year. Annual subscription only $13.00. Electrifying Times, 63600 Deschutes Market Road, Bend, OR 97701. http://www.electrifyingtimes.com. The reason for all this development is that electric vehicles ultimately make sense and, in one form or another, they WILL eventually replace the internal combustion engine. In the late 1800s-early 1900s, electric vehicles were nearly holding their own with other options for powering vehicles. The reason they ultimately couldn't compete was that petroleum has a high energy density, is easily stored, is readily available, easy to distribute and inexpensive. Petroleum is still 'inexpensive' compared to alternatives but that is when you don't consider the total costs, like how pollution affects our health and environment. Also how the politics of petroleum causes energy hungry nations to go to war to maintain their supply. The real costs of petroleum are starting to be felt at the same time that practical solutions for electric vehicles are becoming available. First, there is now an infrastructure to deliver electrical power to nearly anywhere, allowing people to 'fillip' with electricity. Second, innovations in batteries, electric motors, controllers, and alternatives like fuel cells are becoming commonly available. I see the designs for electric vehicles (even OEM ones) are based on obsolete thinking and technology. I think the electric vehicles of the future will require a complete 'rethink' from the ground up. This sort of 'rethink' is what allowed us to build Brown's Gas electrolyzers that are twice as good as any traditional technology, making Brown's Gas practical for the first time. From what I see of currently available technology (and I'm not even in the electric vehicle business... yet) there are many places where efficiency of the vehicle could be improved and cost of production significantly lowered with different design concepts. For example: Many hybrids use a separate engine/generator to charge the batteries. It is a good idea to combine the generator and the vehicle's drive motor into one unit. It reduces weight, size, cost and complexity of the drivetrain. The hybrid's engine can then: 1) directly 'assist' the motor when needed for extra power, 2) operate as a prime mover, overdriving the motor to turn in into a generator, charging the batteries when the vehicle is not moving, or using less power than the engine is providing, 3) directly move the vehicle if the electrical system has failed. To accomplish these objectives will require an innovative transmission and electrical system that would allow regenerative braking and smooth, efficient power application/battery charging. Design of the actual vehicle aside, there is still a major issue to solve before electric vehicles will be commonplace. We need an environmentally compatible source of energy that is about 10 times greater than all our current power plants combined. We need to have access to at least enough 'renewable' energy as we are currently using from the 'stored' energy of petroleum. Until that issue is solved, electric vehicles will not (cannot) entirely replace internal combustion. I consider the most promising electric vehicle power source to currently be fuel cells (instead of batteries), using hydrogen as the fuel of choice. This technology provides light weight power and has a reasonable energy storage density. Fuel cell technology is attracting enough money that it is becoming practical. The problem is making, storing and delivering the hydrogen. We have oceans full of hydrogen, but it takes more energy to produce it than we get out of using it. Currently, most hydrogen is being made by cracking it out of petroleum. This does not solve our pollution problem. We are working on means to split water with minimum energy, and our electrolyzers have been tested over 98% efficient (total power used, including power supply losses). This is not high enough efficiency to make electrolysis an option to make hydrogen a fuel (except in specific cases). We have heard of people being able to split water using very minimal electrical input (in the order of 30 watthours to make 3000 liters/hour of gas), and we've had events happen in our research that indicate that it's possible. We do not, yet, have a clue how to reliably duplicate this effect. For home builders, the hybrid with internal or external combustion engine is still the most practical. Using the advantages of electricity, you can significantly increase the efficiency of the use of your fuel. I'm exploring the option of an 'air engine' to use as the power source for the onboard generator/motor. I think you'll continue to see electric vehicles develop and become more common. They certainly have a place in our society. I also think that our civilization is pushing the edges of it's power capability and we are in for some tough times unless we can do the same work with dramatically less power, and/or we are willing to accept a lower standard of living, and/or we find new power sources. I suspect we'll see a combination of all three 'options'.===================================================== ===================================================== Dear Readers, I am just getting back to my Gravity Power research, I've unpacked my 'gravity' file and I'm building my Gravity Wheel now. It is a pleasure to open up this project in my new shop. I have been busy, but that's not the reason I haven't completed the gravity wheel experiment. The real reason is fear of failure. This is ironic because I learned a long time ago that inventors NEED to have NO fear of failure; first because they are guaranteed to 'fail' a significant portion of the time (around 99% for me) and second, because 'failure' is actually a much needed learning experience. Inventors need to have a special character that will keep trying to find a solution in the face of every possible obstacle, within and without. True inventors invent continuously, their minds see a 'problem' and automatically go looking for a solution. The best inventors can also turn that around; when they see a solution, they can find the problem it will solve. This is helpful in recognizing 'spinoffs' to any particular line of research. I've made more money on 'spinoffs' than on my major lines of research. Inventors need to recognize that 'failure' is not a bad thing, that it doesn't need to affect them personally. That it is just a learning experience and that you now know what WON'T work, which is vital information. As a consultant I have saved my clients millions of dollars, because I know what won't work. All that said, I now realize that I truly want this wheel to work and I let it get too personal. Based on my preliminary experiments, I think it has a good chance of working. If it works, it could help solve our civilization's energy problems. Since this is the major goal of Eagle-Research, having the possibility of achieving it intimidated me. On the other hand, the possibility that it wouldn't work and NOT achieve the goal was equally intimidating. So I let it get personal and for that I apologize to both myself and to you. I'm OK now :))) I will treat it like any other experiment and learn from it whether it 'works' or not. Finding the reasons why things don't work is vital. I'm writing the second edition 'Gravity Power' Book and I will discuss why many of the 'gravity wheel' ideas DON'T work. This will help those people who are thinking on such projects. To make something that will work, one needs to understand the things that prevent it from working so that workable solutions can be found. I will also be including more details of how to use Brown's Gas in a way to generate power from gravity. In it's present form, the project is too large for home application. However, it does present a concept that can work, so it represents a kind of thinking that may result in practical home applications. Tapping into gravity as a power source makes a lot of sense to me. We already use gravity, in combination with solar, as a power source for a significant portion of our power needs (hydro power). The province in which I live generates most of it's power this way, and sells excess to places like California. The problem in harnessing the power of falling water is that it tends to be site specific, available only to a few homeowners. We need a means to generate power anywhere, anytime, in at least 1 kilowatt size, and for less than an (installed) cost of $10 per watt. The second edition of 'Gravity Power' will address those issues.===================================================== ===================================================== ===================================================== ********************************************************************* If you know someone whom you believe would like to be subscribed to this unique newsletter; invite them to view: www.eagle-research.com/newsletter/newsletter.php emails to: < newsletter@eagle-research.com > are automatically bounced except if a subscribe or unsubscribe because all those emails are automatically routed to a robot program with no one reading them, so you'd get no answer. We wouldn't even know you'd written. 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