Or lubricants, or any one of a thousand other materials derived from petro-chemicals...
Electric Vehicle Stupidity - Update Post 288
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Either it is a "bit" or someone doesn't currently reside in the real world...
It's called 3D Polymer Bonding, to replicate Rare Earth Metals…
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True, BUT when you throw technologies like regenerative braking into the mix, you can reduce those inefficiencies.
It still isn't a loss-less system, there's no free lunch, but you can recapture a fair amount of energy that way.
OK, please provide a link to more information about this groundbreaking "replication" technology. Instead of just throwing out a semi-plausible-sounding word-salad.
FWIW, when I do a Google search using your phrase "3D Polymer Bonding, to replicate Rare Earth Metals" all I'm coming up with are articles about new ways to PROCESS rare earth metals. NOT anything about CREATING rare earth metals from something else, or "replicating" them from thin air.
PROCESSING rare earth metals, no matter how sophisticated the process may be, still requires that you have the rare earth metals to begin with.
It doesn't create them from thin air. One of us is missing something here, and I don't think it's me.
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cmj8591
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I have an Air Soft M&P that "replicates" my real M&P, 2.0. Is it sort of like that?
Sigh. We have plenty ourselves for such ancillary needs.
Bound to happen.
venomballistics
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while your at it ... let's just convert carbon to gold with this process.
venomballistics
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yep .... Someone is missing the annoying little thing in both physics and chemistry called "Conservation of Energy / Matter"
The only field that might be able to produce something from something else is nuclear science where we have to wait thousands of years for the half life to render the desired substance safe for use.
That's as close as we are going to get here.
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3D Polymer Bonding is still in its infancy and as of yet isnt as strong as metal. It's gonna be a while.
venomballistics
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Regenerative braking cannot help you on a country road where you are maintaining a speed while traveling mostly non stop. More so of interstate driving. Here, they operate at a loss over straight ICE. Audi dominated LeMans with the R28 where regenerative braking could make a major contribution to the cause.
This is to say, I see value in the general concept though most of it's more pedestrian implementations are lacking. Still, it is not a universal solution even in the best of iterations
I suspect that the majority of this ridiculous agenda will do a 180 in January of 2025.
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Agreed. Like I said, it increases efficiency but still has losses, there is no free lunch. Obviously regenerative braking provides its biggest benefit in areas where you're braking more. Of course that is when it is needed the most too.
Like any other vehicle, EV's are at their most efficient and therefore get their maximum range in the steady-speed conditions of highway driving.
They're never going to achieve the kind of range of gas thought. It just isn't physically possible to recharge a battery that big as fast as you can pump 20 gallons of gas.
LOL, we have plenty for our ALL needs right right now - and for the next couple of hundred years - if we would just go back to drilling for it and producing it.
Less than 3 years ago the US was a NET EXPORTER of oil. We were meeting our own needs and had some left over to sell on the open market. We could do that again.
venomballistics
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very true for now.
The solid state types being slow walked to production are part of a solution that would make it competitive with gas.
While they can be fully charged from stone flat dead in 15 minutes or less, finding a power source to actually do that will be difficult. If I had to bet on it. it's ultimate form would look very much like the current state of electric with a few far flung stations capable of the true fast charge. but ... it would be a safer, and more robust car.
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School Bus too!
First, let me say I have a 2016 Chevy Volt and a 2020 Ford Fusion hybrid. Love them both. But the municipal idiots now think electric school busses are a great idea.
But, the kids will not be warm in the winter. And the bus can't do mid-day excursions or long sports team "away" runs. Some here are 230 miles round trip!
The schools will need diesel backups.
First, let me say I have a 2016 Chevy Volt and a 2020 Ford Fusion hybrid. Love them both. But the municipal idiots now think electric school busses are a great idea.
But, the kids will not be warm in the winter. And the bus can't do mid-day excursions or long sports team "away" runs. Some here are 230 miles round trip!
The schools will need diesel backups.
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25-mile daily commute? When I was a few decades younger, I could do that on a bicycle. No gas at all, unless I ate beans for breakfast.
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Re-read that. If you really mean what you said, you should apologize for posting and bow out of this discussion.
Did you mean something rational?
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