I can see that eventually Li-ion batteries for vehicles will be banned. It's OK to take the risk with a few cells in power tools & the like but putting thousands of potential little bombs in a car is an unacceptable risk.

 

Yes - it's not like we have been using dangerous technology for transport for a hundred years and more.

 

The fire risk in lithium ion batteries will be eliminated in about 3-4 years in semi solid state or solid state batteries. They put a temperature sensitive membrane between the two electrodes to stop short circuit.

 

My understanding is that dendritic crystal formation piercing membranes is what is holding up the introduction of solid state li-ion. Won't a pierced temperature sensing membrane between electrodes still be a short circuit, rendering the cell useless, albeit perhaps more safely?

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I hope they will solve the problem of dendrites soon. Solid state batteries don't burn, so there's little need to add anything.

I hope they will solve the problem of dendrites soon. Solid state batteries don't burn, so there's little need to add anything.

everything will burn if its going fast enough even the sr72

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353392127616

 

did want a real copper one but fook them prices lol

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2024/12/sr-72-son-of-blackbird-could-be-a-mach-6-bomber-russia-cant-touch/

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2oHbGsG1Y:324

 

now if i was going mach 10 and had to get out fast going 7672.69mph how does that work then

 

 

It always comes back to the basics with BEV's :-)

I like the notion of ICE being "Air Engines" in that they use 13 times more air than fuel.

If only we could harness the hot air from poly-tic-shuns and sceance-tists there wouldn't be an energy problem! Haha :-()

440V? Railway overhead voltage is 25,000V. High voltage, low current, small wires.

Train power rails seem to be 650v - 1500vDC plus now.

Overhead power Trains appear to be 25kVAC

https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/travel-information/onboard/about-our-trains/railfans/electricity-and-pantographs

Still didn't hear a voltage quoted, did I miss it? 8-)

1,329 tiny snails released on remote island

 

"Conservationists discovered just 200 surviving individuals on the island.

Desertas islands, south-east of Madeira Image source, Gerardo Garcia/Chester Zoo

Image caption,

 

The snails are native to the Desertas Islands

Those snails were believed to be the last of their kind, so they were collected and brought into captivity. "

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxqep4zk3o

Train power rails seem to be 650v - 1500vDC plus now.

Overhead power Trains appear to be 25kVAC

https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/travel-information/onboard/about-our-trains/railfans/electricity-and-pantographs

Still didn't hear a voltage quoted, did I miss it?

I think the lowish DC voltages are used only for lowish power systems: the Tube, and suburban passenger multiple units.

 

Heavy freight is a different kettle of fish, needing much higher power, in rural areas with more restricted access to the electricity grid and so on. Low voltage DC has a lot of disadvantages for that.

 

I haven't studied it in detail, but there are a couple of things that would trouble me: (1) the 25,000V equipment on each lorry. How big, how heavy? Is it practical? I suspect difficult. (2) The network capability: lots of users close together, instead of only one train at a time; steeper gradients on the roads in places, so very high localised power demand.

 

I think an in depth study would probably conclude that a shift away from lorries to trains for hub to hub transfers, and improved turnaround times from train to road at the hubs might be a better answer.

 

I will watch with interest but not lose any sleep over it.

So safe? Say no more! Whoompf 8-)

So safe? Say no more! Whoompf

There is currently no proper high capacity solid state. The guy on the video confirmed that his was semi solid state. It doesn't have the fast charging capability and high longevity of solid state batteries. He can also set fire to it. Not if it was a real solid state.

Ilika’s solid-state battery safety test exceeds expectations

"Tests involved a nail penetration test, designed to simulate a catastrophic failure scenario.

 

"Ilika has designed solid-state cells intended to provide a safer alternative to high-energy lithium-ion batteries,” chief executive Graeme Purdy said in a statement.

 

“Thanks to SafeBatt and this study, we have now observed test results which contribute to a growing body of evidence demonstrating Goliath's superior safety performance."

Importantly, the Goliath P1 cells did not explode or overheat, and their external temperature remained below 80°C. This contrasts with typical lithium-ion cells, which can swell, rupture, or catch fire, often reaching temperatures exceeding 600°C."

 

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/1055552/ilika-s-solid-state-battery-safety-test-exceeds-expectations-1055552.html

 

cosmic power

More power just for the asking, ha ha ha, why bother with those "super" batteries! ;-)

Yes - it's not like we have been using dangerous technology for transport for a hundred years and more.

 

 

 

They should reintroduce the original name: Explosive Engines.

All the Pre-Registered BEV's are being auctioned off.

Bargains to be had with only few miles in 1 or 2 YEARS! What a pretty pickle, spoilt for choice?

Oh, and one might not get insurance for one's bev, or one's house. No service history may mean no warranty, wonderful :-)

Found this entertaining link about off grid life in BritishColumbia. A resourceful, family making their way without a grid connection. At first I watched a video about making wood gas from firewood to run a generator, but watched many more videos about their life in general.

 

You could never buy land in the woods here in the UK and build your cabin and just live off the land. The planning dictators would never let you do it. However - in other places, people are free to do as they like with their own property. How did we let ourselves become the slaves of bureaucrats?

 

Great watch -

 

You could never buy land in the woods here in the UK and build your cabin and just live off the land. The planning dictators would never let you do it. However - in other places, people are free to do as they like with their own property. How did we let ourselves become the slaves of bureaucrats?

 

Impractical romanticism.

• England: England has about 8.7% woodland cover
  
• Europe: The average European country has about 39% woodland cover
  

We cannot have that freedom with our population density, we'd have no woodland left at all.

 

I'd go much further with control, I wouldn't allow anyone to buy land since it is the birthright of all born on the planet. I would only allow it to be rented for the needs of the current generation.

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Impractical romanticism.

• England: England has about 8.7% woodland cover
  
• Europe: The average European country has about 39% woodland cover
  

We cannot have that freedom with our population density, we'd have no woodland left at all.

 

I'd go much further with control, I wouldn't allow anyone to buy land since it is the birthright of all born on the planet. I would only allow it to be rented for the needs of the current generation.

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And how did that happen?

 

UK population in 1950 - - - - - 50.4 million

 

Uk Population in 2024 - - - - - 69.138 million

 

 

And don't forget in England there are six million more people registered with a GP than the government thinks are living here so really, the population here is about 75 million, and 90% of that rise is from migration which is why you almost rarely spot a white person on the TV adverts these days, and why in London, over forty percent of the population were born outside the United Kingdom.

 

But of course, even in 1950 everyone could never have gone into the woods and neither would they want to do so. The point is if you do want to build a house in the woods - in your own woods... You will never be allowed to do it because after WW2, an over bearing government took control over what EVERYBODY and ANYBODY was allowed to do with their OWN property.

 

As I said - we are slaves - which as we saw a couple of weeks ago, YOU think is fine.

 

I did not comment at the time on your lauding of the Chinese Communist Party. You have made such remarks at other time too. You HATE the idea of freedom, in case people do things you don't like - such as driving a car with petrol in it.

 

Yeah I've noticed your fascist tendency (fascist in its true meaning - state control and no freedom).

And how did that happen?

 

UK population in 1950 - - - - - 50.4 million

 

Uk Population in 2024 - - - - - 69.138 million

 

You are living in cloud cuckoo land, even with 50 million that sort of freedom isn't possible here, but I wish it was:

 

Population density of England = 434 per square kilometre.

 

Population density of the USA = 38 per square kilometre.

 

Population density of Canada = 4.2 per square kilometre.

 

Even in Russia one can live a natural life in the woods with their population density of 8.5 per square kilometre and many do so there and in other wild places in their vast country.

 

Illustrating that is what this issue is about, space, not state control.

 

So leave out the unjustified insults, my love of freedom and hatred of avoidable control is far more obvious than yours, with much more of your life having been tied down to marriage and family.

 

Get your brain into gear and work out why I'm opposed to land ownership. It's my hatred of what happened long ago when kings gave away so much of our land in perpetuity to a privileged elite who then presumed they had a god given right to have control over us, a relationship I've fought against all my life.

 

Then consider that, by your definition of fascism, you are a fascist for favouring control over those 20 million irregular immigrants to prevent them from living and working here peacefully. Despite the fact that we used force to live in their countries, often living anything but peacefully.

 

Of course you are not a fascist for wanting to do that, you are merely in favour of entirely necessary control, as I am, but only when it is demonstrably necessary.

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Edited December 29, 20241 yr by flecc

More power just for the asking, ha ha ha, why bother with those "super" batteries! ;-)

You surely don't believe in getting free energy?