ENERGY AMPLIFICATION

[ariovaldo]

 
Hi Dave !

Probably this is the first time that I’m posting here, I’m too old to remember what happened 2 year ago….

I have been working as Industrial Electric Maintenance Manager for more than 30 years and after do everything in a conventional way, I’m feeling like you.

It is not possible that “we already know everything”! There is a lot to learn and find out and having guys like you, we will to nail that.

Sorry about my English.

Best Regards…

[Dave45]

The electric bikes sounds like a fun project, I kick myself I missed an electric car awhile back, we knew this old man down the road had an electric car for years I would go by his house and try to catch him outside, I wanted to ask him if he wanted to sell it then one day it was gone, should of knocked on his door.
Oh well if I had bought it I would have probably went down a different path, I would have been trying to build wind turbines to extend its range, just wasnt meant to be I guess.
I went the other day and bought 12 ga wire when I got back I realized I was using 14 ga, so today I went and bought the right wire tomorrow I'll finish winding my coils.

dave 

[Magluvin]

I have 2 fieros, one, v6 with 80 shot NOS and another stripped down for an electric conversion. 9in NetGain motor, keep the 3 speed automatic, add batteries, controller and a charger.
The motors might say 18hp, but that is continuous. Peaks can be 150hp. It only takes about 16hp to keep 60mph.

I like speed, but prefer efficiency. Electric is about 1/4 the price of gas to do the same miles. Gas engines are about 30 to 35% eff at extracting motive force from burning gas. We could probably easily get double gas mileage burning gas to boil water for a steam engine.

Instead of bringing a whole tank of water to a boil, work out a way to just boil small amounts of water in the tank, this way water can be pumped a bit at a time from the bottom of the tank to the hot steamer at the top, inside the tank, to avoid needing high pressure to pump water into the boiler, while it is pressurized, because the water is already in the tank. 


BP put out an article saying that electric cars are not a good buy and hybrids are the future. Yeah, right. Anything to keep us at the pump.

MaGs

[Qwert]

A polish guy transforms regular cars into electrics since 1996 or so. He also keeps a site; unfortunately, only in polish. Smile to @forest, he can translate if not busy. I also can translate but I'm lazy, too much tech terminology:
http://www.samochodyelektryczne.pl/

Also read this:
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/08/06/student-hybrid-car-project-could-bring-millions-to-tennessee-university/

[Dave45]

Conversion is not really the problem its the cost, a dc motor with enough horsepower is expensive then all the other components.
I wonder if the ac motors they use on oil wells would work there will be alot of them on the market soon 
That was not nice Im sorry