Lithium batteries, not worth it

And ice core samples definitive show that the planets heated up BEFORE CO2 levels rose.

CO2 is part of the cycle of life. And it is a tiny fraction of the atmosphere. Human addition of CO2 are a tiny, tiny fraction of that.

On the other hand, the HOLY MOTHER of green house gasses is water vapor. By the Left has not figure a way to take our freedon and treasure over water vapor. Good old hydrogen hydroxide!

On second thought, I should not give them any ideas.

There were other factors but the state is trying to decide what to do with a 2.6 billion dollar budget surplus.

I worked for a company with a glass blowing operation for strobe light tubes. Soda glass can be worked with an oxy-acetylene flame but quartz glass requires oxy-hydrogen. When we went down to get a permit you could see the clerk adding 'bomb' every time we said hydrogen. It was safer than acetylene.

It has improved but at the time the supplier would spot a tube trailer and swap it out when we needed more.

GROSS WEIGHT 60500 lbs PRODUCT WEIGHT 686 lbs

In other words, with the tractor you have a grossed out (80000 lbs) semi delivering 686 pounds of product. At that weight the semi would be lucky to get 7 mpg of diesel depending on wind and terrain.

I guess a AAA rescue truck will have to carry gaseous hydrogen and liquid hydrogen and what all.

Hi Frank,

Since coal can be made into gasoline, can natural gas be made into gasoline as well?

-T

Just an idea. Maybe they could fix some roads?

Where did I head they are carrying gasoline powered electric generator to jump BEV's?

Sixpack of beer in the cooler on the floor of the pickup. Joe's abs haven't been seen in 20 years.

What was that degree in again? Propane boils at around -43 F and a residential propane tank may reach 200 psi on a hot day, enough to keep most of it liquid.

Hydrogen liquefies at -252.87 C so you're dealing with a cryogenic liquid that's going to boil off unless you keep it (extremely) cold. BMW's Hydrogen 7 used an ICE along with liquid hydrogen. The hydrogen was a use it or lose it deal. As long as the engine was keeping up with the pressure buildup life was fine. Park it, and it would vent the over pressure. Park it for a week or two and the cupboard would be bare.

They're trying again with a fuel cell. We'll see how that goes.

Other than chemical bonding the other approach is compressing it to somewhere around 7000 to 10000 psi. Even with carbon fiber tanks getting a reasonable amount stored in a vehicle will be difficult.

You can make any hydrocarbon into any other hydrocarbon, but whether it makes sense to do that is a separate issue.

Wrong attribution... I never wrote bullshit like that.

"It is reported that the total amount of lithium reserves in the oceans is approximately 2.6 × 10^11 tons."

Harvesting it, of course, is not all that viable. We are starting with strip mining "lithium lakes" that dried up and made concentrated deposits. We start with the lazy sources, first. Those areas likely have a lot of salts in them, but we're only interested in one of the salts.

However, there are other chemicals needed to make the hardware, which are much harder to come by.

The Chinese are pushing Lithium Iron Phosphate. And Tesla is onboard with it. It's quite possible that every Model 3 now, ships with Lithium Iron Phosphate packs. Some of the older (more expensive) models, would continue to have Cobalt-based ones.

Cobalt and nickel are expensive.

I didn't know things were this bad, that the cells were roughly the same price ? How is that possible ?

"A second automotive OEM echoed that comment, "LFP batteries will be there for entry level vehicles, but not adopted for premium cars"."

And some of the recent astronomy articles on ars, hint at where heavy elements come from. Supernovas are a good source.

But we don't normally sit just outside a supernova, with a catchers mitt, because we'd be fried instantly by the infrared. A safe distance from a supernova, is a long long way.

"Earth would have to be at least 50 light-years away from the exploding star."

And we can't even manage to go the 4 light-years to the "neighbours".

"Proxima Centauri is slightly closer at 4.25 light years"

Paul

Yep, as long as you don't factor in the cost of maintenance and repair. Each wind turbine is likely to have a fault at least 3x per year and possibly 10x per year. A whole army of repair technicians travelling to far flung sites on the top of mountains has to be paid for in our utility bills.

More like a six pack of empty beer cans in the drivers footwell :)

If the climate alarmists are now predicting that a few degrees rise in temperature is going to destroy all the ice at the poles and the world's land masses are going to flood where do all these ice core samples come from? If the world was a lot hotter with elevated levels of CO2 wouldn't all the ice have melted?

Hereabouts, they don't even carry gasoline. They tow you to a gas station.

Do normal power stations not need maintainance? In fact don't they have full time staff?

Pitifull isn't it?

Actually they like it. As you would like more oxygen.