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VK3API > FUEL 16.11.07 02:03l 57 Lines 1843 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Fuel for thought
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Sent: 071116/0050Z @:VK3API.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC #:63831 [Lilydale] FBB7.00g
From: VK3API@VK3API.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
To : FUEL@WW
Hi Barry,
Don't like to nit pick but............
Wouldn't the tractors be converted to enthanol?
If we won't need so many roads maybe the money could be spent upgrading
the
rail infrastructure. Perhaps the diesel trains could be converted to
ethanol or electricity as well.
And wouldn't it be simpler to use the ethanol only to fuel power stations
located in the crop growing area. The energy could then be distributed as
electricity to the end user point. We could even use the waste heat from
the power stations for water desalination.
With all the increased electricity we might even use that directly in
vehicles by combining the old electric trolley bus concept of overhead
lines keeping the car motive batteries charged up until they leave the
"highway". That is, charge as you drive until you leave the main road. In
that manner you could greatly extend the distance an electric vehicle
could
travel using only a reasonable sized battery. The battery would only cope
with the start and end couple of kilometers of each journey and there
would
be a lot less losss of energy due to storage losses
Such an apporoach may even make it feasible to retro fit existing vehicles
for electrical operation.
Plenty of secure technology around to ensure each vehicle was billed "on
the fly" for the power consumed.
It might be simpler still and safer to just cover the Simpson and Tanami
deserts with solar panels and leave the oxygen content of the air as it
is.
Seems at the moment we are using your VK2 power anyway due to the flooding
of one of our coal mines here in VK3...
Regards Tony VK3API
73 - Tony, VK3API @ VK3FBD.#MEL.VIC.AUS.OC
Message timed: 10:41 on 2007-Nov-16
This message originated in Lilydale Melbourne Victoria Australia
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