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RE: The Tesla Killer? Why Fisker Zombie-Motive Is Vaporware (AGAIN!!!)
The Myth of the "Technological Leap"
Well, you show some nice pretty charts that avoid all the technological leaps.
Yes, the internal combustion engine has increased pretty linearly in its efficiency. But the technological leap was in its creation. We went from 1 horse power (an actual horse), to many horse power.
The same with spinning magnetic media.
Before it was bytes of data, then it leapt to kilobytes of data, and has increased steadily since.
There may indeed be a technological leap in battery... or more likely, energy storage technology. Because the new thing will probably not be called a battery.
The thing about these technological leaps is that nothing in the past can predict what and when they will happen.
SuperCapacitors come to mind...or perhaps a hybrid of supercaps, fuel cells and advanced batteries?
Replying, like you replied:
You obviously don't know too much about capacitors or batteries...
Capacitors and batteries are not really interchangeable.
The supporting electronics is vastly different for charging and discharging.
That being said, Tesla called capacitors, condensers. Because that's is what they did. The word capacitor is a misnomer, a sales gimmick, making people thing that it has capacity. A capacitors "capacity" is measure in pico and micro-farads. And a farad is a small unit of charge.
Anyway, a condenser is not really a charge storing device. Electrical physics will figure this out soon.
And, a fuel cell is just a different way of converting fuel into electricity. Just like a gasoline powered generator.
You obviously don't know too much about capacitors or batteries...
that was rather rude.
yeah...I do.
apparently you do not.
I didn't say interchangeable..I said Hybrid.
Yes, it was rather rude.
I replied to you, as your replied to me. Using almost the same words.
Capacitors and batteries have two very different roles, and in almost every instance, they are used in tandem, because each has a property the other does not.
once again I direct your attention to the word HYBRID.
are you feeling ok?
Perhaps you should lay down?
take a tylenol..
I did no such thing...