First, this is not my idea, but it is one that ALL innovators must become aware of because it is a game changer. Please visit this website:
https://lasers.llnl.gov/ It is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. They are working on a new technology called laser fusion. This is not science fiction. They will fire up and test the first one this year. What they are creating is an actual star in a controlled environment. Here is a bit from the site:
"NIF's 192 giant lasers, housed in a ten-story building the size of three football fields, will deliver at least 60 times more energy than any previous laser system. When all of its beams are operational, NIF will focus about two million joules of ultraviolet laser energy on a tiny target in the center of its target chamber – creating conditions similar to those that exist only in the cores of stars and giant planets and inside a nuclear weapon."
Laser Fusion generators could be on-line within 10 years and powering the planet in 25. Coal will go away and not be a factor anymore, as will most fossil fuels. This will require much political will and a revolution that will be powered by this generation. The power grid will need to be updated in order to recharge all-electric cars in 5 minutes or less. (Not everyone will be able to recharge them at home.) Chargers in business parking lots/garages should be subsidized. This will cost about $2,000,000,000,000, that's 2 Trillion dollars. This can be accomplished by A.) Increase cafe to 75 MPG by 2015, and B.) Add a tax of $1.50 to every gallon of gas. I would add 50 cents a year for 3 years. I know, that seems like a hard one, but we will be better off in the long run. and in just a few years it would all even out. 25 MPG at $2.00 a gallon is a lot more than 75 MPG at $3.50 a gallon, and in the mean time we are putting thousands of people to work building recharging stations and a new electrical power grid. We must get ready for the future now. We are only going to have this opportunity for a few short years. It's like your driving through the desert and your gas gauge doesn't work. Do you stop and fill up at the only station you've seen for hours? Or do you just keep going and hoping you have enough fuel to last until you get to the city? We really don't know how much oil is still in the ground, but what we do know is that it is a finite amount. We must get political and only vote for individuals who are on our side. (Note: Of all the money that comes from American Oil companies and goes into the pockets of politicians, 85%+ goes into the pockets of republicans.) Maybe I'll put together an organization like the Pickens Plan. I like Pickens but I think with laser fusion he is going to be put out of business with his wind farms. They will be good for 20 years or so and very green, but not the long-term answer. If anyone would be interested in joining a political action group that advocates for a vision of the future that Neil and I both share please write to me: voltdeville@yahoo.com I worked on the Obama campaign, I have lots of experience organizing. I helped to turn Indiana blue for the first time in 40 years, What we have to remember is the definition of 'Revolution: It is a 'turn of the heart'.
Pointing to a water-cooled cylinder under the vast hood of the LincVolt, Young described the hydrogen generator: "this thing called a 'slog' - this converts water to a gas through electrolysis. We're working with this gas made from water, which you don't have to refill. It just creates a gas out of water. It's displacing an unknown amount of fuel at this time and that's one thing we're going to figure out here [VIPER]. We've had estimates that it's displacing up to 70% of fuel at this time, but we really don't know.
PLEEEEASE tell me Neil isn't messing around with 'water gas' or 'HHO'. That's the biggest scam on the internet at the moment. If you are making hydrogen onboard the vehicle with an electrolysis process, the only thing you're accomplishing is giving away fuel. The process of electrolysing hydrogen from water is about 50% efficient. A generator is about 60% efficient, and internal combustion engine is about 30% efficient. Put 75kW of mechanical energy into a generator, lose 40% of that in bearing & copper winding losses, get 45kW of electrical energy out. Put 45kW into an electrolyser, lose 50%, 22.5kW is recovered by burning the hydrogen & oxygen produced. See where I'm going with this? The laws of thermodynamics and entropy will tell you that you will always get less energy out of such a chain of energy conversions, never more. He's not only not displacing 70% of his fuel, he's reducing his fuel economy just by running the electrolyser. I had some hope that Neil was funding LincVolt as a good, scientifically based test-bed for high-efficiency hybrid drive systems. However, upon learning that poor Neil thinks he's "displacing up to 70% of fuel at this time" with the hydrogen electrolyser (and reading some of the oil-company-conspiracy nonsense posted around here), I'm worried that LincVolt has become a wealthy rock muscian's conspiracy toy. Say it ain't so, Neil.
My best mates cousin has built a hydron fuel cell and placed it in the boot of his car the car runs petrol but it draws off the hydrogen into the carby via normal aspiration the result is a 30% increase in economy. So why not combine a bio fuel like ethanol with this idea thus using less bio fuel or say run a bio diesel engine but draw the hydron to boost the octane rating or run the bio diesel engine that produces and compresses the hydrogen for use in other applications like heating and cooling or gas cooking as the chef allway preffers gas hot plates Hydrogen is a fantastic storage device for energy rather than ugly dirty pollutting battery cells The amount of energy used to create battery complely out prices the toyota prius
