Re: Quasiturbine and the Air Car

From: Eunometic (eunometic_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: 17 Oct 2004 19:24:29 -0700

"Saint-Hilaire" <saint-hilaire@promci.qc.ca> wrote in message news:<1097778629.1R/3GGcFdSczogU2T0cEJQ@teranews>...
> Bonjour,
>
> I already wrote :
> Opponents to air car and other alternatives mis the point
> when ignoring our fundamental human society problem :
> We use to much energy and power !
>
> One day, once we will accept (or be force to accept)
> to use much less energy and power,
> Internal combustion 1/2 HP engine will still be one of the solution,
> as well as electric battries, air car, Stirling, solar,
> nuclear pellets, coil springs or twist rubber band,
> gravity energy storage, humain power, etc.
>

However although 80% of people probably travel no more than 50 km/day
for
80% of their journies occaisionally they may want to do more. This
influences their purchasing decisions: if you don't have the range to
visit your grandparents every second weekend the electric car will
miss out unless it is only a second family car.

I believe if we reduced the speed of traffic that electric cars had to
keep up with then their range (and safety) would go up and their costs
would come down dramatically. Are we prepared to trundle along at
40-50km/hr (25mph-30mph) in a glorified golf cart?

I think if that's what it came down to: yes. This level of comfort
and covenience is much better than a horse or carriage and journey
times won't go up proportinatly: a lower speeds traffic density can
increase without incurring traffic jams and such vehicles will be
physically much smaller.

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