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Yes it is interesting to have very high performance solid state electric drives for vehicles, but they are rather expensive. They have proven themselves in electric and diesel-electric loks, but automobiles are not used for thousands of miles a day. Perhaps the costs will go down.

There is no need for a high power and high capacity battery. Bosch and others have developed flywheels for power, and the ZEBRA battery will not be far excelled, if at all by the lithium batteries. The ZEBRA can be reconfigured for capacity if a flywheel is available for the power.

PHEV. Plug-in-hybrids will give most of the efficiency and clean electric operation that is needed by most cars, but reduces the expense of the batteries and the weight. Expensive high performance drives are not economically justified for most cars that are stopped most of the time. Regulations will have to step in and limit the unnecessary performance of cars.

A device, now on the market, has rarely been mentioned in regards to EVs or PHEVs, and that is the home or office cogneration unit that can charge the battery and heat the house at the same time. Buildings can be cooled as well with the heat. Such units are the most cost effective way for most people and businesses to reduce CO2 releases. Configurations of commecially available devices can give over %200 heating efficiency on natural gas. ..HG..

A very good point from Henry Gibson and a mystery still. Distributed power systems could offer great benefits. But more broadly the problems we face are system problems. As such they have to be tackled using systems engineering methodologies. Almost exclusively there is has been a rush to apply bottom-up solutions.

Cogeneration at a household level is not technically difficult, but requires systems thinking for the energy and heating needs of buildings. We should have seen many companies figuring out the enormous synergies between hybrid electric vehicles and home energy/heating needs. However until now there is a void of interest.

Before everyone rushes to place an order for fuel cells there is plenty of scope to use IC engines running on anything from gas to bio fuels. Stationary engine/generator sets with cogeneration can achieve significant efficiencies for household applications.

I recall reading that in Denmark 60% of electricity/heat is from small scale, distributed generation CHP units while in the U.S. it's more like 2%. Would not the Cyclonepower 10KW unit be a good candidate. They plan to put it on the market for about $2000 and as an external combustion engine it will burn any fuel at 36% efficiency (fuel to elect) and 80% overall (fuel to elect+ heat). At $10 per million BTUs for the fuel that would be about 10 cents per kWh for the electricity and free heat.

The HONDA cogeneration unit has the highest number of installed units for homes especially in Japan. The LION steam unit from Germany looks interesting. The Whispergen from New Zealand uses Stirling. The ENATEC initiated Infinia free piston Stirling cogeneration technology may yet be done.

The Cyclone promoters are to be congratulated for producing a prototype, but they could have gotten more investment like Scuderi did by delivering only promises for years. The Cyclone inventors are to be also noted for attempting to use water as a lubricant, and they certainly should become aware of the 100 year old still cycle engine. Electric valves from Artemis might be useful to them.

A picture shows the possible use of pure carbon powder fuel or ash free coal powder. The percentage of CO2 generated by the use of such fuel is not much higher than that of diesel when the CO2 cost of refining crude to diesel is considered. The money cost can be a factor of five to ten times less.

Pure CARBON as a fuel may, at first, bother most anti CO2 activists, but if produced from waste paper or bio-mass, it can be more CO2 efficient than ethanol produced from bio-mass or even ethanol produced from corn. CARBON powder shipped as a stabilized slurry may be the cheap fuel of the future. The slurry has a lower water content than some coals that are now shipped, and the contained water may actually be useful in lowering NOX production during combustion.

Small and large business and appartment buildings should not ignore Capstone turbines. All are quite expensive but are a far better investment than solar cells. Energy standards for commercial buildings and large houses should be modified to require cogeneration units, and the units will pay for themselves in a few years. Any CO2 reduction efforts cannot ignore for long the possible %40 reduction available. Federal standards should be modified so that all such units can always at all times feed excess power into the grid at a price that will pay for the fuel and for a return on investment of capital. It might be even useful to have such units feed power into the grid and waste the heat to the air with simple radiators during high demand times. Such an operation will be cheaper than V2G plans with expensive batteries, or it can be combined with batteries.

Eventually all the excess heat can be stored in combination with ground source heat pumps, but it is important to be reminded that air-conditioning can also be done with excess heat. Small thermal units should be developed for this purpose. They may even be scaled up gas refrigerator cycle units.

It is obviously more CO2 and energy effective to burn natural gas to charge car batteries in cogeneration units than in the cars themselves. It would be more CO2 effective to even burn gasoline in such stationary cogeneration units. Engineering trade-offs economically require Plug-in-hybrid cars over full electric cars, and they will allow cars that have a wider market.

Recent drops in the speculativly high price of fuels in the US will make hybrid cars less attractive and less justifiable but enough experiments have been done to show viability in all markets when mass production becomes real for lower priced PHEV cars, but in the end it will be legal standards that will need to cause the change as with exhaust clean up, seat belts, crash bags, crash standards and, decades ago, sealed beam headlamps. The public has paid a very big price for little or no advantage when automobile stylists were allowed to use non standard lamps in any car. ..HG..