Comments on: Superconductor electric vehicle http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:22:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: sandro http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-314152 sandro Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:51:06 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-314152 Is it vacuumed? How does the cooling system works? Great idea for large motors like ships/submarines and trains because they are less prone to take heat from ambient air (large volume to surface ratio). Energy storage is still the worst problem but 10% improvement on efficiency on a 85%-90% efficient motor design is really the maximum we can achieve. The only improvement on this could be room temp superconductors, as someone said. Is it vacuumed? How does the cooling system works? Great idea for large motors like ships/submarines and trains because they are less prone to take heat from ambient air (large volume to surface ratio). Energy storage is still the worst problem but 10% improvement on efficiency on a 85%-90% efficient motor design is really the maximum we can achieve. The only improvement on this could be room temp superconductors, as someone said.

]]> By: Damien http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-243920 Damien Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:20:23 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-243920 Thank you to everyone who contributed to answering my question. Didn't understand what the hell you were talking about half the time but it was still interesting. Thank you to everyone who contributed to answering my question. Didn’t understand what the hell you were talking about half the time but it was still interesting.

]]> By: image http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-224007 image Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:52:48 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-224007 Nice, posters here are idiots, flaming over eatch other :) guns don't kill, only bullets. Nice, posters here are idiots, flaming over eatch other :)

guns don’t kill, only bullets.

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]]> By: eDave http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218941 eDave Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:48:42 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218941 So, if we're already going through the trouble of cooling a bunch of high-temp superconductors, can't they replace the batteries/fuel cells with a superconductor ring? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMES Seems like if you've got the cryogenic systems already, might as well use them. So, if we’re already going through the trouble of cooling a bunch of high-temp superconductors, can’t they replace the batteries/fuel cells with a superconductor ring?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMES
Seems like if you’ve got the cryogenic systems already, might as well use them.

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]]> By: Noticias de tecnología » Blog Archive » Sumitomo presenta un automóvil con motor superconductor http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218204 Noticias de tecnología » Blog Archive » Sumitomo presenta un automóvil con motor superconductor Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:38:44 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218204 [...] Lo dicho, que la gente se aburre.[Vía Uber Review][Artículo en inglés]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Posted by Alberto [...] […] Lo dicho, que la gente se aburre.[Vía Uber Review][Artículo en inglés]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Posted by Alberto […]

]]> By: Scott http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218201 Scott Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:32:18 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218201 What do you do if your engine freezes up? What do you do if your engine freezes up?

]]> By: Jcal http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218057 Jcal Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:02:04 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218057 This is tech that is research oriented for the future not better or worse served. Everyone loves hub motors since popular science showed them in the eighties. If you enjoy driving you're trying to eliminate unsprung weight not add to it. Superconducting advances would make better motors wherever they are eventually located, even if people still insist on putting them in the wheels and destroying handling characteristics of otherwise capable vehicles, and making motors vulnerable to road conditions plus without gearing runs at inefficient rpm's. Still want em in the wheels Ryan? This is tech that is research oriented for the future not better or worse served. Everyone loves hub motors since popular science showed them in the eighties. If you enjoy driving you’re trying to eliminate unsprung weight not add to it. Superconducting advances would make better motors wherever they are eventually located, even if people still insist on putting them in the wheels and destroying handling characteristics of otherwise capable vehicles, and making motors vulnerable to road conditions plus without gearing runs at inefficient rpm’s. Still want em in the wheels Ryan?

]]> By: Ryan http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218009 Ryan Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:12:02 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-218009 We would be better served to work on placing smaller motors in the wheel hub. A brushless motor already is over 90% efficient, if one is placed directly in each hub they do not waste energy trying to spin up a drivetrain then we don't have to worry about advanced or exotic technologies. The primary concern should simply be making a small 30 to 45 kW hub motor that is industry standard. Considering that a motor holds all the same components as a generator in-hub motors can be easily configured for regenerative breaking. The benefits of having four independently controlled wheel motors should be evident when thinking about various road conditions. We would be better served to work on placing smaller motors in the wheel hub. A brushless motor already is over 90% efficient, if one is placed directly in each hub they do not waste energy trying to spin up a drivetrain then we don’t have to worry about advanced or exotic technologies. The primary concern should simply be making a small 30 to 45 kW hub motor that is industry standard. Considering that a motor holds all the same components as a generator in-hub motors can be easily configured for regenerative breaking. The benefits of having four independently controlled wheel motors should be evident when thinking about various road conditions.

]]> By: Jcal http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-217970 Jcal Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:23:56 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-217970 Yoweigh - are you fellas in the same room. Listen up folks obviously if it's the only one ever made it's not a mass production motor. Sometimes ya gotta extrapolate just a tad beyond the headlines. It's a one-off demo that shows it can be done when advancing tech combined with a lot of production engineering will determine if it can eventually be mass market feasible. If the advances come then it will tie in with stationary, transmission and transport use, ok, k, huh; damn you fools need to relax get off the caffeines. Yoweigh - are you fellas in the same room. Listen up folks obviously if it’s the only one ever made it’s not a mass production motor. Sometimes ya gotta extrapolate just a tad beyond the headlines. It’s a one-off demo that shows it can be done when advancing tech combined with a lot of production engineering will determine if it can eventually be mass market feasible. If the advances come then it will tie in with stationary, transmission and transport use, ok, k, huh; damn you fools need to relax get off the caffeines.

]]> By: Jimmay http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-217922 Jimmay Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:39:32 +0000 http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/06/superconductor-electric-vehicle/#comment-217922 “That, any use in a confined space will result in anyone nearby getting high, unconcious and dead in that order.” high? from nitrogen? like N2? like over 70% of our atmosphere? i highly doubt it." Yes, our atmosphere is ~75% nitrogen. Its also ~20% Oxygen. Guess what happens when you breath in ~100%$ nitrogen.... you will get high, unconcious, and dead, in that order “That, any use in a confined space will result in anyone nearby getting high, unconcious and dead in that order.”

high? from nitrogen? like N2? like over 70% of our atmosphere? i highly doubt it.”

Yes, our atmosphere is ~75% nitrogen. Its also ~20% Oxygen. Guess what happens when you breath in ~100%$ nitrogen…. you will get high, unconcious, and dead, in that order

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