An open letter to dailyplanet@discovery.ca
Hi Natasha & Jay,
First thanks for the great show, but I thought you missed a crucial point in your story on Tuesday night (21-Nov) about the Hydro-powered BMW. When the gentleman who leads the BMW build team very quickly glosed over the fact that electricity is required to split the Hydrogen from the O2 I almost laughed out loud and wondered why such a huge fact was not pointed out clearly? ELECTRICITY IS REQUIRED TO PRODUCE HYDROGEN. Why I ask wouldn't electricity be used to power the car? Why convert the energy from electricity to Hydrogen, then explode it in an inefficient ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) to power the car? The BMW representitive tried to explain that occasionlly a German might wish to drive more than 500km to Hamburg or somewhere, but might not be able to find a Hydrogen filling station on the way, he sounded about as unconvinced as I am. Did anyone mention to this gentleman there is an extensive electricity network in Germany, into virtually every house last I checked?
Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that as soon as electricity is required, then why would you go to the effort to convert this to another form, it's just plain inefficent and costly. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE expose this fraud for what it is. And can you do a story a true multi-fuel car, perhaps an electric car like the one produced by http://www.teslamotors.com/.
Regards,
Simon
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More Info: Daily planet did a story last month on an electric sports car.
http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/view.asp?date=5/10/2006#
Electric boogie
It's an insanely fast car that can go from 0 to 100 km/h in three seconds...on batteries. Have a look at an electric car that can out-accelerate nearly every other production car on the planet...
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Apparently there are $40000 worth of batteries in the car to get from 0-100km/h in 3 seconds. I wonder, do you need $40000 worth of batteries to go 0-100km/h in 10 - 15 seconds? That's fast enough for me.
First thanks for the great show, but I thought you missed a crucial point in your story on Tuesday night (21-Nov) about the Hydro-powered BMW. When the gentleman who leads the BMW build team very quickly glosed over the fact that electricity is required to split the Hydrogen from the O2 I almost laughed out loud and wondered why such a huge fact was not pointed out clearly? ELECTRICITY IS REQUIRED TO PRODUCE HYDROGEN. Why I ask wouldn't electricity be used to power the car? Why convert the energy from electricity to Hydrogen, then explode it in an inefficient ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) to power the car? The BMW representitive tried to explain that occasionlly a German might wish to drive more than 500km to Hamburg or somewhere, but might not be able to find a Hydrogen filling station on the way, he sounded about as unconvinced as I am. Did anyone mention to this gentleman there is an extensive electricity network in Germany, into virtually every house last I checked?
Anyway the point I'm trying to make is that as soon as electricity is required, then why would you go to the effort to convert this to another form, it's just plain inefficent and costly. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE expose this fraud for what it is. And can you do a story a true multi-fuel car, perhaps an electric car like the one produced by http://www.teslamotors.com/.
Regards,
Simon
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More Info: Daily planet did a story last month on an electric sports car.
http://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/view.asp?date=5/10/2006#
Electric boogie
It's an insanely fast car that can go from 0 to 100 km/h in three seconds...on batteries. Have a look at an electric car that can out-accelerate nearly every other production car on the planet...
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Apparently there are $40000 worth of batteries in the car to get from 0-100km/h in 3 seconds. I wonder, do you need $40000 worth of batteries to go 0-100km/h in 10 - 15 seconds? That's fast enough for me.
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