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Posted this as a comment at Podtech.net

This car sounds awesome! I saw a concept model at Geneva Car show last yaer, and filmed it in HD but was too lazy to release my videos on the Internet from that show.

I wonder how fast one can refuel it at home in the garage. How about having the refueling station outside on the main road in front of the house and having a peer-to-peer distribution model. Thus one could add a Hydrogen refueling station onto a GPS and wireless HSDPA/Edge/3G connected device in the car that has a real-time overview of available compatible hydrogen refueling stations be them commercial or from other private people having a nice refueling station available for any FCX user to use in front of their house.

This way people could maybe get some money reselling the hydrogen in front of their homes depending on the amount of people who find and use their refueling station. Keeping this home refueling technology only for one-self I think would be a waste of infrastructure. The p2p refueling model could rapidly blanket the whole planet with Hydrogen refueling. And any store, café, or municipal parking spaces could be turned into Hydrogen re-fueling on the double-lane and Electrical chaging for electric cars on the main parking spot.

I wonder how efficient FCX is in terms of energy consumed for a tank full that does 270 mile range compared to using batteries. And how long time it takes refueling. And how safe is it with the home refueling system, possibly p2p refueling system and generally how safe it is to use compared to normal cars and electric cars. And how about the acceleration, maximum speed and stuff like that.

I posted this to the pprune.org:

I just saw some awesome looking videos of the Tesla Roadster :

Supposedly it runs 250 miles on lithium ion batteries, that it takes just 3.5 hours to recharge it. And that it has a faster acceleration than any Ferrari or other fast car using gas.

See the videos here.

And so I am wondering if this usage of lots and lots of small Lithium Ion batteries could work in an airplane?

Supposedly the Tesla Roadster is safe since if one lithium ion cell explodes that it doesn’t affect the batteries around it, thus there is no explosion possible with this system. Would there be some way one could just get a jet airplane sufficient amount of those lithium ion batteries in there and get the sufficient thrust to the engine to lift an A380 or any type of short or long range airplane?

I don’t really think it is constructive to question Global Warming. It’s a fact. And saying that the air industry only is responsible for 2% of the CO2 emissions is not a solution to anything.

The fact is each passenger on an airplane pollutes much more than if that person had stayed at home with the heating on and driving a car around to work and the groceries. That only a small percentage of the population of the developped countries yet fly on airplanes and with the development of developping countries and advancement of everyone’s living standards then many more people will want to travel on airplanes.

If Ryanair is investing some hundreds of millions in buying new airplanes, and that other low cost european airlines are doing the same type of investments. Why aren’t they doing everything they can to have those future airplanes be flying on renewable 0% CO2 emitting energy. There is hydrogen, batteries, biofuels, where is the R&D? Where are the prototypes flying? Where are the BBC documentaries about investments that airlines are doing in clean airplane technologies? Where are the facts about possibillity for clean airplanes? When do politicians force airlines (as well as car manufacturers, housing, agriculture, manufacture..) to move towards clean fuel technologies?

I want to see the concept planes, the prototypes, the proof of R&D activities, the tax incentives on companies having clean energy investments, the BBC documentaries about positive developments by the industry to solve the energy and climate crisis.

I posted this as a comment on MartinVarsavsky.com:

If Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and a few other billionnaires can donate less than 5% of their stock value per year. 1-2 billion per year out of their Fortune of 30 or 50 billion dollars if they sold all their stocks today, which they might not really be able to..

So to what I understand, it’s kind of like that they are just donating the interests on their fortune to charity. Which is great. And since they have to sell off a billion or more of their stock to do that each year, that might be the most and the fastest they can do it.

The thing I’m trying to say is that if a few american billionnaires can be convinced to voluntarilly donate even 5% per year of their personal fortunes towards international Charity, that’s great. I don’t know if it’s gonna be enough to rapidly solve all the problems in the third world and in the developped countries themselves which is said to be caused by capitalism or bad governments.

Basically capitalism hasn’t cared for the poor since there is no fast return on investment when one invests in the poor. And the Governments haven’t cared much for the poor neigther because solving their problems and seeing the positive results on the actions take takes longer than the election cycle.

Although most people in our societies probably seriously care about the poor and really want the poors problems be resolved even if it has to take some industry-wide long term investment movements and some visionary multi-election cycle political action. Hopefully some individual philanthropists can convince the industries to get together and invest in the poor populations and hopefully some courageous politicians will take the initiative for some big governmental investments in getting rid of the miseries.