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----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan Cerny <ncerny at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:38 pm
Subject: Re:
To: "Monty J. Harder" <mjharder at gmail.com>
Cc: "jared at hatwhite.com" <jared at hatwhite.com>, kclug at kclug.org

> On 9/12/07, Monty J. Harder <mjharder at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Meanwhile I'm much more interested in the supercapacitors that are
> > supposed to allow electric cars to go 500 miles between 5-minute 
> recharges.> If I can buy one of those at a price point similar to 
> an ICE car, I'm all
> > over it, because if I drive 500 miles, I'll need to stop to use 
> the bathroom
> > or something for 5 minutes anyway.  "Gas stations" will provide 
> recharging> stations where you can plug in, then go inside and buy 
> cokes, smokes, chips
> > and dips, lottery tickets and maybe even cricket wickets.
> 
> 
> All Storage issues aside...can you imagine the size of wires it 
> would take
> to handle the current flow it would take to charge a capacitor 
> capable of
> running an electric car for 500 miles (using current electrical 
> engines of
> course)?!  Not to mention the havoc it would play on our electrical
> grid...massive capacitive loads being connected to the grid for 5 
> minutes?We would have blackouts across the nation from these 
> "fueling stations."
> 
> Before there is ANY chance of a plug in car that can charge 
> quickly, we'll
> have to almost completely rebuild our power grid...
> 

You're completely missing the point... we would have MAGIC wires... 
maybe made of condensed aether...
Oh, screw it. Back to reality.