Subject: Game changers General posted by WilliamStockwell on Saturday, December 6th 2008 @ 9:47 PM
After listening to Dave describe his regen shocks as a " Game Changer" I thought I'd list a few products that I think might be game changers.
1. An electric field fuel injector- claims a 20% increase in mileage highway 10-15% city also cleaner exhaust. does this by dramatically decreasing droplet size for more complete burn.
read more here http://www.magchargr.com/images/E-Spray.pdf
2. InnovaTek is testing a hand-sized microreactor that can convert virtually any liquid fuel into hydrogen, producing a portable hydrogen stream for use in adjoining fuel-cells.
http://gas2.org/2008/03/19/how-biodiesel-fuel-cells-could-power-the-future-and-your-car/comment-page-2/
If this works no need for storing hydrogen on board no need for a hydrogen infrastructure.
3. Cyclone engine a external combustion engine with the following advantages.
while this engine isn't quite as exciting as some it has an advantage of being a tangible product not vapor-ware
http://www.cyclonepower.com/index.html
4. Excellatron's thin film batteries, claims made are twice the energy density, 20x the power density, and 80x the charge cycles of Li ion batteries.
http://www.excellatron.com/index.htm.
5. Micro bubble technology with their carbon nanotube enhanced Lead acid batteries- 8x energy density, 5 min recharging, and 4x charging cycles of normal lead acid batties would pretty much make these batteries as good as Li ion at a fraction of the price- but even more interesting is the claim that this enhancement can be applied to other battery chemisties with similar results- do this with a Li ion battery and who needs eestor.
http://microbubbletech.com/CNTbattery.html
6. XP vehicle wild inflatable car- sounds crazy at first but when you read about it more it starts to be a really cool idea- I don't like all the internals the fuel cell with Hot-swap power cassettes sounds a little dicey- my main complaint though is they have this really cool skin technology and their car looks just like a thousand other cars- I'd like to see an updated Buckminister Fuller Dymaxion now that would be cool.
7.Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter System acts like a cross between a fuel cell and a heat engine uses heat the push hydrogen through membranes in a close loop -claims 60% efficiency in converting heat to electricity - in a engine which has no moving parts and can run on any heat source.
|