REFLECTOR: electric Velocity

[Douglas Holub]

The Ballard fuel cell Mark 902 generates 85kW continuously at 282 volts, weighs 212 lbs, and requires 2.7 cubic feet of space. It costs "tens of thousands of dollars." The hydrogen tanks would weigh about 200 lbs to take you 1000 miles. I'll start working on this right away.

Doug
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Douglas Holub 
  To: reflector at tvbf.org 
  Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:53 PM
  Subject: REFLECTOR: electric Velocity


  Scott's latest adventure reminds me how complicated the internal combustion engine is. I can't wait to put an electric motor in my V. Decades away? We'll see. It's hard to design an electric car that makes sense today because automotive engines are so cheap. $2000 buys you a great automotive engine. But airplane engines cost $25,000, and that buys a lot of hi-tech batteries (or fuel cells or capacitors.)

  Quiet, smooth, no loss of power at altitude, simple, virtually no maintenance-- it will revolutionize GA. You heard it here first.

  Doug Holub


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