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Martin Brown
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On 13/02/2015 04:51, John Larkin wrote:
I think you could well be right. Home batteries are going to have to be
incredibly reliable to be worth having. We have had a couple of ex RAF
NiFe 200 Ah blocks that were WWII war surplus and they still work.
The NiCads that replaced them were destroyed in no time flat by applying
the old NiFe charging SOP to the new batteries. They quickly lost
capacity and became useless bricks a very expensive mistake.
NiFe capacity wasn't as good but they were squaddie proof and could
stand an astonishing amount of abuse without complaint.
There were actually people who wanted a PT Cruiser?
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Regards,
Martin Brown
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:51:25 -0800, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com
wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:11:46 -0800, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/12/musk_to_unveil_home_storage_battery/
The article doesn't offer any clues as to the technology offered. My
wild guess(tm) is that it's something like this water based organic
battery:
https://news.usc.edu/64612/usc-scientists-plug-in-to-a-new-battery-thats-cheap-clean-rechargeable-and-organic/
It's probably going to use Musk's lithium ion batteries.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2013/11/05/tesla-considers-building-the-worlds-biggest-lithium-ion-battery-factory/
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/elon-musk-wants-tesla-batteries-power-homes-n305071
I suspect that most of the Musk ventures will eventually crash. The
I think you could well be right. Home batteries are going to have to be
incredibly reliable to be worth having. We have had a couple of ex RAF
NiFe 200 Ah blocks that were WWII war surplus and they still work.
The NiCads that replaced them were destroyed in no time flat by applying
the old NiFe charging SOP to the new batteries. They quickly lost
capacity and became useless bricks a very expensive mistake.
NiFe capacity wasn't as good but they were squaddie proof and could
stand an astonishing amount of abuse without complaint.
Tesla may well go the way of the PT Cruiser. "Everybody who wanted one
had one."
There were actually people who wanted a PT Cruiser?
--
Regards,
Martin Brown