electric cars

[Chryco Psycho]

I saw the Turbine Car at the MCACN show ... I'm just surprised that the turbine application has not been revisited. Turbines are so much more efficient than piston engines. In airplanes the turbine replaced the big radials and it has never looked back. Wonder why they never seemed to give it another shot??

Std Oil , Rothschilds or Can't remember exactly bought the program told them to cease & put it in the grave , not good for oil companies is the bottom line !

[Chryco Psycho]

1 word , Thorium !
Look it up far better than nuke , just doesn't have the side benefit of producing nuke weapons !!
1 more suppressed technology

[dodj]

1 word , Thorium !
just doesn't have the side benefit of producing nuke weapons !!

Kinda depends on who/what you listen to?  Google protactinium...from thorium reactors..

[chargerdon]

More on the turbine car.  As you know in addition to my 74 Challenger i also own a 66 Dodge Charger.   What you might not have known, is that the 66 Charger orignally designed to be the first commercially available Turbine car.   yep, it was...   But it never happened ...

For the full story on Chrysler and the turbine engine cars see:  https://www.allpar.com/mopar/turbine.html  Its a great story...   

[soundcontrol]

Maybe this is the future for classic cars...

[Chryco Psycho]

AT least batteries are clean energy https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/human-cost-ev-revolution
Not

[worthywads]

AT least batteries are clean energy https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/human-cost-ev-revolution
Not

I don't remember any concern for where cobalt came from for use in jet engines.  I wonder what is driving the sudden concern for conditions around the globe that weren't concerns until it rocked someone else's boat.

Tesla has been working to reduce cobalt.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-battery-tech-cobalt-mining-industry/

[YellowThumper]

AT least batteries are clean energy https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/human-cost-ev-revolution
Not

I don't remember any concern for where cobalt came from for use in jet engines.  I wonder what is driving the sudden concern for conditions around the globe that weren't concerns until it rocked someone else's boat.

Tesla has been working to reduce cobalt.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-battery-tech-cobalt-mining-industry/

Until now it was only a nitch market sacrificing only a few. Now that is is becoming mainstream, changes to safety has to be stepped up. Just like the Apple issues of years ago with Chinese child workers building their products. Small nitch company no one cares. Becoming the giant has its costs.
Same issue with the textile industry. Oooh... cheap goods. Oh wait, they are using unfair practices and child labor? "I did not know". Out of sight, out of country, everyone can just look the other way. For awhile...
Just because it was ignored before doesn't make it any "righter" now.

[worthywads]

Air travel isn't clean travel either.

Superalloys account for about half of cobalt metal demand.  The alloys are used by jet engines makers Rolls Royce, Pratt Whitney and CFM International, a joint venture between GE and Safran, to power planes built by Airbus and Boeing.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-metal-cobalt-aerospace-idUSKCN1IP1S4