Energized Matter

Communities Science, Engineering, & Security
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This is a place to talk about getting more for less, like EVs, solar, wind power, joule thief , or any thing along those lines.

List of EVs
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1788o8plXAhT_RAW6iCr0QTj3IzOx_1ys2qwW_ktYD9g/edit?usp=sharing

List of PHEVs (incomplete)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MBVQCX0BtIAyDBy3-jiVBz915KzmpU_6EHUYEDCgqvU/edit?usp=sharing

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To get started I'm going to share some ColdFusion videos

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Show me something good about energy storage, or better yet something beneficial to EVs that hasn't been bought out my BP or Exxon.

Edit: there was once some interesting research in super capacitors that had 25% capacity of batteries.

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You might find AA-CAES (Advanced Abiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage) interesting. ColdFusion talks about it in the video I just shared (Solar Power Plants | The Next Big Thing?) at 3:30.

I'm very interested in super capacitors.

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The great greatscott. good choice

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More on the performance side of things



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Oh damn I thought this was an Nvidia Fan Club.

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Oh interesting, I didn't even think about that haha

Edit: Changed the name.

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Geeky people who study things like red-shift found that the stretching of the very fabric of the universe is accelerating.
When you stretch something like a rubber band or the fabric space time you store energy.


http://www.calphysics.org/zpe.html
"Zero-point energy is the energy that remains when all other energy is removed from a system. This behaviour is demonstrated by, for example, liquid helium. As the temperature is lowered to absolute zero, helium remains a liquid, rather than freezing to a solid, owing to the irremovable zero-point energy of its atomic motions. (Increasing the pressure to 25 atmospheres will cause helium to freeze.)"
So Helium does more then make people talk like Daffy Duck! Who'd a thunk it??

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Pretty interesting, but it's almost an unusable amount of power.

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Now we need zero point modules

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Definitely would be nice, but for some reason I get the feeling that's not going to happen anytime soon :yum:

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We need to check in Antarctica.

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Storing energy in mountains instead of batteries via compressed air.

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I didn’t look at the vid, not enough time. But I have read of storing energy in old oil wells using compressed air. Also compressed air stored in bladders under water.

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I knew about the wells, but I didn’t know about the under water bladders. I’ll have to look them up.