Extremely Urgent!

We can Now Beat Our
Swords Into Plow Shares


By Annie Birdsong


A professor at the University of California, Davis, has made it
possible for us to get out of Iraq immediately by designing a vehicle
that fixes the shortcomings that kept electric vehicles from being
marketable.


One reason the automakers didn't want to build electric
vehicles was their limited range. While some of them could go 150 to
180 miles on one charge, a family might want to visit grandma, who
lives 250 miles away. An electric vehicle could not make the trip
without stopping for six to seven hours to recharge the battery,
whereas a gasoline-powered vehicle has an unlimited range as long as
there are fueling stations.


Now Dr. Andrew Frank, a professor of mechanical and
aeronautical engineering, has given electric vehicles an unlimited
range by designing a plug-in electric hybrid that runs solely on
electricity for 60 miles before an automatic shift to a
gasoline-burning or alternative-fuel burning internal combustion
engine.


"Seventy percent of all people driving would use no gasoline at
all on a daily basis if they plug-in at night," said Dr. Frank, adding
that "the remaining 30 percent would use only a small amount of
gasoline per day."


The vehicle could cut an individual's trip to the gas station
from 35 to 5 times a year and reduce U.S. consumption of gasoline by 90
percent, according to a three-volume report published cooperatively by
the California Air Resources Board, the California Energy Commission,
the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and other organizations.
Moreover, Dr. Frank added, "The liquid fuel could easily be ethanol
that we currently produce for blending with gasoline. Thus these
plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could use no gasoline at all and begin
to get us out of the Middle East and Iraq right now!!"

Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and former U.S.
Director of C.I.A. James Woolsey co-authored a policy paper on oil and
security in June for the Committee on the Present Danger that said
bringing plug-in electric vehicles to market is a matter of national
security.

A plug-in hybrid might be recharged at home when one is
sleeping and electricity rates are cheaper, or at an electric-charging
station in a parking lot when one is at work or on a trip. The
electricity might be supplied by a solar panel.

Dr. Frank said he envisions automobile drivers having a windmill
to generate electricity to recharge their automobile. Wind is not
always reliable in some places, so he said people would need a battery
to store the wind mill's surplus power so there is always enough
electricity.


The plug-in hybrid can run solely on gasoline or ethanol if you
forgot to recharge the batteries, "but it would cost three times as
much to do your daily travel that day," said Dr. Frank. But it would
still be cheaper than running a conventional car since the plug-in
hybrid is very efficient. Running solely on gasoline, this vehicle gets
"twice the fuel economy of a conventional gasoline car," he said.


Dr. Frank and his students have reengineered nine sedans and
sport utility vehicles to be plug-in hybrids. One was a Ford Taurus
that got 24 miles per gallon, but now gets 68 miles per gallon after
the engine has shifted to gasoline.


To achieve this fuel economy, Dr. Frank did not merely put
batteries in a conventional automobile. He made the engine much
smaller and simpler, with only 15 percent the parts used by
conventional vehicles, as well as electronic controls, which means less
wear and more reliability. "Maintenance costs are much lower than
those of a conventional car," he said.


Furthermore, with fewer moving parts that have to be oiled,
highway runoff would contain less toxic oil, as well as less heavy
metals from grinding parts that make their way into waterways and
accumulate in the tissues of fish and other biota.


Dr. Frank's plug-in hybrid also fixes the shortcomings of
electric cars by holding down their cost. An electric vehicle with a
150-180 mile range is going to be twice as expensive as a conventional
vehicle, since batteries are very expensive. But the plug-in electric
hybrid only costs about 20 percent to 30 percent more than a
conventional vehicle. And the batteries last the life of the vehicle.
Moreover, according to Dr. Frank, "Once mass produced, the cost should
be about equivalent to the cost of a conventional car."


He said this technology is "ready to go." California even has
highway electric fueling infrastructure in place. Currently the state
has 519 electric-charging stations, according to the Department of
Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center. A community-owned power company
in Sacramento, Calif., has built dozens of these. For instance, the
company built a solarport, a roof covered with solar photovoltaic
panels over a parking lot at the Sacramento International Airport to
provide electricity for the lot's four electric-charging stations,
electricity for the grid to power 52 homes and shade for the cars.


Dr. Frank's enthusiasm for plug-in hybrids has inspired a group
of scientists, environmentalists, entrepreneurs, and consumers to form
a nonprofit group called The California Car Initiative, or CalCars.
Through their global online community, they have brought together
10,000 owners of Toyota's hybrid, the Prius, to appeal to the automaker
to "go the next step" and make its next model of hybrid a plug-in.


Joining Cal Cars may be the greatest thing one can do to promote
peace.


The Prius has an electric motor that works with a gas-powered
engine to improve efficiency at slow speeds and rev up when needed. But
it does not have a capacity to charge the electric motor at an outlet
or run solely on electricity for some range-except in Europe, where
there is a button that allows the vehicle to go on all electric for a
short range.


Two members of CalCars, Ron Gremban and Felix Kramer, have
reengineered a Toyota Prius so it can be plugged into a wall outlet.


There is talk among the members of the group about offering
their Toyota dealers down payments to deliver them plug-in hybrids.


The people at Cal Cars sneaking suspicion that Toyota is
planning to do just this. Read about it on the Cal cars website.
http://www.calcars.org


Joining cal cars means you don't want any more blood shed over
oil. Please send this message of peace to at least five people.

Except America is not in Iraq because of oil, but because of some human
egos, and fundamentalists of Christianity and of Islam.




"Annie Birdsong" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] oups.com...
: We can Now Beat Our
: Swords Into Plow Shares
:
:
: By Annie Birdsong
:
:
: A professor at the University of California, Davis, has made it
: possible for us to get out of Iraq immediately by designing a vehicle
: that fixes the shortcomings that kept electric vehicles from being
: marketable.

"øéòéï áøúåïý/Riain Barton" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Except America is not in Iraq because of oil, but because of some human
> egos, and fundamentalists of Christianity and of Islam.

The US is there because the brain damaged President has been conned by the
jews. There is no other reason. BTW, where are those weapons of mass
destruction?



>
>
>
>
> "Annie Birdsong" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected] oups.com...
> : We can Now Beat Our
> : Swords Into Plow Shares
> :
> :
> : By Annie Birdsong
> :
> :
> : A professor at the University of California, Davis, has made it
> : possible for us to get out of Iraq immediately by designing a vehicle
> : that fixes the shortcomings that kept electric vehicles from being
> : marketable.
>
>

In article <[email protected] .com>,
[email protected] says...
> We can Now Beat Our
> Swords Into Plow Shares
>
>
> By Annie Birdsong
>
>
> A professor at the University of California, Davis, has made it
> possible for us to get out of Iraq immediately by designing a vehicle
> that fixes the shortcomings that kept electric vehicles from being
> marketable.
>
>
> One reason the automakers didn't want to build electric
> vehicles was their limited range. While some of them could go 150 to
> 180 miles on one charge, a family might want to visit grandma, who
> lives 250 miles away. An electric vehicle could not make the trip
> without stopping for six to seven hours to recharge the battery,
> whereas a gasoline-powered vehicle has an unlimited range as long as
> there are fueling stations.
>
>
> Now Dr. Andrew Frank, a professor of mechanical and
> aeronautical engineering, has given electric vehicles an unlimited
> range by designing a plug-in electric hybrid that runs solely on
> electricity for 60 miles before an automatic shift to a
> gasoline-burning or alternative-fuel burning internal combustion
> engine.
>
>
> "Seventy percent of all people driving would use no gasoline at
> all on a daily basis if they plug-in at night," said Dr. Frank, adding
> that "the remaining 30 percent would use only a small amount of
> gasoline per day."

Oil costs tend to be very low for owners of cars that do low kilometers.

Also such cars tends to be very cheap ones or small cars with very good
economy favored often by women.


To replace it with a new car is often not worth it to the family. How
much petrol would a cheap car have to consume before the extra money for
such a car is made up.

Birdforms are my favourite beings.

Blessed be.

"Bernardz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:1124705434.8b71175ee4ac7e378ade120291d532ae@b ubbanews...
> In article <[email protected] .com>,
> [email protected] says...
>> We can Now Beat Our
>> Swords Into Plow Shares
>>
>>
>> By Annie Birdsong
>>
>>
>> A professor at the University of California, Davis, has made it
>> possible for us to get out of Iraq immediately by designing a vehicle
>> that fixes the shortcomings that kept electric vehicles from being
>> marketable.
>>
>>
>> One reason the automakers didn't want to build electric
>> vehicles was their limited range. While some of them could go 150 to
>> 180 miles on one charge, a family might want to visit grandma, who
>> lives 250 miles away. An electric vehicle could not make the trip
>> without stopping for six to seven hours to recharge the battery,
>> whereas a gasoline-powered vehicle has an unlimited range as long as
>> there are fueling stations.
>>
>>
>> Now Dr. Andrew Frank, a professor of mechanical and
>> aeronautical engineering, has given electric vehicles an unlimited
>> range by designing a plug-in electric hybrid that runs solely on
>> electricity for 60 miles before an automatic shift to a
>> gasoline-burning or alternative-fuel burning internal combustion
>> engine.
>>
>>
>> "Seventy percent of all people driving would use no gasoline at
>> all on a daily basis if they plug-in at night," said Dr. Frank, adding
>> that "the remaining 30 percent would use only a small amount of
>> gasoline per day."
>
> Oil costs tend to be very low for owners of cars that do low kilometers.
>
> Also such cars tends to be very cheap ones or small cars with very good
> economy favored often by women.

Just came back from Europe. Gas in Spain is about $5.00 a gallon, in France
it is over $6.00 per gallon. Most fuel is consumed by the trucks delivering
goods, including food. Solution to fuel shortage is not in small cars, it
helps, but the solution is in alternative energy. Drive through the Basque
countryside, and what you see all over the mountains are wind turbines,
thousands of them. Just one example how alternative energy may help to save
fuel, and reduce pollution.

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
>
> "Bernardz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:1124705434.8b71175ee4ac7e378ade120291d532ae@b ubbanews...
> > In article <[email protected] .com>,
> > [email protected] says...
> >> We can Now Beat Our
> >> Swords Into Plow Shares
> >>
> >>
> >> By Annie Birdsong
> >>
> >>
> >> A professor at the University of California, Davis, has made it
> >> possible for us to get out of Iraq immediately by designing a vehicle
> >> that fixes the shortcomings that kept electric vehicles from being
> >> marketable.
> >>
> >>
> >> One reason the automakers didn't want to build electric
> >> vehicles was their limited range. While some of them could go 150 to
> >> 180 miles on one charge, a family might want to visit grandma, who
> >> lives 250 miles away. An electric vehicle could not make the trip
> >> without stopping for six to seven hours to recharge the battery,
> >> whereas a gasoline-powered vehicle has an unlimited range as long as
> >> there are fueling stations.
> >>
> >>
> >> Now Dr. Andrew Frank, a professor of mechanical and
> >> aeronautical engineering, has given electric vehicles an unlimited
> >> range by designing a plug-in electric hybrid that runs solely on
> >> electricity for 60 miles before an automatic shift to a
> >> gasoline-burning or alternative-fuel burning internal combustion
> >> engine.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Seventy percent of all people driving would use no gasoline at
> >> all on a daily basis if they plug-in at night," said Dr. Frank, adding
> >> that "the remaining 30 percent would use only a small amount of
> >> gasoline per day."
> >
> > Oil costs tend to be very low for owners of cars that do low kilometers.
> >
> > Also such cars tends to be very cheap ones or small cars with very good
> > economy favored often by women.
>
> Just came back from Europe. Gas in Spain is about $5.00 a gallon, in France
> it is over $6.00 per gallon. Most fuel is consumed by the trucks delivering
> goods, including food.

Actually its private cars that consume most of the oil.

> Solution to fuel shortage is not in small cars, it
> helps, but the solution is in alternative energy.


Such as!!!

> Drive through the Basque
> countryside, and what you see all over the mountains are wind turbines,
> thousands of them. Just one example how alternative energy may help to save
> fuel,


In countries that use oil for electric power production it might help.

The main problem is that wind power is variable. Say I offer you
expensive electricity and supply you with a low quality electricity for
approx 22 minutes in an hour. No guarantees when the power comes or what
the voltage will be. You may find it fine for some applications eg
heating water in a tank,maybe a fridge or pumping water out of a dam
etc. Not much use for much of the home where it might blow your
electronics. The only solution is either have a coal or nuclear power
plant in reserve. When the wind power cuts out, increase the output from
the other too. The problem is here that neither coal nor nuclear plants
can be easily turned up or down. The best solution is use wind with
hydro.

Wind power may at best supplement existing electricity grids probably up
to 10% although some estimates go as high as 30%.


> and reduce pollution.

Spain and France have plenty of hydroelectric power. When the wind dies
they can switch them on. If you use coal like Australia and the US, you
need suddenly to increase the power as the wind dies, the amount of
pollution released goes up dramatically.




>

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