Noggins wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:59 pm
Like when we had solar put on the house, why couldn't I make a portable battery pack that I could disconnect from the house and plug and clip into place on the van and use the solar that was already on the van ?
Then there would only be ONE purchase of Li batteries and be able to do 2 purposes........................ NAHH can't be done ?????????
Ron
Also this might be a good read
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/water-engi ... -time/674/
I'm now using the lifepo4 batteries out of my bus on the house, since covid the bus has only been used a couple of times. In the process of making up a trolley that will carry big battery packs around here to give me more power in the workshop and in the house if needed. Was a pain getting it out and used to carry all on the tractor to move it to the workshop, have started to build a trolley to move it around and tow with the small tractor. However since the VTX came along, been drooling over that and bringing it back to a decent condition, as well as learning heaps about it. Downloaded all the manuals for it, but the 2008 model which was the last, is quite different to earlier models. But am enjoying working on it and have made a couple of modifications to improve handling and comfort.
The problems with the move to EV's is there's absolutely no planning by governments, just ad hoc stupidity and agree with pumped hydro. You'd need the entire system enclosed to stop evaporation and that's a big undertaking, pumped hydro from the sea would be a better solution as evaporation would just go back to the sea from where ever it drops as rain.
Personally with the current approach and reach of the fossil fuel industries through the millions they donate to political parties and the billions in subsidies they receive, can't see any solution coming forward in the next decade at least.
There's also another problem with current EV development, it's become a closed shop, ev's rely upon the internet to function and can only be maintained through the manufacturer. Same with all machinery and modern vehicles, manufactures control their goods after they are sold, no different to microsoft and apple, you're at the whim and control of corporations and that adds to the expense of them and unreliability. Whilst manufacturing EV's without all the modern crap and internet connectivity would reduce costs considerably and develop small business which could provide service anywhere. Now if your EV stops, no reliable internet and you're not within a few klms of a service center, which are very few if any, then you're stuffed. Ev manufacturers are also moving to online sales, rather then dealerships, cutting back even more on the ability to get service. No different to taking out spare tyres, pretty insane in my opinion.
If you we looked at the situation as an observer, you'd find we are headed down a dead end street with the Ev revolution. Read in the past couple of days of farmers complaining about the huge number of wind farms being pushed onto them and the number of transmission lines and infrastructure they have to allow on their properties including transmission towers, which will collapse under the growing trend of climate change to create destructive weather patterns and we are already seeing the start of. Who knows how destructive these systems will become, as each one seems more destructive than the previous event and it's large population areas which seem to cop the worst.
It would be much simpler cheaper and more sustainable to put solar on every building with batteries, small grids and centralised battery backups, maybe some off shore wind farms to drive industry and or seawater pumped hydro towers and weighted generation towers. Then we may not have as many growing problems we are currently seeing develop. Seems the problems are growing and the fixes are dismissed or ignored, doesn't look good for the future of our young sadly.
