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Chevy Volt - 230 mpg Yeah right

Kenny there is work under way to use microwaves beamed from space. How it gets turned into power I'm not sure--steam, possibly.

No one in the posts that I saw has mentioned regenerative braking--I hear but know if that's part of the factors of the Volt getting great MPG.

In another life, back in '93 the company I worked for was engineering and building battery trays for experimental electric Ford Rangers. These trays were massive--made to fit between the frame rails and about 8-10 feet long and 1 foot deep. I believe they were made of a carbon fiber composite and seemed like they were about a 1/2" thick. Ford nixed the project early on.

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As far as batteries go, GM announced this past week that they are installing a battery assembly plant just a few miles from here in a half-million sq ft building. It's suppose to be the world's largest with 600 employees. The batteries will be made in Korea and assembled here. They're already talking about the next generation of batteries.

Curiously, I noticed the other day in Detroit right next to the region's largest salt mine someone is building a huge hydrogen manufacturing facility. The massively thick (think: nuclear reactor thick), skeletonized stucture is made of reinforced concrete and rises about 20 stories but not straight up; the face of one side is slanted--almost as if some took a vertical slice of the Hoover Dam. I'm thinking that maybe the sloped face could be a cooling surface for water to run down. I'm also curious of its proximity to a. the salt mines and b. the many oil refineries just south of it.

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