HardEric

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by HardEric 6y ago
saying we need produce more waste to recycle car batteries is like saying we need more CO2 emissions to actually cause more climate change so no can pretend it does not exist. lithium AA batteries are recycled, a 2000 lb battery is signifi
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by HardEric 6y ago
actually the research on why electric car batteries are not being recycled is because every car is too proprietary and it costs too much infrastructure to change for each battery manufacturer. Lithium has a lot of value so recyclers want t
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by HardEric 6y ago
you can throw away the 5k of engine and drivetrain components, and then throw in 6k in electric motors, transaxles/transmissions and added copper wiring From the vehicles I have actually built and weighed there is a much larger increas
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by HardEric 6y ago
Clearly you see the business plan!
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by HardEric 6y ago
actually adding 15,000 lb of battery to the truck reduces its efficiency significantly. Imagine loosing 15k of payload when you only had 60k to begin with, your new payload of 45k means you have to drive the route 4 times compared to 3 time
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by HardEric 6y ago
I encourage you to check out the draw down project ( https://drawdown.org/solutions/table-of-solutions ), sort the list from largest impact and you will see " Managed Grazing" has the potential to have a 27%
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by HardEric 6y ago
integration with generators at the CO2 consumers site, cut out the shipping costs, that's an interesting thought experiment!
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by HardEric 6y ago
I'm surprised to hear this distinction. I've had my CDL for 15 years and worked on trucks for about a decade allover the east coast and found that when talking to the general public semi truck was the best way to talk about Class
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by HardEric 6y ago
I think the concern with capturing CO2 on this small scale is the network required to go pick it up. Still an interesting thought experiment and maybe that'll be a future market. Hopefully we can convert home heating systems like yours
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by HardEric 6y ago
Thanks so much! We appreciate all the words of encouragement
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by HardEric 6y ago
they do not. At least so far we have not had a regulatory hurdle that requires hazmat. Mostly because the CO2 is not flammable nor toxic (unless in a confined space, but hard to imagine a semi truck being in a confined space while our devic
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by HardEric 6y ago
the market for CO2 as a raw commodity is pretty large and growing significantly! I think your comment on the concrete capped price assumes that the price for producing CO2 does not increase. If current concrete produces CO2 (which it does p
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by HardEric 6y ago
there are lots of uses for concentrated CO2. A few current uses include dry ice (shipping vaccines or other medical supplies), green houses, concrete, beverage carbonization, pumping it under ground into depleted oil wells for permanent sto
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by HardEric 6y ago
this is a very detailed and thoughtful question! We have 2 or more chambers, we are balancing the number of chambers so that a chamber is always adsorbing while the other one (or 2) is transitioning temperature or holding a hot cycle to re
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by HardEric 6y ago
For sure we want to capture CO2 from all the combustion engines in use, starting with the largest emitters puts trains and cargo ships next on the list. Lots of work to do to adapt our technology to those markets, but we love inventing new
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by HardEric 6y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, we agree a pretty cool partnership! Imagine one stop where you offload and refueling with synthetic fuel made from your previous exhaust. Pretty neat idea.
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by HardEric 6y ago
You are onto something! The video is a proof of concept, so it has the components and performs the adsorption and such but could not capture or store enough for a 600 mi drive cycle. We are compressing the CO2 significantly, and currently w
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by HardEric 6y ago
very true, but that's what a life cycle analysis is used for. Take all the emissions from manufacturing, use, and end of life. For this reason there are no zero emissions technologies (solar panels, electric car, cloth bags, even human
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by HardEric 6y ago
some great points! We agree why let the CO2 out into the atmosphere and then try to grab it, lets grab it right at the source. Biofuels like corn to ethanol might take too much land area, but the potential to get biofuels from algae or poop
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by HardEric 6y ago
potentially yes that could be a market we expand to. We want to capture all the engine exhaust CO2 we can! So maybe trains as well. There are different exhaust compositions for the engines on these different vehicles, in part because they u
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by HardEric 6y ago
the first part I ordered was an aluminum part, it was delivered on time and made properly (completely finished, e.g. no burs and such). Very convenient. -Cheers