On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, Jacob Lifshay programmerjake@gmail.com wrote:

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 22:08 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:

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Apologies I am currently travelling and also getting set up to go to

Costa

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Rica to meet TEC University, there are a couple other really critical eco conscious projects other that the processor and the EOMA68 one that need

to

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get kicked into high gear.

No problem. just don't fall for the trap of doing too many things to do any of them effectively. :)

Got really nice team this time. Been planning for about 12 years.

Safe travels.

These involve transportation: both the vehicles themselves, as well as the

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powertrain. I am presently working hard to do the CAD Model on a

variable

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compression ratio multifuel SIMPLE and libre engine with extremely high efficiency, as well as kickstart an ebike conversion project that will dovetail into a "mobile battery and distributed internet franchise".

Neat!

And (surpriise) the processor will end up in the lithium battery packs, and so will an EOMA68 Card

The multifuel engine is intended for a TRIBRID drivetrain, involving

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electrolysis during braking instead of damaging batteries (yes, regen damages batteries) then injecting the mixed hydrogen and oxygen into the engine.

I think you may run into issues with needing a massive electrolysis cell to absorb the full braking power, since electrolysis needs low current/area in order to not waste a lot of power on overpotential or damage the electrodes.

Correct! Bill Ross is the inventor of exactly that. He uses Potassium Hydroxide as a catalyst, and nickel plates with 0.004 in clearance, 2.5v @ 50 A and you get enough hydrogen to add to a family sized car.

You may want to check out using supercapacitors instead, as a temporary energy storage mechanism,

No, because the voltage varies with current, naking it extremely difficult, electronically, to deliver the power back.

What the supercapacitors *are* good for is fronting on the batteey packs, directly at the controller.

The decreased resistance results in power being first delivered *from the capacitor* which protects the battery from high load.

since they have a very high power rating (in the range of 1000x batteries) due to not being based on a chemical reaction. additionally, supercapacitors don't need additional plumbing and don't need water refills. they also can skip the big energy loss of internal-combustion engines which are usually less than 50% efficient.

Funny you should mention that. Google 6 stroke engine wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IovhYvKpFRQ

Patents from 1880 and 1921 show that water flashing to steam when injected at TDC will not only cool the cylinder but will actually do "work".

As efficiency is a direct product of temperature differentials, the 2 extra strokes can result in a whopping FORTY PERCENT efficiency improvement.

The processor and EOMA68 have been part of a long term strategy that is

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just about to take off. However obviously I cannot do everything so have had to stop technical work on the processor whilst getting the engine etc up and running.

Ok, hopefully you will be available to help out with some of the more important decisions such as deciding if we should switch to Power or not.

Of course.

The purpose of going to TEC University is to see if they are willing to

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handle some of the projects.

that would be nice

Yeh we need extra (motivated) people.

Funnily enough, the Intel building in Costa Rica happens to be empty at the moment... :)

L.