Webs’ Random Ideas

Just a great TED talk on the importance of food in our children’s diet at schools. The problem shown in this video is only going to get worse and it’s growing FAST.

Imagine driving a car to work on a Friday. Let it sit for 8 hours, and then aftwerword getting in and driving to Chicago. Most people would imagine doing such a task in their typical hybrid or standard combustion engine car. What if you could do this in an electric car? What if it didn’t take special space-age technology? What if you could do this with an electric car being manufactured right now with battery technology currently being used right now?

How is that possible? Use current physics, science, and technology and the solution is there, just hiddne from plain sight. To many of us, myself certianly included (until about 30 minutes ago), think about electric cars in terms of the battery being a “tank” for electrons. And in doing so the solution is impossible to find. What if the battery was the fuel?

Think of a car that can be charged at charging stations but also has a battery module system that can be swapped out for pre-charged batteries. Consumers buy cars without batteries included. The pay for the cost of a car and get a module that comes pre-charged. Then they charge the battery wherever they need to at charging stations and go to swapping stations for longer trips and such.

Now you essentially have infinite range on your car and it no longer matters how good current technology is. And as the technology for batteries and charging gets better, your fuel cost will decrease over time thanks to Moore’s Law. Where gasoline is actually increasing over time.

Where does this come from? One heck of a TED talk… check below. Also here is Shai’s website on the idea.

Ted Talk: 10 ways the World could end.

Wait… How the hell is that a positive note? To every problem there is a solution. We just need to get off our asses and implement the solutions.