Hydrogen from a AAA cell?

Are you trying to say something? It's not working.

Ah, so your real name is Homer. It all becomes clear!

Different from you, certainly. Not so much, from most.

Only a lefty would assume one would leave their spouse home alone. There is a clear reason you're not married.

I'm calling you a lefty because you are. Sorry if you're offended by facts (lefties always are).

You really are stupid. You think only 10-20% drive 100 miles in a day, once a month or more? Many have daily commutes longer than that.

You're always telling others what they should do. To translate into English (from lefty), replace "should" to "should be required".

Again, the facts are simply foreign to you.

Not insults. Statements of fact. You are a lefty, though it is interesting that you think being a lefty is insulting. It certainly would be if you weren't but the facts are otherwise.

Lefties do find facts funny. After all, for them, facts are a strange concept.

Lefties always believe the truth to be an illusion and, therefore, honest people delusional.

Sure you do, otherwise you wouldn't be telling others to do what you refuse to do yourself. It's the mark of the lefty, though.

Well, I proved that you're a liar, once again. You're still posting here, so there wasn't much won.

VW did something like that with their Bus-based pickup in the early

1970s. The gasoline-engine pickup had a locker below the bed, behind the cab, and in front of the back wheels. They stuck the batteries in there, on a frame - heavy as hell, but at least more or less centered in the wheelbase, and you still got to use all of the pickup bed.

The "fast charge" was to have one empty roller stand on one side of the truck and a roller stand with a fresh battery on the other side. Unbolt the discharged pack, roll it out one side, roll the fresh pack in the other side, bolt in, go. (40 years later, Tesla is messing around with the same idea.)

The pictures I have are kind of small but it looks like they used about

20 6-volt batteries, and I am almost 100% sure they were lead-acid. I don't know what the system voltage was. The electric motor went where the gasoline engine did and bolted to the same transmission. The motor looks to be very roughly about 12-14 inches diameter (30-36 cm) and slightly less long than the gasoline engine. I don't know what its rating was; the two different gasoline engines available in that era were rated roughly 50 hp (the Beetle one) and 70 hp (a fancier one). I don't know where the control gear (if any) went, but the gas tank lived more or less above the transmission, and that would have been a good spot.

The book says these were actually for sale to the public in Germany, but they didn't sell very well.

Reference: "VW Bus, the first 50 years 1949-1999", by Keith Seume with Michael Steinke. ISBN 1-901432-26-2.

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In fact the thermal solar power plants store about twelve hours worth of fu ll output as hot molten salt. If you've got enough molten salt to start wit h, it's not a problem to set up thermally insulated underground tanks with thermal time-constants of several days or longer. My much less massive hot water tank in England ended up with a 36-hour thermal time constant. I just recycled a drop-on insulating jacket on top of the foamed insulation that came from the manufacturer - the previous hot-water tank (which had eventua lly pin-hole corroded) hadn't had the sprayed-on foam insulation, so the dr op-on insulating jacket had been a good investment when we originally bough t it.

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The Australian study ran a lot of numbers, and found that it was sensible t o ramp up the renewables - PV solar and wind in particular.

Thermal solar is useful for handling the over-night base-load, but the capi tal cost per kilowatt is higher than PV solar now, and likely to remain tha t way.

Persistent cloud can be a problem for concentrated thermal solar, less so f or PV solar.

In Australia we'd just put the thermal solar plants well inland, where ther e's not a lot of cloud, and keep them far enough apart that it's unlikely t hat a significant number of them would be cloud-covered at any one time.