i got a dumb qu. why would you put a electric motor on a bike?
what goes through my mind is that its easy just plug it in on Friday and run it on Saturday or something like that but for go green people out there they seem to think electric solves every thing like no pollution ect but where does the power come from is created mostly by burning fossil fuels like coal you add a demand for more power more coal is burned that is inefficient by itself because heat is lost through the process lowering the pressure in the turbines ect then the power lines and transformers are highly inefficient then it goes into houses and stores ect and then for a electric car or bike then it charges a battery thats naturally inefficient you let the battery sit it losses some charge over time its a lot of power lost and then you get a electric motor thats inefficient by many means most don't rev that high and don't produce that much power for the weight most electric motors are only 20-25 percent efficient at the shaft so even if you make the power from water or wind or solar or nuclear it effects the enviroment nucler is nasty but produces lots of power but the unstable matter is gained through mining dirt and taking tons of it and adding it up and after you got tons of bad waste
(not that easily too long to say the whole process in engineering terms) then wind solar and water can only produce so much power if you covered the whole earth in solar panels (whole earth no gaps at all) there would only be enough power produced in one year to run all of ours power needs around the world at this current time if we go to electric cars that would not be true and you know that would be dark living under solar panels lol not to mention the fact that there would be no or very little plant and animal life and if you went wind turbines they only work well in some areas like hills ect there is no really good method to produce power even by water that effects the fish and plant life in the river or stream and on land around there too
the thing about go green people that i said is a generalization and not intended to offend any one here or any where its just what i see around here where i live and not viewed like that all over so in short no offense intended to anyone and sorry if i did
i just want to see what you guys see in electric motors vs gas engines?
and what you see for the future?
by the way i do junk pick and reuse stuff i hate throwing things away and i scrap metal and plastic ect i reuse i on projects ect i don't waste material i dont want to be viewed by this post as a earth killer or anything lol so
and no offense intended in this post what so ever
what goes through my mind is that its easy just plug it in on Friday and run it on Saturday or something like that but for go green people out there they seem to think electric solves every thing like no pollution ect but where does the power come from is created mostly by burning fossil fuels like coal you add a demand for more power more coal is burned that is inefficient by itself because heat is lost through the process lowering the pressure in the turbines ect then the power lines and transformers are highly inefficient then it goes into houses and stores ect and then for a electric car or bike then it charges a battery thats naturally inefficient you let the battery sit it losses some charge over time its a lot of power lost and then you get a electric motor thats inefficient by many means most don't rev that high and don't produce that much power for the weight most electric motors are only 20-25 percent efficient at the shaft so even if you make the power from water or wind or solar or nuclear it effects the enviroment nucler is nasty but produces lots of power but the unstable matter is gained through mining dirt and taking tons of it and adding it up and after you got tons of bad waste
(not that easily too long to say the whole process in engineering terms) then wind solar and water can only produce so much power if you covered the whole earth in solar panels (whole earth no gaps at all) there would only be enough power produced in one year to run all of ours power needs around the world at this current time if we go to electric cars that would not be true and you know that would be dark living under solar panels lol not to mention the fact that there would be no or very little plant and animal life and if you went wind turbines they only work well in some areas like hills ect there is no really good method to produce power even by water that effects the fish and plant life in the river or stream and on land around there too
the thing about go green people that i said is a generalization and not intended to offend any one here or any where its just what i see around here where i live and not viewed like that all over so in short no offense intended to anyone and sorry if i did
i just want to see what you guys see in electric motors vs gas engines?
and what you see for the future?
by the way i do junk pick and reuse stuff i hate throwing things away and i scrap metal and plastic ect i reuse i on projects ect i don't waste material i dont want to be viewed by this post as a earth killer or anything lol so
and no offense intended in this post what so ever
