13:41:05 From Claude Buettner to Everyone: Question: Does your university group collaborate with the Center for Microgrid Research of St Thomas University in Minnesota? https://news.stthomas.edu/professor-mahmoud-kabalan-receives-nsf-career-award-for-microgrid-research/ 13:43:42 From Richard van der Jagt to Everyone: C: too bad we are not where Norway is 13:44:00 From William Rees to Everyone: I wonder whether your lab is 'off-grid'? Why or why not? 13:45:21 From Ralph Torrie to Everyone: The previous chart must be US data. There are perhaps 23 million vehicles under 4500 kg in Canada... 13:47:08 From Peter Bulkowski to Everyone: Will the charging stations be funded by the government, increasing taxes & debt? 13:48:27 From William Rees to Everyone: Why not standardized batteries and 'no-wait' battery exchange stations instead of charging stations? 13:48:35 From Phil Reilly to Everyone: I’ll have trio of practical questions about EV usage . 13:49:18 From Sucha’s iPhone to Everyone: I thought, Tesla-3 450km, can booster charge in 20m ? 13:49:52 From Richard van der Jagt to Everyone: I know the Ioniq 5 can get 80% charge in 18 mins 13:53:43 From Claude Buettner to Everyone: Question: Is PRT, or Personal Rapid Transit, still studied and discussed as a viable way forward for mass transportation (distributed network of guideways for geographic coverage)? Or has the dream of private autonomously driven vehicles overtaken such centralized designs. (For reference: https://www.advancedtransit.org/library/news/dr-j-edward-anderson-receives-atra-award/ (PS: Dr. Anderson is still available for discussions, living in Fridley, MN.) 13:57:39 From Claude Buettner to Everyone: Comment: Bravo on your universal charger! Care to share a target price? 14:02:11 From Richard van der Jagt to Everyone: I will sign up to be a place of your experimentation:) 14:06:58 From Claude Buettner to Everyone: Question: What is the current efficiency of Wireless Charging from the road surface? What is the assumed maximum efficiency after maturity of this technology? 14:09:09 From William Rees to Everyone: At present, all this impressive equipment and tech is manufactured using fossil fuels. When will the basic mining, refining, manufacturing, maintenance, etc., be electrified and self-sufficient? 14:09:33 From Ted Manning to Everyone: Who pays for the drive-by charging and what is the technology to log use and obtain payment? 14:09:44 From Peter Bulkowski to Everyone: Range will not be an issue? Most of Canada is not southern Ontario. E.g. Highway 11 through Hearst? Thunder Bay to Winnipeg? 14:09:51 From Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering to Everyone: Technical question. Can you comment on CV-2X and Canada's position on it? Thanks 14:13:55 From John Meyer to Everyone: Peter, A couple of different friends made the Southern Ontario to Banff trip and back in EVs in the dead of winter, this year and last, with no real problems. Certainly they had to plan as anyone would have to but they experienced severe temps without hardship or "scares". 14:18:01 From Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering to Art Hunter - CACOR(Direct Message): Q: What are the leading new materials in battery technology? Thanks 14:22:15 From Richard van der Jagt to Everyone: C: we need your team to help build a reliable and clean system in Ottawa 14:25:51 From Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering to Art Hunter - CACOR(Direct Message): Q: Can you comment on the university's microgrid in its scale and power source(s)? Does it partner with the local utility? 14:26:05 From Richard van der Jagt to Art Hunter - CACOR(Direct Message): I wonder if we should ask him to review our proposal to Manor Park? 14:33:34 From John Meyer to Everyone: This could be a question if Sheldon wants to comment on it. The point is that the rise of electricity as a replacement for fossil fuels has obscured the fact that one of the great strengths of fossil fuels is the heat they produce. Heat is essential in northern regions like Canada. Electricity is an expensive heat producer if used directly but very cheap if it is used to drive geothermal storage systems. Here electricity can be used to harvest rather than directly generate heat. The multiplier factor (Coefficient of Performance - COP) can be as high as 30:1. Have you looked at the heat opportunities/obstacles of an entirely electrified energy system? 14:46:10 From Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering to Art Hunter - CACOR(Direct Message): Q: What about geothermal for electricity and heat? 14:53:02 From Claude Buettner to Everyone: It's called depreciation. The used car market will take care of lower range as buyers who can live with less range would still be interested in buying a used EV. 14:57:55 From William Rees to Everyone: I hesitate to raise this again, but we should not be excessively mesmerized by technological wizardry. The world is in general ecological overshoot of which carbon dioxide emissions are only one symptom. (Indeed, most environmental problems are the results of previous techno-advances.) My real concern is that if all this tech actually works out, it would enable 'business-as-usual-via-alternative-means' including continued material growth -- massive increases in demand for everything -- and thus accelerated erosion of the ecosphere and essential life-support functions. So, to me, the new electrical/non fossil-fueled age must still be accompanied by contraction of the global material economy and human population. 14:58:14 From Richard van der Jagt to Everyone: is there not an app that tells you where the nearest available charger is? 15:02:47 From Claude Buettner to Everyone: Battery exchange would be similar to the Propane Tank model. Paying for the occasion battery that needs to be replaced has to be built into the charges one pays when the battery is swapped. If batteries can be designed to be a commodity this should be manageable. 15:08:28 From John Meyer to Everyone: Battery swapping is being done by one or two EV manufacturers in China, Vietnam with swap shops in Norway. It looks very tedious to me with heavy infrastructure costs and I don't see it taking off. More, many more charging stations are the answer IMHO. 15:19:19 From Peter MacKinnon uOttawa Engineering to Art Hunter - CACOR(Direct Message): Canada introduced the Conserver Society in the 1970s shortly after creating Environment Canada. A program to reduce consumption.