>LT ... Shipping is scary right now. Too many ships & too many older ones. Sometime in the next few quarters someone(s) is going to BK. I'm holding off until the end of the summer doldrums.
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>SHB ... Don't feel lonely out there on the ice. It's just a contest to see who would fall in first. What you describe is about what I figure is the process and would apply to the PowerCube and the yard switcher (best I can figure, it's just a moving PC). I'm not really sure what kind of "problems" that would entail that is taking so long to work out. The only way it makes sense to me is if NS is trying to fab-up a one-size-fits-all charging system that will work with yard & OTR locos. A mile long train with 3-4-5 engines might have 0-6,000 hp incoming and 0-3,000+ outgoing through the batteries at the same time. Boggles my mind.
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>Futurist ... I'll be the first to admit I don't understand the mentality of the penny stock trader. Ya'll fight & fret over a nickel when normally I don't much care about a dollar. The trend & fundamentals are what count and AXPW doesn't have either. If I was a less than dedicated follower of the invention and I'd looked at the 2009 placement as the floor, anything less would be a "Red Flag" of failure ... not a discount. I'd be looking at the last capital raise as the "Exit".
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>SHB ... I don't have the reference in front of me but IIRC the 'balance' problem was caused by inflow current. A problem that the PowerCube has to handle but when you get your power from the grid you have some idea how much is coming at you. The variability of flow makes the range over which this control has to work ... huge.
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>jlyleluce ... It was referenced by the NS Chief of Tech last fall (Sept. I believe) and it is in the current battery configuration. It was not the problem of the batteries but in the charging circuit or routine (he wasn't specific). Somewhere out there the link exists. I'm not at the right computer presently.
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>H.T. Love ... I would think flounders. Hiding below the visible surface with eyes looking up but not wanting to go there but for a brief instant to catch some food.
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>JP ... I don't see any problem with them working together in consists. I'm not sure how well the Zebra does at accepting high current inflow. There still seems to be some sort of current flow distribution problem with PbC in the NS configuration (NS referred to a "balance" problem) and I was thinking that dumping all that heat into the salt could act as a buffer. Can you point me toward some data?
Regardless, in the GE genset, there doesn't seem to be enough energy there to do the work required for grade climbing or the capacitance to do standing stop rotor breaking. So you get one set of batteries to add horsepower as needed and the other to maintain the diesel within the power band.
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>JP ... You won't hear much out of GE on their battery until they complete their new factory north of Ft. Worth (late 2013-14). Production of hybrid locos is the focus of this factory. I think a tie-up of GE & Axion (NS OTR) would be great.
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>MAP ... Next Grid? I don't know what you mean.
For battery adoption, as in "PowerCube" but any at all, I'm looking for small demonstrations out 2015-2020 before large utilities will want them. Mind you that demonstrations would be big business to Axion and not so much to 'over-built' capacity vendors like A123. What I'm counting on is some commercial entity jumping the gun off good preliminary results with utilities, like say, a shopping mall time shifting their AC load or Walmart.
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>MAP ... I get the feeling that you might think that Axion is further down the road than it really is. Vani, I believe, is an auto guy but VE is full of grid sales experts.
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Regardless, in the GE genset, there doesn't seem to be enough energy there to do the work required for grade climbing or the capacitance to do standing stop rotor breaking. So you get one set of batteries to add horsepower as needed and the other to maintain the diesel within the power band.
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For battery adoption, as in "PowerCube" but any at all, I'm looking for small demonstrations out 2015-2020 before large utilities will want them. Mind you that demonstrations would be big business to Axion and not so much to 'over-built' capacity vendors like A123. What I'm counting on is some commercial entity jumping the gun off good preliminary results with utilities, like say, a shopping mall time shifting their AC load or Walmart.
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