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Jaimec
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2019 - 06:38 pm: | 
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They've shortened races before due to crashes. Why not remove one lap to give them all a warm up lap? No idea... Actually, I don't remember this from the weekends where they only had one race. Maybe it has to do with the two races in one weekend? Your guess is as good as mine. Must take a LOT of electricity to get all of those bikes fully charged for each session. |
Pwnzor
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 07:19 am: |
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I wonder how much fossil fuels are required to actually charge all those batteries? |
Jaimec
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 07:36 am: |
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Actually, none. The whole point of the series was to be as ecologically sustaniable as possible.
https://www.visordown.com/news/racing/motogp/motoe -riders-specification-race-schedule-confirmed
Which is why I said I believe they're limited to how much they can charge all of the bikes for two races a weekend. |
Fresnobuell
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 03:55 pm: |
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I though I read somewhere that they used solar to charge the bikes? I can't imagine them hauling and deploying the solar panels around, however. The energy those bikes must consume would not be conducive to solar I would think.
Also, the allure of e-powered vehicles is not really the cost/production of electricity vs. fossil fuels...it's the efficiency of the motors. Don't quote me on exact numbers but electric motors are roughly twice as efficient as gas powered motors. I want to say in general electric motors are somewhere around 80% efficient. I have no idea how efficient the Moto-E motors are..probably safe to assume less efficient as the power demands go up. |
Jaimec
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 05:29 pm: |
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Fresnobuell, if you read the article I linked above you'll see you're right: Solar. I'm sure there's a backup system if it's a cloudy race, but I believe they set up in advance of the weekend and there are storage cells to store electricity leading up to the weekend. In fact, it was one of those storage cells that shorted out and caused the fire that delayed the season.
Even so, there's a finite amount of energy available over the course of the week and when you have to charge that many bikes that many times, I can understand why they might cut corners on those "two race weekends." On the other hand, we wouldn't've had two-race weekends if not for the fire at the beginning of the season.
But to Pwnzor's point, they STILL burn fossil fuels transporting the bikes from one round to the next. That part hasn't changed. |
Fresnobuell
| | Posted on Friday, September 20, 2019 - 11:42 am: |
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They claim it's clean energy, but those batteries have some very toxic materials. I have always found it ironic that Prius owners are so righteous about being green when their car has hundreds of pounds of toxic batteries. |
Jaimec
| | Posted on Friday, September 20, 2019 - 03:58 pm: |
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Motor vehicle batteries have ALWAYS been toxic, though. I mean, car batteries are made from LEAD after all.
But this is a motorcycle forum, NOT a horse racing forum, so we take what we can. |
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