2nd of October 2021, Saturday

Hello Gophers!

Finally a Saturday where I do not have to do so many things. The last few weeks
were too busy, and I do not like it like that. I always need my weekend to get
"back on earth" after a busy work week. The weather is nice for early October as
well. 

I'm not doing much at the moment, and it's great. Only active thing running at
the moment is a backup of my entire NAS contents to an external USB disk for
off-site storage. I use my NAS as a backup (and only for that! If you use it for
other things, then a NAS is NOT suitable as a backup) but I like to have an off-
site backup for when a disaster would strike and my NAS would get destroyed. I
have thousands of photographs of my kids and holidays that I would not want to
lose. Also some code and documents that I would hate to lose.

On a wholly different note, I just read a nice thing about a firm in Austria,
who have taken a Tesla Model 3 and have changed it to a serial hybrid. Serial
hybrid means that the electric motor stays as the only power source to the
wheels, but the battery size is taken down to about one-fourth of what it was
before. This obviously makes the range on battery go down significantly (about
100kms) but they add a petrol generator that kicks in when the battery is 
about to be depleted (or the speed is on the high side) and gives electric
power to the car. 

Check it out here: https://www.obrist.at (I have no associations with them,
I'm just interested)

I love the concept, and it extends the range massively, but I still think these
guys have not gone far enough. The thing still runs on petrol and is therefore
not what we all need in the end. In my humble opinion the generator would need
to be of the 'diesel' kind, and not the 'petrol' kind, and it should be made
to be able to run on any oil, like used cooking oil, sunflower oil, canola oil
and so on. This would mean that we can use all our oil producing plants and the
like to make this car go. This would solve the range anxiety issue, the Li-Ion
battery shortage in the future  and a lot of the endless stream of petrol
issues.  

I'm not sure if I missed something here, so if you have something to say about
this, just drop me a line...

Anyway, have a nice weekend!

Cheers,

Fripster

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