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|Publication number
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|Application number
|Publication date
|20 Apr 1993
|Filing date
|15 Feb 1991
|Priority date
|15 Feb 1991
|Fee status
|Publication number
|John R. Pierson, Thomas J. Dougherty, Ronald C. Klassen
|Original Assignee
|Globe-Union, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (11), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (70), Classifications (7), Legal Events (8)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates, generally, to systems for providing backup power supplies, and more particularly, to long lived rechargeable vehicle battery systems including a main and a reserve battery.
Vehicle battery systems having a main and reserve unit, separated by a one-way diode for maintaining the reserve unit in the charged condition during non-use, are generally known. A switchable dual battery, for example, one disclosed by Pacific-Dunlop of Australia, has a series of thin, flat, parallel electrode plates. A first portion of the plates forms a main battery and a second, adjacent portion parallel to the first portion forms a reserve battery. The two batteries are electrically configured in parallel, with a one-way diode disposed therebetween to prevent the reserve unit from discharging during periods of non-use. A manually operable switch, interposed between the two batteries, in parallel with the diode, bypasses the diode when it is desirable to discharge the reserve unit. A Power Reserve Battery system, bearing the name DELCO POSIPOWER, which has been observed in certain 1985 model automobiles, employs a bypass system located in a remote control box. The bypass can be manually activated to establish communication between a reserve battery and a starting circuit in the event the main battery lacks sufficient power to energize the latching solenoid. Related U.S. application Ser. No. 07/365,084, now U.S. pat. No. 5,002,840, discloses a switched emergency battery system which provides a main battery in selective electrical communication with a reserve battery according to the state of a manually activated switching mechanism. The switching mechanism is disposed within the cover of the battery and includes a manually operable actuator for selectively establishing communication between the main and reserve batteries. A one-way diode, in parallel with the switch, prevents the reserve battery from discharging when the switch is open, but allows current to pass through the diode to maintain the reserve battery in the charged state. When the main battery output is insufficient to start a vehicle, the operator manipulates the switch to the closed position. This brings the reserve battery, which is maintained in the fully charged state by the diode/variable resistor circuit, into parallel communication with the main battery. Upon starting the vehicle, the operator manipulates the switch back to the open position, thereby preventing further drain from the reserve battery. The main battery is recharged in the conventional manner and the reserve battery is recharged at a lower rate through the diode/variable resistor circuit.
Each of the above-described systems employs a manually activated switch. In each case, the operator must first determine that the main battery is insufficient to activate the system, manually engage a switch to connect a reserve battery, and then manually disengage the switch after the vehicle is started to prevent further drain of the reserve battery. Operator confusion resulting when the vehicle fails to start for an unrelated reason could cause the operator to unnecessarily engage the manual switch. In addition to the inconvenience of manually activating a switch to engage the reserve capacity, system reliability may be impaired if the operator neglects to return the switch to its original position after the vehicle is started.
A preferred embodiment of the switched long lived battery system of the present invention provides a main battery, such as a deep cycle battery, in selective electrical communication with the reserve battery, such as a high power battery, through an automatically activated switch. The switch is triggered to provide a secondary battery in parallel with the primary battery. When a comparator determines that the primary battery voltage falls below a predetermined level, subsequent engagement of a vehicle ignition switch automatically activates a triggerable switch that connects the secondary battery in parallel with the primary battery. A timing circuit causes the switch connecting the secondary battery in parallel with the primary battery to be opened at a fixed time after release of the ignition switch.
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the triggerable switch is activated to connect the secondary battery in parallel with the primary battery by the leading edge of a clock signal to a flip flop. The clock signal is generated by a comparator circuit which is biased to a slightly negative voltage using the secondary battery as a power source. Engagement of the vehicle ignition switch causes a non-negative voltage to appear on the comparator causing the output of the comparator to generate a positive going leading edge used to clock the flip flop. Since the non-negative voltage remains while the ignition switch is engaged, a trailing edge appears on the comparator output when the ignition switch is released. The trailing edge is used as an input to a timing circuit which resets the flip flop at a fixed delay after occurrence of the trailing edge. When clocked, the output of the flip flop is governed by the status of another comparator circuit which compares the primary voltage to a predetermined reference. As a result, activation of the triggerable switch placing the secondary battery in parallel with the primary battery requires the predetermined reference to exceed the primary voltage prior to engagement of the vehicle ignition switch. This timing arrangement avoids the possibility that the secondary battery will be brought into the circuit as a result of voltage drop created by a surge load occurring upon engagement of the vehicle ignition switch.
Preferred exemplary embodiments of the present invention will hereinafter be described in conjunction with the appended drawings, wherein like numerals denote like elements, and;
FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram of a latching automatic dual battery switch according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram of the latching automatic dual battery switch, according to the invention;
FIGS. 3A and 3B illustrate a circuit diagram of the latching automatic dual battery switch according to the invention;
FIG. 4 illustrates the use of a solenoid in place of a field effect transistor as a triggerable switch.
FIG. 5 illustrates another embodiment of the invention incorporating several additional features.
FIG. 1 shows primary battery 1 having a positive terminal 2 connected to power supply terminal 5 and negative terminal 3 connected to ground. In normal operation, engagement of ignition switch 6 to the closed position causes the voltage on the primary battery to appear at the ignition sense or system power terminal 7. In response, inductor portion 9 of the starter solenoid causes closing of the switch portion 11 in order to apply power from the primary battery 1 to starter motor 13. The secondary battery 15 has a negative terminal 17 also connected to ground and a positive terminal 19 connected to one of the terminals of triggerable switch 21. Another terminal of triggerable switch 21 is connected to power supply terminal 5. A trigger input 23 activates triggerable switch 21 to engage the secondary battery 15 in parallel with primary battery 1 under specific low primary battery voltage conditions.
Low primary battery voltage conditions can be detected in a number of ways. For example, the primary battery voltage can be monitored and compared with a threshold, so that when the monitored primary battery voltage drops below the threshold, the secondary battery can be engaged. Alternatively, starting current can be monitored, so that when the starting current drawn from the primary battery exceeds a predetermined threshold, the secondary battery is engaged. Another alternative is to monitor the ambient temperature around the battery, so that when the temperature drops below a predetermined threshold, the secondary battery is engaged. Each of these alternatives can be employed separately or a combination of any two or more can be employed together, as desired.
In the preferred embodiment discussed below, low primary voltage conditions are detected by low voltage comparator 25. The output 26 of primary voltage condition comparator 25 is raised to a logical high state when the primary voltage drops below a predetermined reference, for example, six volts. Logic circuitry 27 generates a low voltage detect output on signal line 29 if the ignition switch is closed after the output 26 of voltage comparator 25 is a logical 1. Ignition sense comparator 31 detects the closing of ignition switch 6. This is accomplished through bias circuit 33 which acts to put a negative reference voltage on both terminals of comparator 31. It should be noted that bias circuit 33 is powered from the secondary battery, so that the negative bias on comparator 31 is generated independently of the condition of primary battery 1. Closure of ignition switch 6 causes one of the terminals of comparator 31 to exceed the negative voltage reference on the other terminal, thereby generating a positive going edge on signal line 35 to trigger logic element 27. The positive edge on signal line 25 causes logic element 27 to respond to the state of voltage comparator 25 and generate a low voltage detect signal 29 when the primary battery voltage has previously dropped below the voltage reference on comparator 25.
The output on signal line 29 is passed through turn off delay circuit 37 to gate driver 39. Gate driver 39 generates signal 23 which causes closure of triggerable switch 21 when the primary voltage is below the predetermined reference. Turn off delay circuit 37 causes the gate driver 39 to continue to activate the triggerable switch for a fixed period of time after the ignition switch 6 is released. The turn off delay, for example twenty seconds, is selected to allow maximum recharge of the secondary battery after the engine is started. The purpose of turning off the triggerable switch at the end of the delay period is to eliminate the possibility of the secondary battery discharging into an erroneously connected load, e.g., headlights left on, without relying the operator to disconnect the secondary battery. Gate driver 39 must provide sufficient voltage to drive the triggerable switch. The output level required on signal line 23 to drive the triggerable switch may be a function of the electronic device selected as triggerable switch 21. Bias circuit 33 can be used to provide a compatible signal. In the block diagram of FIG. 1, bias circuit 33 has a voltage invertor 43 and an oscillator 45. The output of oscillator 45 can be routed to the gate driver 39 and used, for example, to drive a voltage multiplier (doubler, tripler, etc.), or similar circuit to generate the necessary voltage levels on signal line 23.
FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram showing the use of field effect transistor 41 to perform the function of triggerable switch 21. The gate terminal 43 of the field effect transistor is driven via a signal line connected from an output of flip flop 46. As was discussed above relative to the gate driver 39 and, as is shown in more detail in FIGS. 3A and 3B, it is preferable to employ buffer 44, such as a voltage multiplier or charge pump circuit between the output of flip-flop 46 and the gate of FET 41 The output of flip flop 46 is controlled by the state of comparator 47 whose output 49 drives an input of flip flop 46. The state of comparator output 49 is determined by the condition of primary battery 51, whose voltage appears on a first terminal of comparator 47, relative to a predetermined reference voltage established on a second terminal of comparator 47 using, for example, zener diode Z1. It should be noted that the predetermined reference is established using secondary battery 53 as a source. This allows the reference voltage to be established independent of the condition of the primary battery.
As previously noted, the secondary battery is used in a bias circuit 33 to establish a slightly negative reference voltage to detect activation of the vehicle ignition switch. As shown in FIG. 2, the voltage invertor 43 and oscillator 45 of FIG. 1 can be configured to form a DC to DC converter 55 which establishes a negative voltage on signal line 58. Comparator 59 has input terminal 61. When ignition switch 56 is not activated (open), input terminal 61 has approximately the same negative voltage as signal line 58, since virtually no current flows through resistor R4. When vehicle ignition switch 56 is closed, a non-negative voltage appears on input terminal 61. This is because the system power terminal 63 becomes connected to the power supply terminal 65, which is routed to primary battery 51. In the event the primary battery 51 is completely discharged, a voltage of at least zero volts appears on comparator input terminal 61. Since input terminal 67 of comparator 59 is at -Vbias, a potential at least slightly less than zero volts, closure of ignition switch 56 causes output 69 of comparator 59 to change state, indicating that the ignition switch has been engaged. Thus, under all primary battery conditions key closure to engage the ignition switch is detected. It should be noted that in future vehicles it would be possible to employ in place of switch 56 a key entity which, upon engagement, always provides a grounded output that can be routed to input 61 of comparator 59. This would also ensure detection by comparator 59 each time the ignition key is closed. It should also be noted that key closure can be detected using any voltage other than the battery voltage. For example, a low positive voltage could be employed.
Output signal 69 of comparator 59 is routed to a clock input 71 of flip flop 46. The clock edge causes the output of flip flop 46 to assume a state indicating the condition of output 49 from primary battery condition comparator 47. For example, in the event that voltage on primary battery 51 has fallen below the predetermined reference voltage set by zener diode Z1, output 49 of comparator 47 will be at a logical 1 state. When the vehicle ignition switch 56 is engaged, output 69 of comparator 59 generates a positive going edge to clock input 71 of flip flop 46. The Q output of flip flop 46, shown herein as a D-flip flop, will then transition to the logical high on the D input. The Q output is routed to gate terminal 43 of field effect transistor. This logical high on the gate terminal 43 causes the source and drain of transistor 41 to be interconnected. Transistor 41 is arranged to have one of the drain and source terminals connected to power supply terminal 65 and the remaining terminal connected to the secondary battery 53. When gate input 43 assumes a logical high state causing transistor 41 to connect its drain and source terminals through a very low resistance, secondary battery 53 is placed in parallel with primary battery 51. This provides sufficient power to start the engine, so that the primary battery can be recharged. Optional circuitry 64 employs FET 2 between the starter solenoid and the ignition switch. FET 2 serves to limit the load on the negative voltage source, which limits the drain on the secondary battery 53 when the ignition switch is open. In addition, FET 2 can be independently controlled by an engine computer, although it would be necessary to switch FET 2 to the on condition each time the engine is started. FET 2 could be replaced by a diode with the cathode connected to the solenoid and the anode connected to the ignition switch to eliminate this requirement.
It should be noted that the signal transitions and logical states described above are by way of illustration and are not intended as further limitations on the invention. It will be known to those of ordinary skill that the switching devices, comparators and flip flops discussed above can be arranged to employ negative going signals and negative edge trigger logic devices, or combinations of positive and negative edge triggered devices as may be convenient. In addition, other types of flip-flops including, but not limited to, R-S & J-K flip flops may be employed as would be known by those of ordinary skill.
In order to prevent secondary battery 53 from being discharged for an inordinately long period of time and to allow for its recharge, output 69 of comparator 59 is also routed to a time delay circuit formed by gate 75, resistor R5 and capacitor Cl. The time delay circuit causes the trigger pulse at gate terminal 43 of field effect transistor 41 to be reversed after a predetermined time frame. As shown in FIG. 2, this can be accomplished using reset terminal 73 of flip flop 46. Through an inversion, AND gate 75 detects the presence of the trailing edge of signal 69, which indicates the release of vehicle ignition switch 56 following its activation. The presence of a trigger signal at gate terminal 43 of field effect transistor 41 is indicated by the Q output of flip flop 46, which is routed to another input of gate 75. At the time both conditions exist, AND gate 75 generates a positive going leading edge. Resistor R5 and capacitor C1 are configured so that capacitor C1 is charged over a time constant. This causes flip flop 46 to be reset when the voltage across the capacitor exceeds the reset level at a fixed time after the AND gate 75 has generated its positive edge. The resetting of flip flop 46 removes the trigger signal from gate terminal 43 and from one of inputs to AND gate 75. As a result the reset condition is removed from flip flop 46 so that flip flop 46 is available to respond again to the conditions described above.
It should be noted that, since flip flop 46 is an edge triggered device, the condition existing on output 49 of comparator 47 prior to engagement of the vehicle ignition switch is the condition reflected in the output of flip flop 46. After the clock input 71 of flip flop 46 is triggered by the output 69 of comparator 59, further changes in the signal level on output 49 of comparator 47 have no effect on the output of flip flop 46 until another clock signal, indicating another engagement of ignition switch 56, is received. Thus, if the primary battery voltage exceeds the predetermined reference and the field effect transistor 41 is not triggered to engage secondary battery 53, a drop in the voltage at power supply terminal 65, which may occur as a result of the surge load introduced by engaging the ignition switch, does not cause the undesirable effect of engaging the secondary battery. If, however, after the first engagement of the vehicle ignition switch, the primary battery voltage does not recover from falling below the predetermined threshold, a subsequent engagement of the ignition switch will cause gate terminal 43 of field effect transistor 41 to be triggered, so that the secondary battery 53 is brought into the circuit.
It should be clear to one of ordinary skill that field effect transistor 41 can be replaced with any known switching device. FIG. 4 illustrates the replacement of field effect transistor 41 with a solenoid. Field effect transistor 41 and the solenoid are shown as illustrations of the invention and are not intended as limitations. Similarly, the RC time constant circuit used in generating the turn off delay is illustrative, as it would be known to those of ordinary skill that any timing circuit whether of an analog or a digital nature, could be employed.
FIGS. 3A and 3B provide a more detailed embodiment of the invention. In this embodiment, oscillator circuit 80 generates a 200 kHz signal which is used to drive the voltage quadrupler or charge pump 82. Field effect transistor 84, which goes to the secondary battery (not shown in FIG. 3), is activated by a gate signal of approximately the primary voltage plus 20 volts. Voltage invertor 86 is used to establish a slightly negative reference voltage at the anode of diode D2 so that the ignition sense signal generated by engagement of the detected. This is accomplished by ignition sense circuitry 90 which incorporates resistors R9-R13, capacitor, C7 and transistor Q8, which are configured as a comparator. Detection is accomplished when a rising voltage biases transistor Q8 into the on condition pulling the voltage on the collector of Q8 down from about the level of the secondary battery toward about a diode drop above zero volts. This creates a signal state transition at both inputs to Schmitt trigger NAND gate 92 and one of the inputs to Schmitt trigger NAND gate 94. As a result, the output of NAND gate 92 develops a positive going leading edge and flip flop 96 is clocked so that its Q output and its inverted output are in accordance with the state of its D input. Voltage comparator 100 provides the signal to the D input of flip flop 96. The D input of flip flop 96 is at a logical 1 when the primary battery voltage is below the predetermined voltage, for example, six volts. In this case, the inverted output of flip flop 96 after being clocked causes transistor Q9 to be turned off, so that a drive voltage appears at the gate of transistor 84 which is used to switch the secondary battery in parallel with the primary battery. The transition of the Q output of flip flop 96 causes Schmitt trigger NAND gate 94 to trigger the 20 second turn off delay circuit 98, so that flip flop 96 is returned to its previous state at the end of 20 seconds.
FIG. 5, which is similar to FIGS. 3A and 3B, illustrates another embodiment incorporating several additional features. Voltage comparator 210 differs from comparator 100 by the addition of R21 & R22 in series with the base of Q2 and Q3, respectively. Oscillator 200 corresponds to oscillator 80 shown in FIG. 3 and drives -V generator or voltage invertor 86 to produce -Vref on signal line 88. Ignition detector 230 differs from ignition sense circuit 90 by the addition of resistor R23.
Logic circuitry 230 employs a pair of cascaded flip-flops 231, 232. When set switch 233 is set in position 2, this arrangement causes triggering of the FET which switches the secondary battery into the ignition circuit only after a second ignition switch closure occurring before expiration of reset timer 230. The intent is to make the driver realize that the back-up system had been engaged because the first ignition switch closure would not start the vehicle, but releasing the key and then attempting a start a second time would engage the back-up. In operation, flip flop 231 responds to the output of input voltage comparator 210, which is connected to the D input of flip-flop 231. The operation of flip-flop 231 is the same as that of flip-flop 96 in FIG. 3A, which was previously discussed. Since the output of comparator 210 is a logical one where the primary battery has fallen below the predetermined threshold, the Q output of flip-flop 231 indicates this condition upon an engagement of the ignition switch. Flip-flop 232, which is clocked simultaneously with flip-flop 231, reads the output state of flip flop 231. Since they are edge triggered devices, flip-flop 231 has not yet detected the low voltage condition on the first closing of the ignition switch and flip-flop 232 does not trigger the output drive control circuitry 240 to engage the secondary battery FET. Instead, on a second engagement of the ignition switch after the primary battery voltage falls below the threshold, the output of flip-flop 232, reflects the state of the output of flip-flop 231 causing output drive control circuits 240 to activate the secondary battery FET switch. It should be noted that while the D input of flip flop 232 can be driven from one of the outputs of flip flop 231, an arrangement using counter 233 may also be employed.
If optional set switch 233 is in position 1, both flip flops 231 and 232 are triggered. Flip flop 232 triggers the output drive control circuits 240 to generate a gate output to the secondary battery FET in the same way as flip flop 96 in FIG. 3A. Optional set switch 233 can be a manual switch which is either factory set or accessible to the driver of the vehicle. In addition, switch 233 can be a programmed switch implemented by electronic or other means.
Reset timer 250 operates in the same manner as the turn-off delay circuits 98 shown in FIG. 3A. The pair of flip flops 231, 232 can be reset together as shown in FIG. 5. If the primary battery is low and the ignition switch is closed within the reset time out period, e.g., 20 seconds, the second engagement of the ignition switch triggers flip flop 232 based on the output of flip flop 231, as previously described, to activate the secondary battery FET. If the time out period expires before the second ignition switch closure, the initial conditions are restored and two additional ignition switch closures are required to engage the secondary battery. An additional timer could be employed to limit the time between two sequential ignition closures. Two reset timers could be employed, the second timer being triggered by the output of the flip flop 232. In this case, the second reset timer resets flip flop 232 to control how long the output drive control circuits command the FET to engage the secondary battery.
Output drive circuitry 240 is similar to the gate out circuitry in FIGS. 3A and 3B with the addition of diode D8. In addition, a manual override capability is included. When manual switch S10 is engaged, the gate of Q9 is grounded and the gate out signal continuously causes the FET to switch in the secondary battery. The manual switch can be located at the battery, at a location remote from the battery, e.g., the dashboard, or several such switches can be connected in parallel at convenient locations.
Dash light driver 260 employs transistor Q12 to complete a current path to ground when flip flop 232 causes the gate-out signal from output drive control circuitry 240 to switch the secondary battery in the circuit.
The incorporation of the above described automatic switching of a secondary or backup battery allows batteries to be customized in ways not possible with manual switching arrangements. When a manual switch is used, the backup or secondary battery must be designed to accommodate the design compromises between starting and continuous operation required of other batteries. This is because the backup battery remains switched into the circuit for long periods of time. Thus, to drive both electrical features such as lights and ignition circuits a heavy duty deep cycling battery is required.
In contrast, with automatic engagement of the backup, the backup battery can be optimized for high starting power with little cycling. Indeed, the backup battery could be a highly charged capacitor, while the primary battery could be constructed with thick plates for cycling. Thus, overall battery performance and life cycle are improved by using the automatic switching mechanism.
While specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, it will be clear that variations in the details of the embodiments specifically illustrated and described may be made without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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Turkey and cranberry sauce is delicious any time of year. To help keep this recipe fast, sear the tenderloins and get them in the oven first, then prep the shallots, thyme and cranberries and make your sauce. If you like sweeter cranberry sauce, you may want to add another tablespoon of brown sugar. Serve with: Mashed sweet potatoes, sautéed Brussels sprouts and a glass of Riesling.
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- 2 turkey tenderloins (about 1 1/2 pounds total)
- 3/4 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 4 teaspoons canola oil, divided
- 4 shallots, peeled and quartered
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried
- 3/4 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen (not thawed) cranberries
- 1/4 cup dried cranberries
- 2 tablespoons light brown sugar, or to taste
- 1 tablespoon fruit-flavored vinegar, such as raspberry or pomegranate
- Preheat to 450°F.
- Sprinkle turkey tenderloins with 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper. Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the turkey and cook, turning to brown all sides, about 5 minutes total. Transfer to a baking sheet. Roast until an instant-read thermometer registers 165°, 15 to 25 minutes (depending on the sizes).
- Meanwhile, add the remaining 2 teaspoons oil to the pan. Add shallots and cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, 3 minutes. Add thyme and cook until fragrant, about 10 seconds. Add broth and cook, scraping up any browned bits, for 1 minute. Stir in fresh and dried cranberries and cook until most of the fresh cranberries have broken down, 6 to 7 minutes. Stir brown sugar, vinegar and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt into the sauce; cook for 1 minute. Cover and remove from the heat.
- Let the turkey rest on a clean cutting board for 5 minutes. Thinly slice; serve with the sauce.
202 calories; 5 g fat (0 g sat, 2 g mono); 45 mg cholesterol; 14 g carbohydrates; 29 g protein; 1 g fiber; 428 mg sodium; 93 mg potassium.
Carbohydrate Servings: 1
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Slideshow: Behind the Scenes: Making Olmeca Altos Tequila in Jalisco, Mexico
Baby Agave
Agave for tequila grows for seven to eight years before it can be harvested. Not until then are the starches in the agave concentrated and developed enough to be converted to the rich, flavorful sugars that make a good tequila. The plants in this field are one year old.
Just Harvested
This agave field was recently harvested. Some farmers let fields go fallow for a year before replanting. After harvesting, any leaves, stalks, and roots remaining in Olmeca's field are shredded and tilled into the soil, and the field is planted with corn or another crop for two years, only returning to agave production in the third year.
The fields are not irrigated; when I asked about this, Jesús Hernandez told me that some farmers have tried irrigation, but the plants get green without developing the complex starches that are necessary. He said in most years, natural rainfall is sufficient. The distillery grows about 60% of its agave, and buys the other 40%.
The industry is growing faster than planting, so although at present, there's still an oversupply of agave, most producers fear another agave shortage like the one that hit the industry in 2000. Some producers, therefore, are harvesting early, after six years rather than seven. "They're robbing from future years," Hernandez warns. The starch concentration in the hearts isn't as high as it should be, he says, so producers need more agave to make their tequila, and this extends the shortage even more.
A Pile of Piñas
The piña is the harvested heart of the agave. Once they're gathered from the field, they're trucked here, to the reception area of the distillery. Workers use a tool similar to a long-handled hoe to pick them up from the floor and deposit them onto conveyers.
Headed In
Many distilleries today use autoclaves, or pressure cookers, to steam-blast the agaves. Although this process is more efficient than using an oven, it tends to scorch the sugars, making for smoky and bitter flavors. Some of the largest distilleries now use diffusers, instead of either ovens or autoclaves, to extract the juices from the agave hearts without cooking them. This is the most efficient and cost-effective process for extracting sugars from the agaves, but many believe it sacrifices the flavors you'd get by cooking the agave fibers.
The yeast at Olmeca is descended from a wild yeast originally found in the agave itself. Some distilleries use wild yeasts for the fermentation process, but Hernandez finds that these processes are too unpredictable.
Roasted Agaves Exit the Oven
The temperature at this spot inside the distillery is only mildly warm, despite being so close to the ovens. The distillery smells a little like roasted figs, dates, or sweet potatoes. Though I didn't get a photo of it, the distillery offered us a small piece of roasted agave. The flavor is pleasant and mildly sweet.
From here, the hearts go either to the tahona mill or to the roller mill. Want to see 'em?
The Tahona Mill
The tahona is a huge two-ton stone made of volcanic rock. A spare stone sits outside on the distillery grounds as decoration, but the distillers can use it if the main stone becomes cracked. (It takes four months to make a new stone, so not having a spare would be very costly for the distillery.)
Though formerly mules and horses pulled tahonas, a machine now does the work of pulling the stone around and around. A man stands inside the milling floor, raking the agave fibers into place in the path of the millstone.
Agave Mosto
Mosto entering a fermentation tank. Mosto is a "soup" of agave juices mixed with the yeast-syrup mixture I mentioned earlier.
Peering in the Fermentation Tank
Fermenting mosto. We climbed up a set of steel stairs to get to the top of the fermentation tanks. The temperature was very hot, and the air up there definitely smelled of a low-alcohol fermented beverage, somewhat like hot cider or warm beer.
Drains in the floor of the tank pull the fermented mosto out, by gravity, to a pump, which sends the mosto up a tall pipe and into one of several copper-pot stills.
Copper Stills
We we weren't allowed to take photos from much closer than this vantage point, for fear of sparking a fire and explosion. (All that alcohol vapor in the air...)
Mosto from the tahona is loaded into a still along with the fibers, which add flavor in distillation. Mosto from the roller mill is pumped into the stills without any fiber. The final distillates are blended together before aging, in proportions that Hernandez keeps close to the vest.
Bottling the Tequila
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Jaipur's got culture, elegance, and fine January weather. Why not start a book festival?
The British satirical magazine Private Eye recently ran a cartoon showing two survivors of a shipwreck watching their liner sink from a desert island, shaded by a single, drooping palm tree. One says to the other: "Well, I suppose the first thing to do is to start a literary festival." The cartoonist had a point: literary festivals now seem almost as globally contagious as SARS.
But it certainly didn't seem that way in 2004, when I moved my family back to India from London. Shortly after the move I was invited to do a reading at an annual music festival in Jaipur, in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, four hours' drive from our new home in Delhi. That reading took place somewhere at the rear of Jaipur University in a room that no one was able to find. Only about 14 people turned up, most of whom appeared to be Japanese tourists who had lost their way.
That evening, I suggested to the event's organizer that maybe something could be done to start a small book festival around the existing music festival. It seemed odd to me that India, which sent so many writers to festivals around the world, seemed to have so few literary events of its own. Wherever I appeared at book festivals around the globe, all the usual celebrated Indian writers were there. But one tended to meet way more A-list Indian writers in English at the literary festival of Hay-on-Wye, in the Welsh countryside, or even Sydney, than one ever did in Mumbai or Delhi.
Jaipur, the capital of the desert state of Rajasthan, is one of the world's most beautiful cities, with rich literary and cultural traditions of its own, as well as the most wonderfully benign late-January climate. My heart always lifts as I leave fog-bound Delhi and head onto the Jaipur highway. Within a couple of hours you break through the pollution and find yourself in sunlit mustard fields. A couple of hours more and you are amid camel carts and brightly colored Rajasthani turbans. By the end of the journey you are driving past the bastions and terraces of Amber Fort, the lake palace of Jai Mahal, the pink city walls and the lines of courtyard houses or havelis. It seemed the perfect venue for a festival.
Two years later, the literature festival finally opened. We thought we had 18 authors--all Indian residents, though "two failed to show up," as my codirector, Namita Gokhale, remembers. Since that unpromising start, Jaipur has transformed itself from an event into a phenomenon, growing like some monstrous creature from Indian myth. Last year, our fifth festival, 210 authors from 15 countries spoke to crowds of more than 35,000 people. In a few short years we've suddenly found ourselves running the largest literary festival in the entire Asia-Pacific region, and the biggest free festival of literature in the world. This year we expect well over 50,000 people, to hear 250 authors pitching up from around 30 different countries.
For all the festival's international reach, one of our missions is to highlight those Indian authors who write in India's 22 non-English national languages, 122 regional languages, and 1,726 mother tongues--writers whose names are still totally unknown outside their homeland. A few years ago Salman Rushdie wrote, "The ironic proposition that India's best writing since independence may have been done in the language of the departed imperialists is simply too much for some folks to bear." This caused a furor in a country where many write in Hindi, Malayalam, and Bengali, and whose Indian-language publishing industry is far larger than its English one. …


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James Wood is smarter than I am; chances are he is smarter than you. Take, for example, the opening sentences of his new collection of essays on novels and how they make us laugh. "Comedy," Wood writes, "like death and sex, is often awarded the prize of ineffability. It is regularly maintained that comedy cannot really be described or explained." He thus cleverly sidesteps the naysayer who would smirk at the irony of a book about comedy being so serious, and being about such serious novels. That would be simple-minded, Wood seems to say, and anyway he has already had that thought.
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The Irresponsible Self does feel, at times, too much like pieces thrown together. (Most of the chapters were previously published in The New Republic or The London Review of Books; it includes, for instance the much-discussed essay on "Hysterical Realism," where Wood looks down his nose at nearly all of contemporary literature.) But even in small doses, Wood employs a remarkable understanding of how fiction works, and how it works on us the readers. The depth of his reading and the acuity of his observations make this a tough, enlightening book. (Which is not to say that Wood himself is never amusing; he has his Dale Peck moments. He writes, for instance, of Tom Wolfe's books and their "immense twisted colons of plot.") In this, his second book of criticism, Wood approaches literature with such absolute passion that in the end you forgive him anything.
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