pnichols wrote:
David,
Fossil fuels store a huge amount of energy per unit of volume and stations can replenish it fast. Vehicle owners can even carry their own refueling supplies via "gas cans".
I don't know what the long term "personal transportation for general use" power solution is at this point. It isn't batteries powering electric motors and it isn't CO2 coming from burning fossil fuels.
Maybe it's fuel cells fed from fossil sources or ultra-compact nuclear fusion reactors??
All that being said ... scientists do tell us that mankind is currently harvesting only a small fraction of the sun's energy that is bathing the Earth.
We've got to figure out how to bottle that energy compactly so we can carry a bunch of it around powering our personal self-driving modules.
How to bottle electric energy..
Its called bateries ;)
Where will this energy come from,,how about sun
https://electrek.co/2017/10/02/egeb-solar-up-40-in-2017-cat5solar-not-all-roses-automated-solar-panel-factories-more/Btw did you know that Internal combustion engine is about 25% - 35% efficient while Electric one is 99%..
Can you do the math on how much % of every gallon fuel is wasted in your vehicle and how dirty it makes air around us..
https://electrek.co/2017/09/29/tesla-global-fleet-carbon-emission-saved-map/
