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free radical wrote:
Chris Bryant wrote:
BarabooBob wrote:
I am in the middle of nowhere too often to rely on electric vehicles at this point. Maybe when there are multiple charging stations in every town that can charge my batteries in 10 minutes I will be interested. I don't think I will live that long.
The Nikola semi has a 1500 mile range, with fast refueling. While it is electric, it isn’t battery, rather it’s a hydrogen fuel cell.
Litle problem with Nikola semi
It doesnt exist.
And hydrogen fool cells are not financialy feasible,or advantageous over pure EV
The availability of electricity is widespread. Hydrogen is a cool concept but it still relies on a provider just like oil refineries. You can’t build gas or diesel at home. Electricity on the other hand. If at some point power companies get stupid and raise rates too much people will just make their own power. Solar is getting cheaper. So is storage. It’s kind of a self solving problem.MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
The ENTIRE area of this video is powered by a coal fired mega plant outside of VALMY NEVADA. Several Gigawatts.
No nuclear
No falling water
No solar
No natural gas
And no grand intertie except to sell not buy power which would rob LA of a small but significant amount of kWh.
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The forecast found Lake Mead water levels will end this month at 1,079 feet – a mere four feet away from the 1,075-feet threshold that would trigger a federal shortage declaration and mandatory cuts. The report predicted Lake Mead will dip just below the threshold to 1,075 feet.
There goes a full 30% of the power for the ENTIRE 50% California in the south. And guess what? The Pacific Intertie can not increase and make up the difference. A proposed rate hike and cancellation of electrical rate exclusions in California for electric cars is already on the agenda in the California State PUC.
Delusion
Einstein said it best. Insanity can be described as insisting something be tried and retried, while expecting different results.
Some folks are in for a rude shock when reality hits the fan. Hundred dollar a month electrical bills soaring to seven hundred dollars and the cost per mile of fuel six hundred percent of what it is today.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of solar panels in places like the Mojave desert while the Chinese jump for joy and increase military spending ten thousand percent.
While the Russians tow gigantic nuclear plants to the arctic and Brazil runs ape**** with the worst pollution electrical generation while clearcutting the Amazon rain forest.
All I can say is down here we are on the outside of the fence watching the NIMBY's on the other side chant and newspapers headline events on San Francisco's HIPPIE HILL. Good night Chet -- Good night David.
Why should Chinese military spending bother you,
Did China ever attacked another country?
No solar in that area..makes you wonder why not since its sunny pretty much all the time.
Put up solar panels and battery storage and you can drive on free energy even in the outback.Bobbo wrote:
Reisender wrote:
People generally assess their needs when buying a vehicle. Patterns, locations etc. The average person travelling to remote locations without infrastructure would be informed enough not to buy an EV. Right tool for the right job.
I have assessed my needs, and an ICE vehicle is the only one that works for me. Now, a hybrid would work fine for DW, and we may consider that when the time comes, but an EV won't work for either of us.
I just get tired of the EV Social Warriors who won't accept that my needs exclude their pets.
On a semi-regular basis, I need to drive about 1,500 miles in a 3 day period. My ICE has no problem with that. I have actually had EV Social Warriors tell me that it is not necessary to drive that far that fast, and I need to take 6 days to drive it, which an EV will do. They have no idea just why that 3 day period is required, and don't care. It doesn't fit their world view.
Totally in agreement with you on this. People should be able to drive whatever they want as long as it is within the law. Lots of people here drive pickups. They never tow anything or carry anything but they like driving them. Who cares. Their business.
Although lots of EV drivers drive 500 miles per day. However, if there are no Superchargers on those routes an EV would be a bad choice.- Read your history. Tibetans have a different origin, history, language, religion, and social structure.
China and India fought a war.
When Americans approached the YALU river within 30 miles China attacked.S South Korea did not attack the north.
The Chinese are claiming all the water around the Philippines. Much like it would be if we claimed all the water around Crimea. Or Hong Kong Harbor.
If China had no issue they would not be spending trillions of dollars on OFFENSIVE weaponry.
This is about feeding the mouth that will bite you not politics.
Stupid to pay an enemy's gym and sharpshooting school.
WE should be or the Mexican people should be manufacturing solar panels not China. Not Russia not Al Qaeda. Our biggest enemy is our government. The four horsewomen of the Apocalypse. free radical wrote:
No solar in that area..makes you wonder why not since its sunny pretty much all the time.
Put up solar panels and battery storage and you can drive on free energy even in the outback.
Free energy? Now that's a concept everyone should be on the bandwagon for. Like free money, free food, free cell phones, free housing.free radical wrote:
You mean they're giving away those solar panels and batteries now. Where do I get them? Sign me up.
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Put up solar panels and battery storage and you can drive on free energy even in the outback.Lynnmor wrote:
joebedford wrote:
I'll buy an EV when the range is improved (we live in the country). I hate the pollution I'm producing with my gas car and diesel truck (soon to disappear). Where I live, the electricity to charge the EV does NOT come from burning fossil fuels.
Please tell us where your electricity comes from. I am on the northeast power grid and understand that there is every type of generation supplying it, none of which is completely without negative impact.
I apologize. I checked and our provider has one natural gas and one biomass generating station. Though that is a small percentage of the overall generating capability they still pollute and hopefully soon they'll get rid of them.joebedford wrote:
I apologize. I checked and our provider has one natural gas and one biomass generating station. Though that is a small percentage of the overall generating capability they still pollute and hopefully soon they'll get rid of them.
You still didn't say where the majority of your power comes from. In PA, I can choose a supplier, some of them "green", but that is just a shell game because the same amount of electricity will be generated from the same facilities.Lynnmor wrote:
It comes from OPG and Hydro Quebec. In times of overload, they'll tap the grid and buy from dirty suppliers. In surplus times, they sell electricity below cost to try to get coal burners shut down.joebedford wrote:
I apologize. I checked and our provider has one natural gas and one biomass generating station. Though that is a small percentage of the overall generating capability they still pollute and hopefully soon they'll get rid of them.
You still didn't say where the majority of your power comes from. In PA, I can choose a supplier, some of them "green", but that is just a shell game because the same amount of electricity will be generated from the same facilities.- "FREE S***!"
Is the screech heard around 10:00 AM when the red-headed-stepchild bird awakens.
While nesting the nest can lose an egg at a time and the bird will not panic until there are none left.
The methodology of "We can't be broke, we still have checks left!" makes the RHSC a candidate for starvation, therefore extinction.
You can see them perched on phone wires all pointing at each other.
Millions of tons of steel and aluminum conductor needed to support the phone wires will all be, of course, free! As will the right of way, construction and legal.
We are blessed!
