I want one!

I’m trying to use an EZ-Bake oven but these **** newfangled LED lightbulbs suck...

Musk detractors disappointed again

I find discussion of the technological or financial advantages or lack thereof stimulating. Politics, not so much. There's a whole world outside the orbit of Sacramento, and it's investing in renewables and low / zero emissions in a big way.

Happy thanksgiving, everyone! Will you cook your meal in an electric oven, or use IC? :B

I'm using a wood burning smoker. But it's a hybrid, with digital controls.

"My Sony Betamax still works?"

One of those times that proves popular opinion can be wrong. The Betamax was a superior format compared to VHS, but marketing killed it.

fj12ryder wrote:
The fact of the matter is that naysayers are sometimes correct. I still haven't seen the personal helicopters, and jet packs that were supposed to be ubiquitous by the late 20th century, although the self-driving autos are making an appearance, albeit a few decades late. No colonies on the moon, or broadcast power, as was forecast. The huge space stations and tours to the moon are more than a few decades from reality.

Dirigibles and blimps, which were the airships of the future, have come and gone. Sometimes healthy skepticism keeps the Charles Ponzi's of the world having to work for a living.

My Sony Betamax still works?

time2roll wrote:
MEX, solar will soon be coming to Mexico at 1.77 cents per kWh.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/mexico-auction-bids-lowest-solar-wind-price-on-the-planet

When I visit a Wells Fargo branch north of the border I read the commodities page and see beef for cents per pound, corn for a few dollars per ton, and so on...

Trouble is that price exists in another dimension. Comision Federal de Electricidad rates keep creeping up. My last utility bill specified my 128 kWh for 2-months cost the utility (seventy three dollars) to manufacture.

Burn 500 kWh in 60 days you will be billed around (two hundred fifty dollars). Quick, now go run and see how much you used.

Electric cars will be in vogue down here the day after you gaze into the heavens and see the orbiting Mexican space station.

Electric car accommodations will "probably" take place in Mexico City and Monterrey. Outside those cities forget it. With electric cars will not have HOY NO CIRCULA driving days restrictions.

But sadly, crooks will look for expensive electric cars not to steal them but invite an involuntary occupant to spend time with them in the unique Mexican transmogrification of GO FUND ME.

Electric vehicles are coming. As a wrench turner back in the 70's I always thought I would be telling my Grandkids about ICE in their time. Looks like we'll need at least another generation.

Storage is important as is the power to get all those EV chargers zinging. The battery situation continues to improve and making the battery exchangeable might be a decent way to get range taken care of. As to utilities, I think we need to decentralize the grid and learn new manners of generation.

IMO, if the EV Tesla platform wasn't viable, I don't think we'd see Walmart and JB Hunt ordering trucks.

The electric motor technology is great. Battery technology is woefully inadequate. That’s the problem.
Especially electric airplanes, where power to weight ratio is paramount!

fj12ryder wrote:
The fact of the matter is that naysayers are sometimes correct. I still haven't seen the personal helicopters,

Oh, but there are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Helicycle

I have a friend that has one and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham has one.

LS

MEX, solar will soon be coming to Mexico at 1.77 cents per kWh.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/mexico-auction-bids-lowest-solar-wind-price-on-the-planet

The fact of the matter is that naysayers are sometimes correct. I still haven't seen the personal helicopters, and jet packs that were supposed to be ubiquitous by the late 20th century, although the self-driving autos are making an appearance, albeit a few decades late. No colonies on the moon, or broadcast power, as was forecast. The huge space stations and tours to the moon are more than a few decades from reality.

Dirigibles and blimps, which were the airships of the future, have come and gone. Sometimes healthy skepticism keeps the Charles Ponzi's of the world having to work for a living.