EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks
So much wheel spinning on EVs, what if they are not the right path forward? The biggest problem with renewable power and EVs is storage, the second is storage, and the third is storage. Another pat...
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Huntindog wrote:
Too many things do not make any sense.
At a time when we are all being pushed into EVs, and electricity supply is constrained.... We have companies with warehouses full of computers running 24/7 To "mine" fake money. The electricity wasted doing this could have far better and more productive uses.. Then this fake money is sold to a greater fool for real money in the hopes that an even greater fool will come along and pay even more for it. So long as we as a society fall into this madness, I do not see how we can possibly affect the climate in a positive way.
I have a long list of things that do not make any sense, but this is enough for now
You are right about the madness. As a Tesla owner I believe that electric cars have a definite place on our roads and that that place will expand as everything related to electric cars improves. My concern is that most of the people pushing electric cars don't seem to have a clue on where to get the electricity. Sure, solar and wind will help but I don't believe that it is going to get us more than about half way there.
As an engineer the obvious answer to me is that we need more nuclear power at a more affordable price. In the near term that is probably small modular reactors of the sort that Bill Gates has been promoting. With enough carbon free electric power we might even be able to start pulling CO2 back out of the air or make synthetic fuels with carbon pulled from the air. The response that I generally get from environmentalists is that nuclear power is too dangerous. And yet the can't show any damage done by nuclear power that is nearly as catastrophic or impending as much as the damage that they predict from too much CO2 in the air. There is an old saying about not getting the carriage in front of the horse but as far as I can tell most environmentalists don't even know why the horse is needed.
Basically, many of the environmentalists are just as much or more in denial than most of the climate change deniers. If the "environmentalists" had not been in such determined opposition to nuclear power in the last 40 or 50 years we would have had a lot less fossil fuel consumption and the environment would be in a lot better shape than it currently is.
