EV alternative for light/medium duty trucks

pianotuna wrote:
Grover I'm all for nuclear power, if you can tell me how and where to safely store the waste. Until that happens I'm anti nuclear.

I believe that there are plenty of good options for storage. It is just that for every solution there are some people in opposition to it. Just yesterday I saw an article claiming that offshore windmills are killing whales and need to be banned. Windmills and solar panels both create large quantities of hazardous waste. Some of it is possibly as dangerous as anything that could comes out of a nuclear plant. Environmentalists are tearing down hydro plants and blocking new ones. Sometimes this is taken to far extremes. A dam near me was blocked 30 years ago by an environmentalist just looking for an excuse to block the dam. He found a previously unknown type of minnow in the river and the dam was blocked to save the minnow. Later it was discovered that the minnows are plentiful elsewhere but had not been noticed before.

So, if we block coal, nuclear, hydro, windmills, solar panels, and all types of petroleum products, how do you propose that we get around? Before you say horses keep in mind that they not only leave waste products in the road they also pollute the air and will even die in the road to be hauled away. You should read some articles about how nasty cities were before horses were replaced by the Model T.

Every power source has drawbacks. We either have to kill of 99% of the humans and go back to the stone age or we have to find a manageable course forward. Personally, I believe that nuclear fission has proven to be the safest and cleanest source we have that is both expandable and affordable. It is looking more and more likely that fusion will be a viable power source in the not too distant future but we are not there yet. There is also some significant progress being made with solar panels and they could well be the best option in many places. We need to keep an open mind to all options.