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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pianotuna wrote:
map40,
South Africa has been having problems for about ten years.
We need to wake up and be proactive.
The area of the city I live in has old tired infrastructure. There have been at least 6 outages in the last 12 months. So far they are merely annoying. But I am considering getting a battery and using my back up psw inverter.
Well, all 3rd world countries have always had problems. Southafrica has been deteriorating for a long time, the last big hit in which the roll out black outs became "forever" was just a few years ago.
I agree with you that we need to be ahead of the problems. We will eventually push our grid to the limit and at that point there will years of work to recover.
South America is the perfect example. Argentina and Brasil had great infrastructure, incredible hydroelectric and nuclear power. They were economically strong and were even highly developed in several fields (Cardiovascular Medicine in the hands of Rene Favaloro, Manufacturing engine components for Ferrari, BMW, WV, Porsche and Mercedes; Aerospace industry with Embraer).
They stoped investing in infrastructure and now they don't have the power they need and is destroying their base industry.
From where we are to where they are is 20 years, from there to where Southafrica is another 20 more.
