You have 13 yrs 11 mths left to buy a GM gas or dsl vehicle

MikeRP wrote:
One last thing, there a lot of smart folks out there working on our electric generation, transmission and distribution systems. Some of these jobs are very dangerous. And unfortunately many folks do lose their life every year in this industry. But our grid is extremely reliable and is undergoing huge upgrades now. Most people don’t understand when they flip on that switch to watch TV or play on their favorite game system, there are many people there 24 hours a day providing that power on demand.

They certainly deserve our respect. Check out the fallen linemen organization on facebook.

That’s a fact.

One last thing, there a lot of smart folks out there working on our electric generation, transmission and distribution systems. Some of these jobs are very dangerous. And unfortunately many folks do lose their life every year in this industry. But our grid is extremely reliable and is undergoing huge upgrades now. Most people don’t understand when they flip on that switch to watch TV or play on their favorite game system, there are many people there 24 hours a day providing that power on demand.

They certainly deserve our respect. Check out the fallen linemen organization on facebook.

So everyone,

We will need a major breakthrough in battery technology to achieve nirvana. Look at the mining required now to acquire enough rare earth metals to power the batteries we have now. The damage to the environment from this mining is frankly just ridiculous. Look it up. I’m not sure we even have a net positive environmental benefit from batteries right now.

Now they are working on new technologies for batteries and there are rumors of technologies that will provide that breakthrough without the destruction of the environment we see now. We can’t power the US with the technology we have now for batteries. No way.

Solar is good for peaking energy. Wind really is not good on the electric grid. The total cost for wind never shows the large generators that are on line to deal with the variations in power output and East of the Mississippi a large part of the energy comes off peak. Dealing w repair of these units is also an expensive treat. I’m not a fan at all of wind for electric generation.

T Boone Pickens had the right idea, take windmills out in the windiest places and make hydrogen. Develop new pipelines to use for transportation uses and you can mix a small percentage of hydrogen with natural gas, I think 5%. So the windmills are inefficient and the black box to make hydrogen is inefficient, but who cares? The wind is free.

A lot of smaller gas turbines can run on hydrogen, w modifications now, and I’m pretty sure the big boys, Siemens and GE, are working on using hydrogen in their largest most efficient gas fired generation units.

Now this would keep our Cummins a cookin and the Middle East can drown in their oil.

So what I’m saying is using wind to make hydrogen makes sense, using it for electric generation just doesn’t work well.

Hydroelectric power could be used to make hydrogen also. Point is use green power to make green power that is more usable at this time.

Like I said batteries need a major breakthrough in storage capacity and manufacturing that doesn’t destroy our environment. I think it will happen. And we could use hydrogen and battery storage as the basis for transportation and then use new small nuclear plants presently used in our warships for localized mid to large needs for electric generation. We can also use natural gas and hydrogen as needed for generation.

Peace

Did any of y’all read the article? It clearly states light duty vehicles. Like a Chevy Colorado Prius.

Reisender wrote:
Did you mean 2000 mile round trip? A 200 mile round trip can be fine by pretty much every EV on the North American market with no charging. Typo?

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Oops, yes, 2000 mile.

time2roll wrote:
No more rolling coal? So not going to miss that.

Well yeah, but think how cool it will be when people rig their EV's to shoot out lightning bolts!

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goducks10 wrote:

Lantley wrote:
EV's will dominate simply because they are way more efficient with very few moving parts vs. the ICE.
Sure they will break down, and have issues but they are nothing like the ICE.
Drive a Tesla you will be amazingly awaken.
This whole EV thing is not something futuristic its happening now.
My Wal Mart now has charging stations. My library has charging stations.
Getting recharged will be something you do while shopping. If your taking a longer trip you will stop at a coffee shop he offers recharging.
While there is certainly infrastructure to be sorted out it's a mindset change at this point vs. a technology challenge

x2. I also think it's a testosterone mindset for some. Electric cars just aren't manly enough.

Cybertruck is beefier than a GM or a Ford.

And that's why Elon is putting on option for a broom-broom when you accelerate if that's not good enough.:B

fj12ryder wrote:

Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
European countries are into no-tailpipe goals some with more aggressive timelines than the others.

Seems everyone sees the future except the troglodytes among us.

Yeah, but there's a whooooooole bunch of 'em. LOL

Darwin is not fast enough, lol.:B

No more rolling coal? So not going to miss that.