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โJul-03-2017 11:51 AM
tomman58 wrote:
Tesla model 3 is coming on line shortly and claims 20,000 a year in a year. But that isn't the news that affects us other than over 373,000 or already ordered and the more that are sold the less oil and that means yet cheaper cost for us. The news I thought that was interesting was the announcement of a new semi-truck that they are going to show off in September............. Does that mean other trucks soon? Electric ones that can pull campers?????? We will have to wait and see. Imagine if we embraced solar now as the Chinese are, how long would it take to have electricity for all these cars. What a concept that would be. Oh well will be a few years before we could reenter that main stream.
โJul-03-2017 11:29 AM
LindsayRichards wrote:
pianotuna That graph is rated capacity not actual. Solar and wind average less than 25% of the rated capacity, so your chart does not show what you wanted it to. Sorry.
โJul-03-2017 10:58 AM
โJul-01-2017 03:19 PM
tomman58 wrote:
Lindsay is back for a day and some are clamoring to kill this thread, pathetic.
I am thankful for diesel not exceeding $5.00 a gallon. Back in 2008 Diesel went over 5 bucks for a short time. When I put together my budget for retirement I used $7.00 for my fuel requirements. We sure have beat that and when you couple it 3% inflation we have had a great run for those 9 years. Let us hope that now with a glut in oil we can enjoy more years of low costs. When RVing I get 11MPG mostly and that my friends equals a great retirement.
โJul-01-2017 02:46 PM
โJul-01-2017 01:47 PM
โJul-01-2017 01:19 PM
Cummins12V98 wrote:
"I guess it depends where your power comes from. In many countries most of the power does not come from fossil fuel. In my province pretty much all power comes from water falling over a turbine."
Well then you are killing Salmon!!!
There is NO free lunch. OH let's not forget the horrific Nuclear power.
I think someone should start a new topic and get back to the intent of this thread!
MODERATOR ???
โJul-01-2017 12:47 PM
โJul-01-2017 11:52 AM
LindsayRichards wrote:
I know of no countries that get 50% of their power from these two sources on a yearly basis,
โJul-01-2017 11:17 AM
โJul-01-2017 10:58 AM
LindsayRichards wrote:
We have over 200 years of natural gas with today's technology. Coal is losing ground in the US due to natural gas due to fracking, but not in most of the world. See link below about coal usage in CHina and India so far this year.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2017-06-26/coal-on-the-rise-in-china-us-india-after-re...
Electric and hybrids make up 0.7% of new vehicle sales and may not be as clean as you think. Most of the recharging power comes from fossil fuels. You are exchanging the tail pipe for the smoke stack. See at link below about making them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_WscmJSB2c
The notion that wind and solar are cheaper that natural gas depend on the crazy notion that billions of dollars of medical costs and hundred thousand people die each year from it. Please name one.
โJul-01-2017 09:07 AM