Posted on 04/22/2020 9:11:40 AM PDT by RightGeek
The Narrative exists largely to protect people from the dirty and complicated business of facts.
What else are you clueless about, Michael?
I can now tell my ex I must not be an utter fool after all.
No he figures on mounting the windmill on top of his electric car and harnessing the slipstream. He’s a brilliant Liberal that is why is dad used to call him “Sunny”.
My sister has a Prius, and I rode in it.
The tiny, hard little skinny tires & low-slung chassis made my butt feel like it was dragging the pavement, and I could feel every pebble on the road.
The “quiet” engine had a high, almost dogwhistle pitched whine that sounded like a sewing machine on meth. It was just barely audible enough to give me a splitting headache.
No thanks. I’d advise a LONNNNGG test drive before you plunk down your money.
And here I was all along thinking that there were a bunch of hamsters in my walls running on wheels that were connected to AC generators.
We have both gas and battery powered mowers, weed trimmers, and chain & pole saws.
The battery powered tools are great for light duty yards & saplings— what I call “women’s work.” They’re also much easier for me to start.
For people with postage-stamp sized yards they’re perfect.
That said, they just don’t work for mowing acreage & felling the big trees.
“incurious” that seems to be the common denominator for leftists.
For whatever it’s worth, Michael Moors is the first liberal to figure out what’s been obvious to us for years... that energy signatures ARE real. If you’re using corn for fuel you have to add in the energy costs of fertilizer, tractors, farmer’s time and profit, truckers, ethanol factories, transportation etc etc etc... and it’s worse for ‘solar panels...
The fact Michael Moore was late to the party doesn’t detract from him being here. Better late than never... Maybe Moore can talk some sense into the other liberals. There’s only one solution out of this mess - and our side knows what that is... Let’s see if Moore can figure that one out.
Put up solar panels to crack water for the hydrogen. Win/win.
Funny thing, my boss bought a Tesla (he likes it).
Looked into getting Tesla’s solar panel installation thing on his house. But, the only way it would be even kinda worth it is if they covered the south side of his house (front) with the panels. But, the city won’t let them do it - panels have to be installed on back or sides only, where they are minimally visible from the street.
Forget the green excuse for electric cars. The above is the exact reason electric cars are good. They literally use any fuel that is available. Hydroelectric where available, natural gas where available, Nuclear power (though the number of nuclear plants are dwindling). An electric car takes advantage of the best way to make electricity for a particular area.
A typical coal plant has about 35% efficiency in converting coal energy into electrical energy. You lose 5% in transmission losses and 15% loss in charging an electric car. The electric motor in a tesla is 93% efficient at converting electric energy. So an electric car has an efficiency of about 26% of converting coal based electrical energy into power for your car drive train. (35% (coal eff)* 95% (transmission) * 85% (charging) * 93% (motor)).
A typical combustion engine is 20% efficient. Improvements in Coal power efficiency push newer plants to 48%. Which would boost an electric car to 29.7%. Newer natural gas plants can get to 60% efficiency (38% of electricity is from natural gas in the US) . So I look at an electric car as a variable fuel car. It easily captures the power from the grid. It's a coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear, solar and wind power machine all at the same time.
I knew where electricity came from when I was 7 or 8.
...and then he stuffed six Twinkies into his mouth at once.
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