Posted on 06/22/2020 2:08:09 PM PDT by sodpoodle
Only read this far. He's full of sh*t. Where does he think Electricity comes from? Vast majority comes from Coal and Natural Gas.
My 2018 Honda CRV is about halfway capable of driving itself. With Lane Assist and adaptive cruise control it can travel the Interstate with very little input from me. First time I saw it in action, I was amazed. Makes long car trips (remember them?) much easier. Because I’m older, I still keep my hands on the wheel and my foot ready to hit the brake. Studies have shown that younger drivers are much more trusting of the tech than geezers.
There is a company that offers a kit that upgrades all of this to the equivalent of Tesla’s Auto Pilot. I can certainly see kids being born right now never learning to drive—the car will do it for them. It happens. My grandfather, born in the 1870s knew how to drive a horse-drawn buggy and learned to drive a car. His son, my dad, never drove a horse in his life.
Electric cars may well be the future—but there’s going to have to be a battery breakthrough. Waiting up to an hour for a fill up won’t ever work for a lot of people. And that electricity isn’t going to generate itself.
“35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.”
If it is truly “cheap” it will be heavily taxed. Not unlike a landline home telephone where the taxes and government fees exceed the cost of the service in many location. Booze, cigarettes, and gasoline being other examples of heavily taxed inexpensive to produce products.
You missed the part about no one will own cars anymore. The rest of your points may or may happen.
Wow the first 5 are such 100% hokum I couldn’t get past it. Wish we could find the author, so we could throw rotten vegetables at him, cause he’s stupid and should feel shame.
I personally liked #26 best.
26- The Clinton Foundation will be killing people long after Hillary herself is gone.
They’ll Be Spandex Jackets, one for everyone.
Me too, as promised by Popular Science magazine. We will be astounded by change but likely not in the way the article described. Luckily I retired 5 years ago. Today my job is done by a set of algorithms.
better question what are you going to replace steel with, no coal no steel.
Most families will need a gasoline powered vehicle for long trips of more than 50 miles.
You assume no further disruptions in the current transportation marketplace.
Be aware of tunnel vision. Even my contribution here has problems with tunnel vision, who can predict what solutions will take hold that we can't dream of today.
NO, houses will generate electricity and sell it to the grid I don’t know who will buy the electricity, maybe those on the other side of the world in the dark. We can purchase their power during our night.
Everything ties into electricity, which must use Nuclear, Coal, Hydro or a new source. Solar panels and wind turbines are a joke.
Bkmk
There is not enough electicity generation capacity to move people around the country with it daily.
Not close.
Naive, short sighted futurism.
Ever take an Amtrak train any distance in the country? Incredibly slow and time consuming. I live in Reno, NV. I can easily drive to Sacramento in less than three hours. Amtrak takes 5-6 hours and dumps you out in a crappy part of town. Loading and unloading vehicles would add hours to the trip. Look into how well the Chunnel works. The only reason it is used is because the alternative is a boat at 13 mph.
I read an article recently somwhere about a major breakthrough in power capacitors. Maybe that’s the future ..?
Production of electricity from solar energy is a chimera. It shall NEVER be cost-effective, so long as it relies upon uninterrupted sunshine, and is tied to some kind of bank of batteries in “off hours”,
In fact, any application of electrical power that relies even in part on battery storage is both cumbersome and excessively expensive in terms of resources and dollars per unit of electricity that is supposed to be available.
On-board electric generation is the only practical solution for a self-contained system like a motor vehicle or remote location without access to a grid of power supply. This may be done in several ways.
One is the widespread adoption of hydrogen fuel cells, or a modification of the technology in which hydrogen may be generated from hydrocarbon sources to be used to power a fuel cell. Another is to make a very small Thorium-fueled nuclear reactor that may generate the electric power directly that is fed to the electric power units and other needs for the proper operation of the platform, as computer power or lighting.
The applied science is not yet there, but with determination, it shall come. Expect any such breakthroughs to be greatly resisted by the stasis that is the part of the human psyche.
Every once in a while, you have nimble minds that skip over this resistance. Pray for their inspiration.
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