Terminator is pleased:
Posted on 06/22/2020 2:08:09 PM PDT by sodpoodle
Future projections and predictions tend to ignore the heart of man.
Collectivists make the same mistake.
Uh... I take photos on film. They come out better than digital in a lot of cases. Plus, I really enjoy the process of processing everything myself.
PJ’s Camera over here carries everything needed, and they do really good business.
We’re not. We go back to the Stone Age with inefficient windmills, solar panels and non-working electric motors.
Screw this BS; I won’t be giving-up my 2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee HEMI V8 anytime soon.
There are handheld RT-PCR models around $5000 now. They work with either a mucous swab or a finger stick blood sample. The need for six vials is passing.
There are manyhome test kits for various things now. Collect and mail your own samples, get results back in the mail
Very interesting. Fun the think about. Sadly, 38 points are given and 5 are suspicious.
5. “Gas pumps will go away.” Oil runs cars more efficiently than electricity. ‘Nuff said.
8. “Coal industries will go away.” Since 1980 some electricity has been produced by coal, shale and geothermal manufacturing. Coal and shale are here to stay.
23. “In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.” Yeah, right. Whatever. Computers are passive. ‘Nuff said.
26. “This will change our cities because we will need 90-95% fewer cars.” Impossible, since electrical cars will never take more than 20% of the auto market.
30. “Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla.” Please name one engineer from VW or Audi who is fearful of Tesla. ‘Nuff said.
36. “Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years.” False. Solar reached maximum efficiency in 1980 and has not improved since. ‘Nuff said.
Do you want good news? Here you go.
1. The world has enough food to feed 15 billion today and can sustain 30 billion. The 7 billion people today can live on one part of Long Island.
2. Plasma recyclers are the size of a semi truck and can do two things: recycle everything (glass, paper, batteries, tires, spent nuclear fuel) and produce electricity: every small town and city neighborhood should have one.
3. Fast integral reactors were invented by geniuses at UCSD in 1990 and are 100% clean and safe. They can run underground remotely and power 80% of every city. A major gift from God.
4. Boron is a trace mineral with the potential to power engines in cars and trucks. A $20 load of boron can run a car for ten years. Another gift from God.
5. Oil is a natural renewable substance and the world quantity of oil increases every year. Another major gift from God.
Change out the battery, like a propane tank.
No one should be afraid of electric cars putting them out of business until electric cars can take you 400 miles without needing to be recharged. And, the recharging must be done in the space for five minutes.
I think we spend the next Ice Age under a sheet of ice, with power provided by nuclear energy.
Basic auto repair shops will disappear... Lol
Because future cars won’t have axles, tie rods, brakes, bearings, transmissions, drivetrains, radiators or any other mechanical components apart from the magic electric engine?
+1
Man, this guy needs to change his bong water.
Change out the battery, like a propane tank.
You have to be of a “certain age” to remember that—or live in Japan.
Comparing the evolution of digital cameras to the rise of electric cars is stupid. getting all that power into the car quickly is a bigger problem than this guy seems to understand.
Terminator is pleased:
The very first item is wrong.
It assumes that a feature rich vehicle, just because it has an electric motor, won’t need repairs. Wrong.
Sensors - there’s “only” hundreds of them
Suspension(!) - control arms, tie rods, linkages, grommets
Electronic control units - many today have ~100, now add battery management, battery charging systems
Battery thermal management - heating & cooling systems
Moonroof/sunroof, convertible, motors and mechanisms
Bearings, brakes
Latch mechanisms, door keycodes, seat mechatronics
Infotainment systems, speakers, amplifiers
Window cracks
Smart technologies, like headlights
V2X & cloud connectivity
...and on and on
Second, if everyone had an electric car that they charged from home today - you would blow every single residential transformer. Our infrastructure can’t handle it, any transition will take time.
This is far too large of a prediction. Will some of it happen eventually? Sure, but not as quickly as many are predicting. The batteries still have a long way to go and without nuclear I’m not sure where all this energy will come from, even WITH coal.
That’s a ways off; glad I won’t be around to go thru it.
The word "much" in that statement is a bit much.
When you see a brown cloud over a city about 90% of that are particulates from dirt kicked up by the tires on the vehicles not from exhaust emissions. The tires themselves contribute to that pollution as they are gradually ground to a superfine dust.
I presume electric cars will still have tires that go 'round and 'round kicking up dust.
by the stasis that is the part of the human psyche.”
I don’t think I quite understood this stasis until I read of the people who said, as the first “talkie” movies came out : “It’s just a fad. It can’t replace silent films.” The counterintuitive aspect to that blew me away.
“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.”
Driverless cars will be maddening when they won’t go faster than the speed limit. It takes forever to get anywhere when speed limits are still in place that were set for cars made in 1920.
I agree with the author on most of the points in the article.
Young children today might not ever need a drivers license. I have seen it reported that all current car manufacturers are so far behind Tesla that they may never catch up.
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