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To: sodpoodle
35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.

That is really nice, except the fairies and unicorns will have to work overtime...

5 posted on 06/22/2020 2:13:27 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: fhayek

“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.


24 posted on 06/22/2020 2:26:39 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: fhayek

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.


40 posted on 06/22/2020 2:41:17 PM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: fhayek

Yes, I love that. What an idiot. All these ways electricity demand is going to go up, so it gets cheaper. What a doofus.


106 posted on 06/25/2020 10:38:27 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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