Posted on 09/26/2007 12:37:27 AM PDT by neverdem
Have to produce an electric car that is as efficient and as cost effective as the internal combustion engine.
Have to produce the technology and the infrastructure to support that car.
Have to produce the electric car and the infrastructure to support it as cheaply and as efficiently as gas is now produced and supplied.
EVEN if you meet all those requirements you are decades from moving off an oil based economy.
We did not become an oil based economy over night, we will not cease to be an oil based economy over night.
We’ll never be off of oil.
It’s a near-perfect form of stored energy, and if it didn’t occur naturally, we’d have to invent it.
Everything that has been suggested to replace it presents real problems that dwarf the imaginary ones that the anti-oil clowns dream up.
GreenSpam needs to have his tongue cut out.
Putting aside the fact that an electric car cannot be practical nor dependable, just how might a car that can only use energy produced elsewhere put the ragheads out of the deal?
Another feather-headed liberal dreamer!
There is a flaw in that logic:
When you put a stepdown transformer into the circuit so that the juice can be used, then there are large thermal losses when a large part of the capacity is unused.
Are you sure?
But it can be replacement for imported oil. We have centuries worth of shale oil in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. It take a lot of heat to crack the shale and extract the kerogen in the shale and turn it into a usable oil product. The heat would normally come from burning a percentage of your product in the cracking and distillation process. Nothing makes heat at a more economical price than nuclear power. Co-located shale oil production and nuclear power plants would be ideal. The nuclear power plant could make the high pressure high temperature steam for the shale oil plant. Any excess energy from the nuclear power plant could be used for electrical power generation.
There is only one problem. Every moon bat barking dog environmentalist wack job tree hugging left wing fool socialist radical with the total support of the democRAT party would oppose this.
I apologize for including the demoRATS in the list as that is actually redundant to the list.
When we run out of oil, we’ll develop the technology real fast.
Until then, let’s drill everywhere and anywhere, all across America!
Caribou love oil wells!
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in the US half of electricity come from coal,
higher percentage at night, when cars would be charged.
in the US VERy little electricity comes from oil.
to 44 WTF are you talking about?
electricity comes mainly from coal.
of which, the US has a lot
I’m not sure I understand your rationale. In that case, the nuclear power would be replacing coal, not oil. This is what is happening up in northern Alberta, where the province has recently approved its first nuclear power plant to provide energy for oil sands extraction. The nuclear power is needed because there isn’t enough natural gas to run these operations economically.
It would not replace oil. It would reduce the amount of oil we import The use of nuclear power to drive the extraction process of the oil shale would decrease the amount energy needed from oil or gas products to get the oil out of the shale. Basically it would increase the percentage of product from the process and thus reduce the needed oil imports.
I like coal also. We should also use it to produce oil products. It can be done using a modified Fischer-Tropsch process. Nuclear power is also ideal to drive this process as it needs high temperature to react.
Dropped a few zeroes.
I’m talking about the fact that the only effect that electric cars can have on anything is to limit the mobility and personal safety of it’s occupants. It cannot have any effect on any ragheads that are not reduced to driving one.
I am definitely not a liberal. But the rest of the attitude has always been used against the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, Marconi, Ben Franklin, Christopher Columbus, Alexander Graham Bell, Morse you name them. if everybody had your attitude we would be living in the middle ages.
And this dude used to run the CIA !!
You apparently fail to realize that the ‘solution’ that you offer lacks a problem to solve, and carries with it great and vexing problems that far exceed any present oil delivery issues.
[One of the biggest myths in any discussion about this topic — and this myth gets perpetuated by the silly, asinine statements by many of our elected officials (including President Bush in a speech on this subject a while back) — is that nuclear power can somehow help the U.S. “overcome our addiction to Mideast oil.”]
The connection to the “myth” is more indirect than that. Many people use the shortage of electrical generating capacity as an argument against electric vehicles. So increasing the supply of cheap nuclear power would eliminate that particular argument against electric vehicles, and that would reduce the need for oil.
When people are contantly warned about brownouts and rolling blackouts due to excessive electrical demand, they are not receptive to the concept of electric vehicles placing additional demand on the grid.
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