Posted on 07/27/2016 6:48:55 AM PDT by rktman
Things don’t look good for electric cars these days -- but did they ever? Tesla experienced a series of recalls, even before the recent crash in Florida that put the company’s autopilot system in the spotlight. Apparently, watching a Harry Potter movie and letting your car drive isn’t exactly a safe practice.
But the real problem with electric cars is actually the problem they’re marketed to solve: pollution. While the left insists that electric cars are the only way to protect the environment, they’re actually damaging the oil industry while shifting money to liberal interests.
Meanwhile, electric cars have proven to be a greater source of pollution than traditional vehicles.
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“by burning oil or coal or by nuclear fusion.”
Nuclear fission.
If fusion worked it would solve all our energy problems.
Yep. Signed it yesterday. Now awaiting the emails every day asking me to send money!
Or gasoline. The batteries are charged gasoline; directly or indirectly.
Ya. Darn them!
But fun just the same.
GASP! A EVIL PETROLEUM CLIMATE CHANGING AIR POLLUTING SMELLY FLAMMABLE FUEL!....................................
Agreed. Unfortunately, fusion is not “there” yet and apparently not for many years.
Plus, it would take decades to upgrade the grid that distributes the power from the “fusion power plant” to our homes.
Hey, one option is to have your own fusion power plant right outside your home next to your AC. :)
You are dreaming. There will be a revocation of the Zero anti coal agenda. While gas may replace some of the coal fired units, it will be far from total. Clean coal is the current standard and it works.
the only real substitute for coal is nuclear. the hysteria of nuclear power is overblown and chicken littleish. What is needed is small nuclear power plants rather than the humongeous one currently favored.
There is nothing morally superior about using hybrid technology to power road vehicles. The internal-combustion engine tied to an electrical booster motor to deliver power to the wheels, and using the electrical charge-discharge cycle of battery units to store energy from the regenerative braking, and for assist on start-up and acceleration, is in fact an interesting technological achievement, but not better or worse than, say, using a completely enclosed condensate-boiler steam engine to drive the wheels, similar to the Abner Doble design of the 1920’s.
Steam power has a wide array of advantages over internal combustion engines, both in terms of flexibility and with proper design, including heat regeneration and a completely enclosed system, overall efficiency. Anything that generates heat, or extracts it from another source, can drive a steam motor, including such things as compressed natural gas, propane, fuel oil or coal, or with the application of a very small Thorium-fueled Molten Salt nuclear reactor, the power may be generated directly on board the vehicle.
Uranium-fueled light water reactors are just a little too cumbersome to be used as a mobile power plant on anything smaller than a good-sized ocean-going vehicle.
Someday. I've been hearing of some research that looks promising. But still many years from being practical.
The work environemnt in the cubicle jungle is surely a test!
Yeah I would not even waste my breath this guy is a goner.
LOL
God Bless America and Americans!
Go Trump.
There are two types of nutty enviro types — 1. the type who doesn't have a clue and does it because it makes them feel good; 2. the wacko enviros who would be happy if half of the human population died off tomorrow and the rest were on the verge of constant starvation and stuck eating bugs and grass for nourishment.
Yep.
Good catch.
Agreed!!!
Go Trump!
The question: will fusion be in mainstream production before all other sources of power are eliminated and we are stuck with solar and wind. Unlikely.
Which means that there will are be brownouts and energy shortages in our future because of the stupidity of the voters and people pushing the green agenda.
Plus, we will all be paying much higher taxes “to stop global warming.”
Hybrids might have potential - recover energy when braking, charge when idling, use the battery at low speed or instead of idling. Actually makes a sort of sense.
Electric cars are coal powered (unless you are lucky, then they are nuclear or hydroelectric powered...).
But batteries do wear out, and the materials are expensive and toxic. I’d love to see an honest evaluation of battery life and savings vs. cost. I bet they are not available for a reason...
It's a damn good thing, too, because there are no more operating raw lead smelters in the USA, so our only US source of lead is to mine what's already been mined (recycle). I make fishing sinkers as a little side business, and it's getting harder each year to find cheap scrap lead.
I am leaving current experimental where fusion is said to occur but it's a break even thing. As much energy is released as is used to force the event.
Steam has its merits but a person has to be patient when using steam while the steam comes up to operating temperatures and pressures. How long does that usually take?
You mean fission not fusion! Fusion is something different.
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