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Posted on 10/04/2021 6:12:50 PM PDT by karpov
There is zero political will to build new power plants. Elon Musk is a smart guy. Right now we should be building 20 new nuclear plants through the United States. But that is not going to happen. So EVs will not really take off until we build new power plants. So Tesla will remain a niche automaker.
***Oil Price are gloBULL warming shills:
21 Dec 2020: PR Newswire: The Great Reset: Wall Street Undergoing A $120 Trillion Transformation
(from ***Oil Price)
Big money is turning its back on companies that aren’t conforming to one simple idea. Sustainability. And it’s fueling one of the biggest transfers of capital the world has ever seen...
In fact, within a year, 77% of institutional investors will stop buying into companies that aren’t, in some way, sustainable. And the new King of Wall Street is leading the charge.
BlackRock, with over $7 trillion in assets under management, says its clients will double their ESG investments in just five years. Money managers on the Street are saying climate change is their top concern, and a ‘leading criteria’ when determining where they put their money to work.
Sustainable assets already account for $17.1 trillion, but there could be as much as $120 trillion up for grabs...
Other companies betting big on the ESG boom:
Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) is one of the leaders in the Big Tech push to go green...
NextEra Energy (NEE) is another shining star in the renewable world. NextEra is the world’s leading producer of wind and solar energy, so it’s no surprise that it has received some love from the ‘millennial dollar.’...ETC
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-great-reset-wall-street-undergoing-a-120-trillion-transformation-301196560.html
Wait until the gubmint tells you the batteries in your car need to be used to power the grid so no driving today.
In the minds of the left, they don’t mind spending a billion dollars per foot of wire to put it all underground.
Musk is right. Electric cars are the future but we need to generate the electricity to power them. I worry that leftists will purposely limit power to control us.
Yup. These lefty pukes want us all living in trees and caves in the end.
a rare occasion when BBC tells a few truths about “smart cities”. search smart cities + McKinsey and you would think it’s all progressing nicely.
***McKINSEY & CO’s involvement from 13m56s in:
AUDIO: 17m29s: 1 Oct: BBC World Service: Business Daily: Smart cities and broken dreams
Do smart cities live up to the hype? Urban centres from New York to South Korea’s Busan are rebranding themselves as ‘smart’. From real-time crime mapping to lower energy use, smart cities promise a shortcut to a better future. But what is a smart city? The BBC’s Technology desk editor Jane Wakefield explains. Meanwhile, brand new metropolises are being planned across Africa, often envisioned as shiny tech hubs. Will they ever get off the ground?
***And why are global consultancy firms often a key part of the story?...(VIRTUALLY ALL MCKINSEY & CO)...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1j0s
That's one way to say it. Here's another:
Tesla's Musk Envisions an America where Electric Bills are Twice as High.
Sure, he's got this grand scheme of solar roofing tiles, low pressure underground people movers, etc... but all of those plans rely on a wide adoption of each and every one of his particular answers for those critical problems, which coincidentally also are heavily subsidized by the government and still require significant consumer investment.
Fuk Musk!
The world is making a huge mistake going to electric cars, unless they are more than willing to go to nuclear power plants as the solution to generating more electricity.
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More like a triple double.
A sensible long term plan to double electricity production would be to build nuclear plants without shutting anything else down except for attrition.
Panels are cheaper than fossil already and their price will keep dropping. Most people doing the comparison add the panel cost but not the power plant cost. It's. definitely a mistake to prematurely close fossil. Obviously we need fossil baseload like Germany where they have the most wind and solar. But at 25 cents a Watt you can't go wrong anymore. That $250 worth of panels (1000W) will generate 1600 kWh per year here in Virginia. That's $80 of electricity at wholesale prices.
The whole ICE infrastructure has been optimized for 120 years. Petroleum exploration, production, enhanced recovery, refineries, pipelines for crude and finished products, tanker truck deliveries, filling stations, internal combustion engines, excellent emission controls, fast refueling. There is no way to duplicate that incredibly sophisticated system for EVs overnight. It will probably take a century to reach the same pinnacle of perfection as the whole extended ICE system. And there is no way in hell you can achieve that with wind and solar power plants.
I agree. “Renewable “ energy depends on rare earth minerals. China controls rare earth minerals at this point and it takes quite a while to develop a rare earth mineral mine.
Gasoline is stored in the tank. Electricity is stored in the battery. Have to admit I never thought of gasoline as very durable. It's actually quite volatile.
The question nobody is asking is “After a disaster how many hours does my emergency generator take to charge a Tesla?”
I did a search at tesla.com for emergency generator use for recharging a Tesla and could only find answers in the owner forums because Tesla the company itself does not mention it.
And if you burn your tesla up with your not approved emergency charger? - Tough luck.
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