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No doubt. That's the conundrum were facing if people are unwilling to go nuclear.
Think of ethanol as stored solar energy.
Charging network plus power plants plus solving the fast charge problem plus (at least in the US) coming to a common standard (otherwise you need the charging station which works for your particular vehicles)
Agree but I also think it involves accepting that there will be some climate change and the need to adapt to it (at least until there is some bigger tech solution for that).
In the long long run, over enough time, I also think we are all either doomed or off planet because something is going to get us (and of those things, climate change if fairly low on my list to lose sleep over). Far more worried about a nuclear exchange over the Baltics or Taiwan than the earth warming to a cinder or COVID.
That's one way to think about, but then lets just cut out the middle man, and go straight from sun to energy (I get the stored part I just don't know how efficient corn is at storage). Corn requires a lot of water as well.
Most US corn is produced in states that get their water from the sky. Hey, that's where the sun is too!
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”Maintain your old car” is not inconsistent with “buy electric for the new one.”. We can, and should, do both.
The rest is just more insults.
Well, that sucks bro.
How about all those transfers going to USC football? My dd and I were just talking about how weird it would be if she would have emailed the coach in 7th grade at one school we were told to email has had three coaches already. School first is for Juniors and seniors, not a 7th grader. Plus, kids want to play for a good coach. Girls get ripped for club hopping and looking for a good match with a coach. It's recipe for so much pain for our girls. Think about the players who gave SC everything and now their seat is taken from a transfer?
Don't we all effectively get our water from the sky? I appreciate that there is stored water in aquifers, but...Most US corn is produced in states that get their water from the sky. Hey, that's where the sun is too!
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Desert Hound
DA
The lack of awareness regarding many using/advocating electric vehicles is always interesting.
- They don't realize that in most cases in the US their electricity comes from fossil fuel powered plants
- They like to say drilling for oil harms the environment...completely overlooking the fact that to get the materials needed for batteries requires mining on a large scale.
And so on.
I am not against electric. But it isn't nearly as clean as it is presented to be.
- They don't realize that in most cases in the US their electricity comes from fossil fuel powered plants
- They like to say drilling for oil harms the environment...completely overlooking the fact that to get the materials needed for batteries requires mining on a large scale.
And so on.
I am not against electric. But it isn't nearly as clean as it is presented to be.
I see you are going with the ol run away from critiques and say its a personal attack rather than answer the critique head on (even when I've explained and actually said something nice I admire about you).
You still end up in your box BTW, which you can't figure out a way out of, because you don't want to go fully authoritarian, so settle for the preaching.
Magnetism bro. You need to get "Magnetized" brother. It's real and Tesla knows all about and so does the planet. We were so dumbed down that they kept it from us. Anyone who used their brain and figured free wireless energy was killed. That wanted to "charge" you and control you with a + and -. You of all people will be blown away when you see the TRUTH. It was always here, we were just lied to
USDA is not exactly an impartial observer on this, and 1.24 or 1.3 is not really good enough to justify the land use.
On the other hand, if the 5.4 switchgrass number holds up, I may become an ethanol fan.
Well, sort of. But down in San Diego, the sky that provides most of your water is rather far away.
I don't disagree and I ultimately think the sun and earth have much stronger control over the climate than we do. I think we've done a tremendous job in certain cases with improving water quality. Maybe a more efficient approach is to improve things on a case by case basis, i.e. scars here and there on the earth instead of trying to implement global policies that are likely to fail for a variety of reasons.
Yes, but some of us depend on long canals to get the sky water into our taps and toilets. Not a lot of that in Illinois.
I remember w standing in what looked like a Texas roadside ditch the first time he brought up switchgrass. I got the impression it was essentially a free weed, sort of like the blackberries that grow alongside the roads in Oregon.
Desert Hound
DA
California needs to up its water storage. The last major water projects in the state were in the 60s. Since that time the population has more than doubled.
They oversell electric, but it is still a big win.
A small electric car gets about 4 miles per kilowatt hour. A comparable size gasoline car with similar acceleration would get about 30 mpg.
Which means you have to ask whether 15 kilowatt hours are worse then two gallons of gasoline.
The electricity costs you 12.75 pounds of CO2. (using national average of .85 lbs per kwh)
The gas costs you 37.48 pounds of CO2. (average of 18.74 lbs per gallon)
Over the 180,000 mile life of the car, that saves you about 37 tons of CO2.
You still have to make the battery, which is more energy intensive than making a combustion engine. But you’re still saving around 30 tons of CO2 per car.
More, if you can switch to non-carbon power generation for your lithium refining.
"Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting".
Had a property in Utah that I subdivided. Only well water for drinking and local ditch for irrigation. Let me just say, you learn about your neighbors. Fun times getting that approved. Best part is the most opposition came from those that just recently subdivided or built themselves.
"The difference between a developer and an environmentalist is a developer wants to build a house in the woods and an environmentalist already owns a house in the woods."