FishStalkerGuy
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Hydro electric works when you have water in the reservoirs.
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Hydro electric works when you have water in the reservoirs.
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a.wayne
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Everything Works if the plebs are willing to pay ..!
FishStalkerGuy
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With today's technologies solar and wind can barely light neighborhoods, hopefully in 2050 things would be much more advanced. It would be interesting to see how big these reservoirs would have to be to handle seawater to generate power without contaminating the land. Once seawater is introduced to the land everything around it dies, very high alkaline. Internet drawings are one thing but drawings to scale is another. Don't get me wrong, I believe we need alternative energy sources but the narrative today is a pipe dream.
How would you dispose of the spent batteries in these cars, the material inside are toxic. Buddy of mine owns a VW dealership and his people had to be trained wearing hazmat suits if the battery ever gets compromised.
How would you dispose of the spent batteries in these cars, the material inside are toxic. Buddy of mine owns a VW dealership and his people had to be trained wearing hazmat suits if the battery ever gets compromised.
TheOctopus
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Germany has wrecked their landscapes with a whole bunch of wind turbines and still imports 60% of its energy. 10% is coal imported from Russia, US and a few others.
a.wayne
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That's the least of our problems if current zeitgeist continues .....!
jadedavid
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Just up the road from me in Ludington MI, the power company in 1969 constructed a large reservoir (2.5 Mi x 1Mi) on the shore of Lake Michigan.
At night (off peak times) it utilizes excess electricity on the grid to run pumps to take water from Lake Michigan and fill the reservoir. Then during high demand they let it discharge thru turbines to generate power to meet increased demands. Capable of producing 1.872 Megawatts. Quite an engineering project.
However, electricity produced by solar, wind, etc do not have anywhere near the available energy potential to power the pumps to fill the reservoir.
Maybe some day but not in the last 50 years since it's construction. It works well and does a good job of providing for peaks without having to build a power plant and is basically environmentally friendly. (after they figured a way to stop sucking up large quantities of native Lake MI fish and grinding them up in the turbines.
TheOctopus
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Can't imagine a greater satisfaction than waking up to the sights and sounds of green energy...
NorthStar
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Toyota is not up with their game ...
• Why Is Electrification Pioneer Toyota Stalling With EVs?
They'll be left in the dust from the rear side view mirror.
NorthStar
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What do you do if you run out of gas on the highway? Call your AAA with your membership card so that they can bring a gaz can to you.
And if you are not a member, or that you forgot your cell phone?
Next time just make sure you have enough fuel in the gas tank before going to the Grand Canyon. :safe:
What about if you drive an EV and you ran out of charge somewhere in the middle of a desert?
• Check Out The 'Uber Eats' Of Electric Car Charging
And if you are not a member, or that you forgot your cell phone?
Next time just make sure you have enough fuel in the gas tank before going to the Grand Canyon. :safe:
What about if you drive an EV and you ran out of charge somewhere in the middle of a desert?
• Check Out The 'Uber Eats' Of Electric Car Charging
Shadowfax
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By the way, what do they use to make all the plastic parts and rubber tires on EVs? Petroleum?
So now we have to buy the oil from other countries to make plastic parts for our cars made with batteries from China.
Am I the only one that sees the silliness in all this? Cattle spew more greenhouse gasses than cars do in some areas and maybe one of the reasons they want us to eat synthetic beef.
So now we have to buy the oil from other countries to make plastic parts for our cars made with batteries from China.
Am I the only one that sees the silliness in all this? Cattle spew more greenhouse gasses than cars do in some areas and maybe one of the reasons they want us to eat synthetic beef.
CPP
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You are pretty much SOL, unless someone put a charge station close by and that requires power to that station from somewhere and paid for by someone.
CPP
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So let wipe out the cows all over the globe and hey people, pigs, horses, bear, deer, etc...etc.. fart as well, so take them out and lets see, well nobody will be here to see.
""Let’s get this out of the way: when some people hear the word “methane,” they immediately think about cow farts. (Hence stories like this, this and this). But in reality, cow burps are much more problematic: 90 to 95 percent of the methane released by cows comes out of their mouths, while 5 to 10 percent is released in the form of manure and flatulence. According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, livestock — including cows, pigs, sheep and other animals — are responsible for about 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Cows are the primary offenders, and each animal releases 30 to 50 gallons a day on average. And with an estimated 1.3 to 1.5 billion cows on the planet, that’s a whole lot of methane. But cows aren’t the main cause of our planet’s methane problem.""