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06-06-2022, 11:56 AM | #3 | |
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But we're saving the earth, lol. Why not clean up the main culprits, industrial, foreign countries, plants producing electricity, etc., that contributes to destroying almost 50%, lol? There's gotta be a balance. One dirty solution being replaced with another isnt, lol. |
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06-07-2022, 07:17 AM | #4 | |
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07-06-2022, 02:48 PM | #5 | |
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07-06-2022, 02:54 PM | #6 | |
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I remember when air was free at the gas station, too. You think the rate for electricity will remain static? |
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I don't know why they are forcing the issue. As soon as electric becomes a better option than diesel with pickups I'll be all over it. |
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07-06-2022, 08:17 PM | #8 |
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Like a broken record. Where we getting all this extra electricity?
Just about all single blocks of neighborhood homes in north America can only support three homes of full rip 90 amp Tesla superchargers homes. O, yeah, coal & natural gas power plants pick up the slack, lol. Last edited by rtmike; 07-06-2022 at 08:27 PM.. |
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07-06-2022, 10:24 PM | #9 | |
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But the US electrical supply and grid does need major, sustained investment. |
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07-07-2022, 07:29 AM | #10 | |
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07-07-2022, 10:17 AM | #11 |
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07-07-2022, 07:12 PM | #12 | |
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07-06-2022, 10:29 PM | #13 | |
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07-07-2022, 10:23 AM | #14 | |
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Chip shortages do not equal shipping lithium to China to be refined. if you think the cost of electricity isn't going to rise, more power to you. |
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07-07-2022, 03:23 PM | #15 | |
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Switching from ICE to electric vehicles at any sort of scale is going to require investment in infrastructure. Retiring coal plants and replacing them with something else requires investment. High capacity, long distance transmission lines would help, but I don't think the country has the political will to overcome the opposition and NIMBYism (and again topic for DC). Industrial scale battery storage, whether it is traditional batteries or something like pumped hydro, is viable politically. It is a question of getting the costs down. No, I don't think things are going to be rainbows and unicorns. I'm not actually very optimistic about this situation. There are some types of investment the country generally does a poor job of. Again I don't want to get myself or this thread booted but I think Texas and California represent two extremes and I think both have left consumers in bad shape. |
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