But both the Edsel and Delorean are sought after collectable cars. I doubt any
of the current crop of plug in greenie weenie cars will be much sought after.
Not so sure todays kids will look back upon their time in a priapus the way
kids did 40 years ago with a VW Bug.
clay
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Curly wrote:
If those small nuke plants ever become reality, that could
move up the list. The problem with nuke now is that they
are very large, and very expensive to build, and operate,
and contribute to terrorist concerns.
As I understand, thorium reactors are much safer to operate
and
Yeah, a pipe dream.
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Curly wrote:
If those small nuke plants ever become reality, that could
move up the list. The problem with nuke now is that they
are very large, and very expensive to build, and
But will probably never gain approval for production because people are
irrationally scared of nuke plants.
-Curt
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-Curt
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The electric car is a wonderful thing except
, June 02, 2015 2:57 PM
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But both the Edsel and Delorean are sought after collectable cars. I
doubt any
of the current crop of plug in greenie weenie cars will be much sought
after.
Not so sure todays kids
Not many people can afford 5 billion dollar car.
What about the Teslas where you can drive into a replacement
station, the old battery drops out, a new one is fitted in and you
drive away in 30-40 seconds without ever having left your car? Seems
pretty terrific to me for a car with a 200
Grant,
As much as I like picking on the greenie weenies I think you may have missed
the fact that the volt is a series hybrid, it has a gas engine so it can keep
going when the battery dies.
Actually in being a series hybrid I like it, conceptually anyway, a lot more
than a parallel hybrid
And how far is that Starbucks? ;)
Wilton snip
Wilton,
The nearest Starbucks to El Rancho Playa Fin Del Mundo is 92 miles, so if
I owned a Chevy Volt, I would only have to walk the last 47 miles to buy
that $9.00 latte`... Then of course, the tow bill to recover and recharge
the Volt so I
And how far is that Starbucks? ;)
Wilton
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It's OK
Don't forget all the nice clean electricity created by nice coal fired
plants.
RB
On 01/06/2015 11:57 PM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote:
It's OK... there is plenty of safe clean electrical power on our perfect
grid, which has zero defects from being left unattended for 50 yrs.. and
that free
Curt,
All true, I did take a little artistic license on the Volt, but it is such
a handy whipping boy when it comes to the whole green machine thing. Based
on sales volume and public acceptance, it has been a stunning..
failure...
Sort of like Edsel, or Delorian... grand idea, poor actual
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Curt,
All true, I did take a little artistic license on the Volt, but it is such
a handy whipping boy when it comes to the whole green machine thing. Based
Coal is the most underutilized resource in this country
The elektrojuicity I like best is hydro
Second best is solar, but it is impractical on a large scale. Great
for life off the grid
THird is coal. Relatively inexpensive, clean, as you say, and abundant
An added benefit from old coal
If I live in my city apartment, never walk on dirt, only take a subway
[electric of course] to work, and march in Green Earth Day Parade I don't
have to acknowledge those nasty things exist... unless I'm carrying the
protest sign that day..
Go Green, Be Clean... you know..
Reality is so harsh..
Coal is hardly relatively...clean. Where do you get such a wacky
notion? And inexpensive only if you value clean air, water, and lung
health at zero dollars.
Nuclear is only clean if you discount the environmental effects of mining
and the carbon footprint of the U3O8 enrichment plants, and
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And how far is that Starbucks? ;)
Wilton snip
Wilton,
The nearest Starbucks to El Rancho Playa Fin Del Mundo is 92 miles, so if
I owned a Chevy Volt, I would only have to walk
And get another ATTABOY.
Wilton
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Curt,
All true, I
I was gonna guess 50 mi. - thinking too small. ;) Having not
flown across that area in several years and not driven across it in
40+, it's easy to forget.
Wilton
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If there's even a 10% loss of efficiency by going cordless,
it would be criminal to adopt this. There's too much energy
'in play' when talking about the national EV fleet.
I'm sure this is relatively high frequency, compared to
the 60Hz grid.
-- Jim
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How dey gonna do dat? Lemme be quick to admit that my thoughts on the
subject are stuck on my 1950's to '80's engineering training. Isn't the
car gonna need a
Yes, I think so - it might not be terribly heavy, but you have to have a
receiving antenna/transformer coil in the car. My wirelessly charging
electric toothbrush gets warm while on the charger - there are losses in
this system that could be significant for the amount of current required to
charge
It's OK... there is plenty of safe clean electrical power on our perfect
grid, which has zero defects from being left unattended for 50 yrs.. and
that free power comes from clean nuculear plants which I never see, so it's
clean..
If I throw away a few million watts of power because I'm to lazy to
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