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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes
lol...it's constantly being upgraded and improved as we move forward. People are using EVs from "the grid" as we speak. It works for the current use, it will be upgraded as use continues. There will be business opportunities and work generated along the way. You are terrified by something new that you don't fully understand. Electricity is more efficient to beam to your house than trucking oil all over the globe with various vehicles to sit in tanks at gas-stations that themselves required oil to produce. The great thing about EVs is they don't care what the source is, geothermal, solar, hydroeletric, tidal, wind, fusion, fission, coal, gas-turbine, etc...Not only that, but gas-turbine has exceeded 50% carnot efficiency a number of years ago, a barrier once thought impossible, up around 65% now. Add to that how scale-able the installations are and how little infrastructure they require, it's no wonder they are becoming the power-generation method of choice for many cities/urban areas. Not sure if you are aware, but Nuke plants are horribly inefficient. It "seems" like "free energy!" on paper, but all the building, security, storage, and massive infrastructure does not come out "on top" as far as efficiency and cost, this is one big reason why it's fallen out of favor, it's just too expensive to keep running. That doesn't mean don't invest in research, but practically, it's not the sure-shot that it was once believed to be.
I've seen huge increases in battery life from what was in production 20 years ago, I run LED lights on Li Ion batteries at night for hours on end. Phones that last all day using various features, etc. Of course, we always seem to find new ways to drain them, but that doesn't mean the capacity is going up. Tiny little batteries the size of your fist turning over massive lycoming IO-540 engines.
I believe you are terrified of the future because it will be different. People felt the same way about the horseless carriage.
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Im not terrified of anything. The technology doesnt bother me except for it isn't as "green" as you guys are claiming. And there will be consequences to producing billions of pounds of toxic waste in these batteries when they are done. I'm open to listening to guys like you, but the problem is guys like you are too quick to right guys like me off as being afriad or wearing a tinfoil hat when we bring up issues with this technology and the people searching for the control of the economy. I understand stand more of it than you know. Just because I dont agree with what your selling doesnt mean I dont understand it. Ill try to be here in 20 years so you can say "I told you so". I hope you and guys like you are right, but people have become very selfish these days and more power hungry than ever before.
I have very little faith that anyone is trying to help the greater good anymore over just thinking about themselves. Just the simple fact that nothing is built to last anymore shows me that. We pay three times more for crap that you throw out in two years and then buy another one. My guys changed out a furnace yesterday that was 47 years old operating in a commercial environment. It still ran. The issue was the blower bearings were shot and replacements where not available. The new furnace we put in is good by today's standards, but it wont be there in 47 years. It will be lucky to make it half of that.
I know this thread went south with my comment about Elon putting his trash into space, but it has been quit informative and interesting. I do appreciate all your comments and replies to my views of this. I'll ponder on them today while I have my guys out keeping people warm, their water hot, their food cold and their ability to process and cook it working. There are a lot of fossil fuels involved with all of those processes. Are they all going to change to electricity or run off batteries too? Wow! That's alot of power usage. Lol
Dont you just love the idea of having all your eggs in one basket? I dont. That is a recipe for failure every time.
