Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[airbiscuit]

No need to wait

 

[Hay Dude]

But that type of energy is being eviscerated and replaced by windmills and solar panels.
Oh wait, I forgot it takes coal to recharge the EV batteries because solar and wind can’t do it.
Nukes baby.

 

[airbiscuit]

Renewables and natural gas are putting coal out of its misery (and ours). RIP Dirty Coal. Nukes are fine as long as they can find a place to safely store the nuclear waste.

 

[Hay Dude]

No need to wait. https://semspub.epa.gov/work/HQ/100002125.pdf

Great so we will have the existing coal and the new electronics and battery waste problem.
France is 75% nuclear energy
Maybe we could learn that we can power our future that is American made instead of unboxing solar panels from a nation vowing to take over the world? Or not building wind turbines that destroy migrating birds and end up buried in landfills like giant dinosaur bones.

 

[Jstpssng]

Renewables and natural gas are putting coal out of its misery (and ours). RIP Dirty Coal. Nukes are fine as long as they can find a place to safely store the nuclear waste.

If we had continued researching the technology rather than hiding with our heads in the sand after 3MI, a lot of the problems with nukes would have been solved. When trying to envision what it could be like in 50 years I like to think back on the changes which we've seen since 1971. Every solution creates 10 problems.

 

[Solitary Man]

I believe solar power has unlimited potential, as does ocean tide turbines; but wind? Not so much.

 

[Hay Dude]

I believe solar power has unlimited potential, as does ocean tide turbines; but wind? Not so much.

The windmill farms I see in the mountains look terrible. They ruin views for miles. The solar farms look terrible, too many and do who knows what to the hundreds of acres of ground below them.
Give me a nuclear plant in one spot blowing the doors off that stupid foreign made junk and making more energy, too. We know so much more about nuclear energy now.
Use clean burning natural gas and nukes.

 

[MoKelly]

in Seattle once i spent 5 minutes at a gas station just trying to figure out how to open the gas door. the station was directly across from the rental car office so i called them and told them to send over a tech to open the gas door. they laughed and told me to just bring it back and not to worry about the gas, common problem on that model.

Funny.

I once borrowed a friends Harley V-Rod.

Decided to return it with a full tank.

Couldn’t for the life of me find the gas fill cap.

Always had bikes with the gas cap easily seen on the tank.

Called him and asked.

Turns out it was under the seat.

Getting the seat up was yet another adventure.

MoKelly

 

[Torvy]

I believe solar power has unlimited potential, as does ocean tide turbines; but wind? Not so much.

According to my Environmental Science professor, tidal energy is too limited...very specific geological situations must exist...like in the Bay of Fundy.

Solar is only efficient in certain latitudes.

I don't mind supplementing with those, but nuclear is our current best option that is not fossil fuel.

I am still a proponent of using all options.

 

[airbiscuit]

Where will you safely store the spent fuel? Maybe Wyoming will take that on?