Question:
The press and the manufacturers conveniently fail to tell the public where the new power for all the new electric vehicles is being generated. Solar energy? Wind? Hydro? Nuclear? Fossil- oil/natural gas/ coal? What about the emissions / risks of new electric plant development? Who is listening and pray tell, who is better still asking?
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Did you know you are driving an electric car right now? It's true. Lots of electricity is used to refine gasoline.*
If demand for gasoline falls, let's use that same electricity to charge our electric vehicles.
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Did you know that lots of energy goes to waste overnight? It's true. Most large powerplants take too long to shut down and start up, so they run all night, even after demand for electricity stops.
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Guess when most electric vehicles charge? In the evening and overnight, when demand for electricity is lowest.
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Did you know that a small solar panel, big enough to charge an electric car, is really pretty affordable? Given the chance to reduce their car's fuel cost (and pollutants) all the way down to ZERO, do you think a few people might be willing to spend a thousand dollars or two to put solar panels on their garages?
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Amazing how some problems just evaporate when you think about them.
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In the US, most of our power comes from coal burning power plants. So electric cars don't help unless we build more clean power. IE nuclear, wind, solar, hydro, etc.Which car manufacturer is better Lexus or Mercury?
I totally agree with your thoughts.The one big advantage to using the grid power is that it can be made more efficiently than the automotive engine can,but it's only a small step in the right direction.A bolt on a car engine is to be tightened with a torque of 35 Newton meters?
Have you watched the Flintstones where they run with the car while sitting in the car, that how they are going to get power in those new electric cars.Electric cars come with basically a plug that you put into a wall. They think they are helping the ozone and not creating as much fuel emissions by using electricity but that only pulls more electricity coming from the wall...And the electricity coming from the wall comes from a generator that runs on gasoline and creates fuel emissions so basically they are not helping anything.
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Good eyes. Being in the car industry myself for employment I have really looked over the future of it all.Whats the best soution to stop tail-gaters whilst driving?
Electric seems great but like you said, what are they going to use to make all that electricity let alone how are they going to pump that many watts and amps through the lines, the lines that are already over worked and used now. All over the world we have black outs due to the power grid already being maxed out. Now they want to add more to it at like 10 to the 9 power worth?
Then they mention Hydrogen. At first this seems like the answer, just pour in water and go. But they don't inform you that it has to be pure water, not just tap. Plus they don't mention it still takes something, oil, gas, etc to create a heat source cause the hydrogen process to begin. Let alone hydrogen is a source to store power, not give power. Its not feasible even w/o looking at the explosiveness of it.
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Solar would seem the way to go, but we can't put enough solar panels on a car to make it work well. Unless we are all going to lay down and ride in a bike framed car made of nothing but solar panels. So that thought is out.
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(we could be an awesome solar world today if we never let big oil not let solar technology expand over the yrs, stuff is still the same as it was 30 yrs ago)
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So what is left? Everyone go to scooters and such? Seems logical, other countries do it. Solves parking, gas usage, waste of materials for a car compared to scooter. But we are still at the original problem, using gas, making pollution and scooters put out 4 times the noise pollution as a car. So imagine a world of scooters, would sound like a billion bumble bee's all the time non stop.
So what is left, honestly left? Horse and buggy. Cause that can fuel up anywhere, in any field, no plug, no tires, no gas, no exhaust. Seems radical, nuts, looney, but when you sit down and look at it all, its really the only answer.
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Remove oil, remove cars and you will remove the society we know today. There will be no need for large city buildings, nothing you see today. Just removing the car will take us back to 1875 type of living over night. Sure we have homes, small towns, roads, but its all horse n buggy, few small steam cars.
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Now some say go back to steam power. Well think of the billions of cars all producing steam all day long. Would create so much water vapor we would no be creating weather and clouds in turn just messing with the weather system even more than CO2 does now.
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All we know today and have for the past 100 yrs has all been due to oil. The ride is about over..sure hope many are ready to live like their great grandparents did. I myself have already been looking into it all. Green homes, solar homes, well water, DC motor ran off paddle wheel in stream. How to buy, take care of, house a horse. Looking for one I can ride, pull a cart and plow a small field for my food.
The end is coming.and its coming faster than most even realize. Cars are my life, been my life since I was born, dad was a Snap on Tools guy for his entire career, bro races top fuel dragsters, I am a paint and cosmetics expert. So this is very deep thinking for someone like myself and my background.
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Well, you can do what I've done...install a home photovoltaic system. Yes, the upfront cost is expensive, but with the federal/state tax credits and utility rebates, you can knock off about 40% of the cost. Now you are generating ZERO emission electricity to not only charge your car, but power your house as well. And you'll never have to pay for electricity again (or at least 25 years, the lifetime rating on my panels). Maybe the best perk: decrease your dependence on Middle East oil!methane.
CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O + heat
heat + H2O = steam
steam + generator = electric potential
if you watch southpark you know that "smug" is a very powerful fuel.
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They use substantially less energy. Even though they still use it. The amount of energy used to power a conventional vehicle is substantially higher than an electric vehicle. ( no matter where the energy/power/fuel comes from) Look it up the info. on it is abundant. Also look at alternative power plants, and what is already in use around the world and under construction here in the U.S.What do you think of the newer Smart Car for the US?
Nuclear, you should read popular science there are many new Nuclear power pants being built now!More Questions & Answers ...
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