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March 26, 2015 at 11:02 am
I would hope that the shortcoming of the electric car (range/refuel time) would be the advent of further mass transit infrastructure, at least in America.
This is why I think the European market is better set up for electric vehicles.
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March 26, 2015 at 11:08 am
Electric cars are never going to be totally environmentally friendly until we invent an efficient way to produce electricity without all the pollutive waste.
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March 26, 2015 at 11:16 am
(March 26, 2015 at 11:08 am)Stimbo Wrote: Electric cars are never going to be totally environmentally friendly until we invent an efficient way to produce electricity without all the pollutive waste.
There are ways to generate electricity by harnessing the sun's heat, not light as with those polluting photovoltaics, but heat... warm up water in a closed circuit.... warm it enough and you get water vapor... steam... steam engine.
http://www.cnet.com/news/a-solar-hot-wat...icity-too/
But there's always some waste. The materials used have a finite duration and need replacing - not sure how recyclable that can be...
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March 26, 2015 at 11:16 am
(March 26, 2015 at 11:08 am)Stimbo Wrote: Electric cars are never going to be totally environmentally friendly until we invent an efficient way to produce electricity without all the pollutive waste.
Alex K said he's right on the edge of solving cold fusion. Just a few more illicit tests.... I've said too much. Sorry Alex! Never mind, NSA agents! Nothing to see here....
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March 26, 2015 at 11:20 am
As I understand clean sources of electricity, they're not (yet) efficient to the point where they might replace fossil fuel and nuclear power.
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March 26, 2015 at 11:23 am
(March 26, 2015 at 11:20 am)Stimbo Wrote: As I understand clean sources of electricity, they're not (yet) efficient to the point where they might replace fossil fuel and nuclear power.
From a greenhouse gas point of view, nuclear is clean... and I mean fission.
Fusion is much cleaner... but not feasible yet... sadly.
I remember Scotty being amazed at fusion power, so I wouldn't wait around for that to come by anytime soon. 23rd century is still a while away.
Then again, he had dilithium crystals... maybe we should go that way....
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March 26, 2015 at 11:28 am
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You're right that nuclear is certainly cleaner than fossil in that there's no greenhouse gases, but of course there's all that inconvenient radioactive waste to get rid of. And we'll inevitably run out of Russian agents to eat it all.
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March 26, 2015 at 11:32 am
(March 26, 2015 at 11:16 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: (March 26, 2015 at 11:08 am)Stimbo Wrote: Electric cars are never going to be totally environmentally friendly until we invent an efficient way to produce electricity without all the pollutive waste.
Alex K said he's right on the edge of solving cold fusion. Just a few more illicit tests.... I've said too much. Sorry Alex! Never mind, NSA agents! Nothing to see here....
The secret to cold fusion is using centar manure as a catalyst. So there will be no big breakthroughs in cold fusion until some rouge biologist creates a human-horse chimera.
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March 26, 2015 at 11:36 am
(March 26, 2015 at 11:28 am)Stimbo Wrote: You're right that nuclear is certainly cleaner than fossil in that there's no greenhouse gases, but of course there's all that inconvenient radioactive waste to get rid of. And we'll inevitably run out of Russian agents to eat it all.
Actually, if we believe the power plant engineers, 4th generation nuclear plants will be able to use every last ounce of radioactivity from the uranium and the waste will be only inert ash...
That's a great boast, but I don't see it applied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
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March 26, 2015 at 11:38 am
(March 26, 2015 at 11:32 am)popeyespappy Wrote: So there will be no big breakthroughs in cold fusion until some rouge biologist creates a human-horse chimera.
Already been done:
No idea if it was a rouge biologist or an ordinary one, though.
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