POPO AGIE
SILVER Star
For now we still live in a Free Enterprise system and you can still spend your money on what you want.
I work in the Power Industry and have worked on the most powerful engines in the world from small line turbines to 1500 MW turbines and generators. I have first hand knowledge of what it takes to generate large electrical power you can feel and hear the work going on as a turbine drives the generator.
The problem is these large turbines are being taken off line and replaced with wind and solar which are unreliable and intermittent. The grid operates in balance you cannot generate more power than is being taken off or the inverse you have to generate enough power to keep up with demand. Turbines, gas or steam run 24/7 wind and solar do not.
Both Musk and the head of Toyota have told the US Government that this country does not have the power generation to support everyone to have EVs the grid will collapse and is very stressed now. The UK already has the ability to pull the power out of the batteries of cars plugged in to charge and they may not have a charge to get to work.
At the beginning of the 20th century the automotive industry was getting started, we had more choices for a car. We had steamers, gas and diesel, electric and they all competed in the marketplace. Gas and Diesel cars won. Today's EVs are plagued with the same problems they were at the beginning of the 20th century with a couple more to add to the list, but all cars made advances in over 100 years and are much more complicated some good and some bad. The Europeans have started picking up burning EVs and dunking them in tanks of water because of the large amount of water it takes to cool them down so they don't continue to reignite that only works of the car is on the street.
There is no free lunch when it comes to EVs or ICEs they consume energy and with the consummation there are emissions. EVs have toxic emissions in the production of the batteries and then at the end of life. Then emissions from the power generation, ICEs at the tail pipe.
I have done several outages on two steam turbines that use captured solar energy to use to generate steam and they cannot run 24/7 because they are dependent on sunlight.
The turbines were failing because they spent half the time on turning gear waiting to start in the morning once the sun came up. The operators have to keep an eye on the weather because if there is cloud cover they may not be able to start the turbine in the morning because they can't take the BTUs from the solar mirrors and generate steam.
Once the grid collapse, we will either be walking or riding a horse. Or cars with small reactors to drive the electric motors. Don't laugh, there were experiments to use nuclear energy for cars and aircraft.
I work in the Power Industry and have worked on the most powerful engines in the world from small line turbines to 1500 MW turbines and generators. I have first hand knowledge of what it takes to generate large electrical power you can feel and hear the work going on as a turbine drives the generator.
The problem is these large turbines are being taken off line and replaced with wind and solar which are unreliable and intermittent. The grid operates in balance you cannot generate more power than is being taken off or the inverse you have to generate enough power to keep up with demand. Turbines, gas or steam run 24/7 wind and solar do not.
Both Musk and the head of Toyota have told the US Government that this country does not have the power generation to support everyone to have EVs the grid will collapse and is very stressed now. The UK already has the ability to pull the power out of the batteries of cars plugged in to charge and they may not have a charge to get to work.
At the beginning of the 20th century the automotive industry was getting started, we had more choices for a car. We had steamers, gas and diesel, electric and they all competed in the marketplace. Gas and Diesel cars won. Today's EVs are plagued with the same problems they were at the beginning of the 20th century with a couple more to add to the list, but all cars made advances in over 100 years and are much more complicated some good and some bad. The Europeans have started picking up burning EVs and dunking them in tanks of water because of the large amount of water it takes to cool them down so they don't continue to reignite that only works of the car is on the street.
There is no free lunch when it comes to EVs or ICEs they consume energy and with the consummation there are emissions. EVs have toxic emissions in the production of the batteries and then at the end of life. Then emissions from the power generation, ICEs at the tail pipe.
I have done several outages on two steam turbines that use captured solar energy to use to generate steam and they cannot run 24/7 because they are dependent on sunlight.
The turbines were failing because they spent half the time on turning gear waiting to start in the morning once the sun came up. The operators have to keep an eye on the weather because if there is cloud cover they may not be able to start the turbine in the morning because they can't take the BTUs from the solar mirrors and generate steam.
Once the grid collapse, we will either be walking or riding a horse. Or cars with small reactors to drive the electric motors. Don't laugh, there were experiments to use nuclear energy for cars and aircraft.
