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| Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Wednesday, June 27 2012 @ 01:34 PM EDT |
(battery technology is not there yet, neither are fuel cells,
quite,
there's already a ton of investment).
Yabbut it's all
being invested in the wrong thing - electric cars designed as
an adaptation
of gas-engine cars, and puny 2-3 KVAH battery packs suitable only
for
"hybrids", which are a lousy idea from the get-go: the appearance of
an
alternate mode of transport without the substance. Most electric car
development
is being done by corporations with a vested interest in making
electric cars FAIL!!
A properly designed electric car should get 70-80
miles of range from 20 KVAH
of batteries. We could do that, today, with 24
ordinary car batteries. Lead-acid
batteries are far from ideal but they
work, they are cheap, they are available
today, and there is already a
massive infrastructure in place to support 'em.
There are also better
batteries available, today. If we start building electric
cars there will be
a major economic incentive to build still better batteries; if
we wait
around for somebody to just invent the perfect battery for no
particular
reason, we will never build any.
If we burn less gas,
that will do all sorts of good around the world.
Yeah, solar panels are
manufactured in China - by slave labor, in a complete
absence of
environmental regulation. Bring all that investment, manufacturing
and
economic activity back to a (semi) free country.
You mention asteroid
mining. A practical way to reach orbit is a prerequisite
for any kind of
space industry. None of the existing space rocket systems are
in any way
practical.
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Major Strasser has been shot!
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