Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[lman]

In fact, at an IQ test score of 145 or near-genius level, men outnumber women by 8-to-1. Furthermore, men are represented 10-15x more on the highest measurable levels of intelligence.

That's not what she said.

 

[PuffyC]

Meanwhile, take away the tax incentives and they will fail is happening already:

Yeah, kinda like farms who receive about 40% of their income from subsidies. Or government bailouts for banks and auto manufacturers. Or the $20 billion every year the gov’t hands out to the oil and gas industry, etc etc etc.

Molded Fiber Glass, a wind turbine plant, will be shutting down.
"MFG said in a news release that the closure will happen because of changing market conditions, foreign competition, and proposed revisions to tax policies affecting the wind energy industry in the United States."

South Dakota rocked again as a wind turbine plant shuts its doors

John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice in jobs in either the solar industry or as wind turbine

www.wind-watch.org

This is code for “the Chinese can make stuff cheaper because they use slave labor so give us money if you want manufacturing to stay in the US”. Personally I’m OK with that.

Glad you guys weren't NASA engineers back in the 60's... we'd never have made it into space. Doom and Gloom ...

You see this with all disruptive technology.

“Television won’t last”
”Data processing is a fad”
”Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible”

Every visionary had legions of folks telling them it was too hard so why try. Ignoring those naysayers is one of the many things that helped make America the great country it is today. Plus I’m too old to learn how to speak Chinese now.

 

[Hay Dude]

Yeah, kinda like farms who receive about 40% of their income from subsidies. Or government bailouts for banks and auto manufacturers. Or the $20 billion every year the gov’t hands out to the oil and gas industry, etc etc etc.



This is code for “the Chinese can make stuff cheaper because they use slave labor so give us money if you want manufacturing to stay in the US”. Personally I’m OK with that.


You see this with all disruptive technology.

“Television won’t last”
”Data processing is a fad”
”Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible”

Every visionary had legions of folks telling them it was too hard so why try. Ignoring those naysayers is one of the many things that helped make America the great country it is today. Plus I’m too old to learn how to speak Chinese now.

TRUE! Unless you’re a hay farmer.….

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Site Maintenance

 

[goeduck]

That's not what she said.

Right. What does logic, intelligence or reasoning have to do with being "smarter" than your wife? They have nothing to do with the matter. Men are just beefcake when a spider is on the ceiling, a car needs to be jump started, the checkbook needs to be balanced or something as trivial as that.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

My cousin is a researcher in water quality. 20+ years ago he got a contract from Caltrans for a study of the effect of tire rubber going into San Francisco Bay. I never heard the final result, but I expect a little digging online would find his conclusions, and others'.

The reason for hiring the study was concern that water quality was affected. I talked to him early in the project. At that point he hadn't shown that the particles were more than just inert mass.

More recently the concern over SF Bay and the related Delta, is for the tiniest fish that are the foundation for sustaining larger aquatic life - salmon, etc. The recent concern about microplastics might use his findings about quantity and location, and build on that for a more comprehensive model of what's going on.

There is a chemical that leaches out of tires that kills salmon in very low concentrations. I'm sure there will be a hot discussion about that, which will end with water treatment of street and highway runoff.

Tire chemical responsible for killing coho salmon in urban streams

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington Tacoma, UW and Washington State University Puyallup have discovered why more than half of the coho salmon that return to Puget Sound’s urban...

www.washington.edu

 

[California]

There is a chemical that leaches out of tires that kills salmon in very low concentrations. I'm sure there will be a hot discussion about that, which will end with water treatment of street and highway runoff.

Tire chemical responsible for killing coho salmon in urban streams

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington Tacoma, UW and Washington State University Puyallup have discovered why more than half of the coho salmon that return to Puget Sound’s urban...

www.washington.edu

Wow. So tire preservative additive is the culprit. Seems like it might be easier to mandate different rubber formulation, compared to capturing runoff everywhere.

 

[Hay Dude]

In the meantime, let’s get some laws written to halt tire production. We need a multi billion dollar study while rubber tires are unavailable to find the solution.…..Probably only take a few years….
The Amish sell & use steel wheels on tractors and buggies. We could equip the 200 mile range EVs with the steel tires. Tractors already have them…..No biggie!
We humans can do steel wheels…….wait, what about wooden wheels!!!!! We can use wooden wheels, too!
American ingenuity!

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Automotive Industry Asks for More Time to Change to EVs

I think this lack of money explains why most old OEM car makers will be leaving the market place over the next 20 years.

 

[Fixastuff]

In the meantime, let’s get some laws written to halt tire production. We need a multi billion dollar study while rubber tires are unavailable to find the solution.…..Probably only take a few years….
The Amish sell & use steel wheels on tractors and buggies. We could equip the 200 mile range EVs with the steel tires. Tractors already have them…..No biggie!
We humans can do steel wheels…….wait, what about wooden wheels!!!!! We can use wooden wheels, too!
American ingenuity!
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How much of each day do you spend thinking about environmentalists? Seems like they're living rent free in your head!