The Heartland Institute’s Jim Lakely, Chris Talgo, Linnea Lueken, and special guest Jason Isaac of the Texas Public Policy Foundation present episode 422 of The In the Tank podcast.
The Biden administration is continuing to mandate the electrification of everything while at the same time pulling offline the reliable and affordable power generation and transmission that would make it remotely possible.
And this is a global delusion, not just a growing problem in the United States. Energy prices are skyrocketing and the “green energy” industry is now demanding even more government handouts – and permission to hike prices even more – to keep the scam going. But are we seeing signs that a rapid collapse of the scam is near?
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Show me the green,
The green scam might never end because it’s all about green.
Until of course you run out of other people’s money -:which the US did a long time ago
Yes, right now almost a $trillion is used to service annual U.S. budget debt and the trend is higher. The math doesn’t work to continue this trend indefinitely, so it won’t. It likely ends via spiraling hyperinflation perhaps followed by deflationary economic crisis.
The Dollar isn’t really falling against major currencies, despite the debt spending.
Maybe it says more about the rest of the world than the US?
Maybe not. But people with vast wealth and resources under their disposal still fancy their chances better in the US than with, say, the CCP.
The US will confiscate peoples money indirectly by deficits and inflation (leaving taxes out of it).
The CCP will confiscate it overnight if you express the wrong opinion.
But, most importantly, remember the old adage:
“The market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.”
CCP is in its own brand of trouble. Looks like everything could come crashing down around the world.
Both China and Russia are going to have serious problems with a rapidly aging population in the very near future.
On the train of wealth and freedom confiscation, we happen to be in the dining car.
The US is a bit insulated from its own decisions by the US dollar. When people are fearful, they tend to move into the US dollar, even if the basis of the fear is in the US.
It not the dollar but dur to our ancestor deciding North America was a great place to live, we have more harbors that the rest of the world combine. We have more navigable water the the rest of the world combine. Larger amount of farm land. Largest reserves of almost all minerals and oil. Coal we win hands down. Our only problems is out politicians can not pencil out the most simple problems’, after all most a failed lawyers and they are lawyer since unlike me they were good in English and poor in STEM, I was the reverse. I can graph something in my mind just with the numbers granted I might miss the nuance in some of the number but I can tease out the picture. Now to diagram a sentence forget it. I rather throw the cow over the fence some hay.
“The US is a bit insulated from its own decisions by the US dollar. When people are fearful, they tend to move into the US dollar, even if the basis of the fear is in the US.”
The US dollar has been tied to the price of oil and that’s been a hugely stabilising factor on its value.
Hasn’t the US confiscated Russian assets? So no safer than the CCP.
Don’t invade your neighbors and you will have no problems.
If you think that is comparable to disagreeing with the government, there is nothing I can do to help you.
Economic realities can only be sidestepped for so long. And EVs will not “catch on” until they are no longer plug in toys. People want real vehicles.
They’ll never catch on because they’re always catching fire 🤣
BINGO! The EV industry needs to fix that.
Not necessarily. Sell them all to countries like Canada or Switzerland with a euthanasia policy – you could have a race track with speed bumps on it and they could function as a last joyride, euthanasia machine, crematorium and coffin all in one.
Sheesh – don’t go giving Justin any more “brilliant” ideas.
Well, there is a market for that in the arson-oriented community. 😈
And gullible people with money to burn on virtue signalling means of transportation are diminishing exponentially…. as EV manufacturers are finding out.
That was bound to happen sooner or later. 🙂
There is only so much fake virtue the elite can find.
I would advise Elon Musk to diversify his holdings out of EVs, But precisely when, is a good question.
And, of course, I am not a qualified financial analyst, Elon.
Just stay away from the vacuum tunnel schemes.
An hour and ten minutes is a long time. How about a highlights version or a few bullet points in the text above?
I listen to the “In the Tank” podcasts. That way I don’t have to spend the time in front of a screen. I can listen while I am gardening or in the dentists waiting room.
I just listen to virtually everything, apart from original version with subtitles. Anything factual well scripted you only need occasional viewing of graphs, pictures and the like.
“An hour and ten minutes is a long time”
And that’s only for a partial charge. ! 😉
You got me with that one. 🙂
Mr. broker: Yeah, don’t listen to the whole thing, it might force you to think.
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I no longer count how many Teslas I see on my short drives to the grocery store, liquor store, hardware store my sister’s place to play Scrabble or some other less frequent destination. That’s because I nearly always see one or two. I don’t recognize other makes of electric cars. A few years ago we were in in San Jose, CA and Teslas were everywhere. In a little while I’ll be on my way to Manitowoc, a 70 mile 1.25 hour trip up I-43 from Milwaukee. Maybe I’ll remember to count and report here this evening.
We already have a hybrid (wife’s car). The old 2010 Ford Escape got ~20 mpg The 2021 Hybrid Escape gets ~40 mpg. My little 2 door stick shift 2010 Hundai Accent only gets 32 mpg.
I think I want a plug-in hybrid. My internet investigation shows that they will run on battery power for 10-20 miles or more before the engine starts. That means for my every day driving I wouldn’t use any gasoline. However, nobody makes a 2-door hatch back plug-in. Cooper Mini comes close, they have a 2-door electric and a 4-door plug in.
Electric cars are here to stay, they’ve already caught on. Are they going replace ICE cars completely? No, for all the reasons in the above article that I didn’t bother to read.
A practical small plug-in electric could probably designed around lead-acid batteries. About ten years ago in an earlier trip to San Jose I ran into a guy with a Jet Industries Ford Escort. He said it would go 50 miles. He showed be the batteries, I don’t remember how many golf cart 12 volt batteries were in the thing, but it wasn’t outrageous.
Having said all that, the electric car industry needs to fix the fire problem. One ship so far is sitting at the bottom of the ocean, an airport parking garage has been reduced to rubble etc. That has to stop.
And how many do you see on the highway – they are only good as a second car used for those short trips you mentioned
The only problem I have with a plug-in hybrid is you have to plug it in.
This requires the electrical grid to be enhanced at a large cost, if millions of plug-ins are in service.
A non-plug-in hybrid would be the best choice. It doesn’t require an electrical connection, which means it doesn’t advserely affect the electrical grid, and although plug-in hybrids can drive short distances without using gasoline, I’m not sure that actually saves any money considering the price of electricity now.
Been there done that. And yes old Priuses can make a wonderful hobby too. An after market has developed for batts mod etc. I had plans way back in the 70s for A vw bug elec conversion. I am also sorta a off grid apocalyptic enthusiast and like to experiment with how cheap I can live ( alone).
But, in the big scheme of things none of this EV transition scheme is anything but a marginal attempt to change economic and physical reality. It will not help and will probably hurt us due to the creation of false expectations in the populace.
a 100AH LiFePO4 battery weighs 24 lbs. A comparable SLA weighs 62. And that’s for barely over 1 KwH. You think the battery packs are heavy now? There’s a reason they came to be known as golf cart batteries.
I recall reading articles back in the 1980’s in Popular Science and other places where they described building electric cars using lead-acid batteries, and if memory serves, I think it was either 20 or 25 regular lead-acid batteries that would give a person about a 70-mile range.
I had considered building an electric vehicle at that time using a pickup truck, with the battery box being located below the pickup bed, between the frame rails.
But, I never got around to it. I really had no need for it, although a 70-mile range would have satisfied 90 percent of my transportation requirements. But then again, gasoline was cheap back then. 🙂
My friend’s wife has a plug-in hybrid which she mostly uses on her commute to work, charges it in the parking garage while at work, hardly ever uses any gasoline. Driving on the road into town from the highway I see about 10% Teslas.
There have been electric golf carts (and warehouse forklifts) since the 1950’s. Sometimes I drive for 2 hours in my ICE car and then spend 5 hours on an electric golf cart. So electric vehicles have had a active niche market for 70 years already….basically wherever the batteries can spend overnight on a charger and aren’t more than half a mile away from a charger or battery change.
Henry Ford dropped his Battery powered highway car a century ago due to battery life and weight. Still the same problem a century later…still a niche market, but now bigger due to people’s homes being further than walking distance from jobs and groceries.
Heck, there were a lot of electric delivery trucks in the large cities in the 1920’s. Typical daily runs were on the order of 20 to 40 miles, and they didn’t need the maintenance typical for gasoline engines of that era.
Yes, folks forget (or didn’t ever know) that EVs were in service before ICE vehicles.
If you ask them why early EV owners moved quickly to ICE when that arrived, they’ll say that it was comparative range limitations, but now EVs are so much better for travel range per charge.
A reasonable response to this is that ICE vehicles are also so much better at travel range per tank.
And the ICE energy loading is sooooo much faster.
A thing now nearly extinct in the UK is early door-to-door fresh milk deliveries. I witnessed it from the 1960’s.
It was done with milk-floats powered by a ginormous package of lead acid batteries. They just did local, constant stop-start, deliveries.
Of course it was also in the day of government control of the milk industry and heavy unionisation. Having the franchise for local milk delivery was a guaranteed pretty good (but not outrageous) income, according to reports I heard.
While it was probably good for the nation’s health, it was also, apocryphally, the source of plenty of illegitimate births sired by milkmen. Cue Benny Hill.
Could not use my Golf cart today 4 year old batteries and forgot to plug it in for about the one mile range on a full charge it now has. Eight hundred in gas would have take me a lot further and that not counting the cost of the electricity to charge it. Anyone honest with you know EV have the same problem.
I live in cattle country and there are two standard vehicles, a flatbed pickup and a regular size or larger truck. My F150 gets 20 mpg and will go about 400 miles on a tank of gas. I can load a cord of firewood, or 2,000 pounds of dirt, or a couple of dozen RR-ties for fence posts. Lastly, it is great if we want to have a tail-gate party. 🙂
Plus you can use your F150 to tow dead EVs to a charging point.
From what I’ve read, dead EVs can’t be towed. You have to use a flat bed to move them.
Google says the Tesla can’t be towed unless all four wheels are off the ground, with the vehicle sitting on dollies.
My question is: Does loading the vehicle onto a flatbed truck damage the vehicle, since the vehicle’s wheels are on the ground while getting it up on the truckbed?
What kind of damage does moving a depleted Tesla do with its wheels on the ground? Short distance Ok? Long distance not?
Who needs this kind of hassle? Not me. 🙂
Do EVs have the equivalent to a neutral gear. One that disconnects the wheels from the motor?
If not, that seems to be a design oversight.
Battery Electric Vehicles were here to stay when my great-grandmother owned one about 110 years ago. They were relegated to their natural roles of warehouse fork lifts and golf carts after Boss Kettering invented and Cadillac popularized the starter motor.
The current fad will fade and BEVs will return to their base line when warmunism is replaced by the next political fad.
Get in line.
I’ve been seeing electric cars since the 1960’s. They have always been around. Heck, most of the first cars were electric.
What will happen is that once the government stops mandating/subsidizing them, they will go back to being niche jobs. Mostly conversion kits for those who have more money than sense.
Speaking of conversion kits, I watch the Motor Trend channel and about a year ago some people on the channel started talking about converting their internal-combustion-engined hotrods and classic cars into electric vehicles.
But I haven’t heard hardly anything this year about converting regular cars into electric cars. I see one segment scheduled where this is going to be done, but that’s it.
The interest seems to be fading. Or maybe I just don’t watch the channel enough, but I do see the advertisements for the different shows and there is hardly a mention of electric vehicles now.
The internal combustion engine is alive and well. They can easily put out as much horsepower as an electric car engine.
Maybe I’m Old School, but an electric motor in a 1955 Chevy feels like a violation of nature. I want to hear the rumble of that 700hp ICE motor. You won’t get that out of an electric motor. You’ll have to add a sound system to your electric hotrod! Definitely against Nature! 🙂
They’re actually doing about one car cargo ship fire a year for the last 3-4. You usually don’t hear too much about them. Not all go down, but the damage is usually impressive.
The story of the Fremantle Highway is interesting. In its salvage, many surviving ICE cars were simply driven off in port, while EVs were removed by crane, one EV catching on fire as it was removed from the cargo hold.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/salvage-completed-on-fire-damaged-car-carrier-fremantle-highway
Even hybrids are only good as a second car. My BIL and nephew have them, and I’ve been keeping an eye on them. Repairs and even maintenance are expensive and entail long shop times. They don’t appear very reliable.
So ironically the virtue signaller nephew bought a “beater” ICE to use when his hybrid isn’t available. And the BIL uses his ICE pickup truck now mostly, so as not to risk his hybrid going into the shop yet again.
So you could say my plans to buy a hybrid have been put on ice.
I suspect the small motors that are used to power the electric generator haven’t had the kind of long term development and refinement that ICEs have.
“2021 Hybrid Escape gets ~40 mpg.”
Down hill with the wind at your back. I am not a big believer in testimonials.
I had an old PU truck that got 40 mpg. When I parked it in the drive way I would like the keys in it. When my neighbor with hybrid used it to do PU things he would bring it back with a full tank.
The last new car I bought was a 2007 Corolla because that is what my wife wanted. I did my my due diligence. We even test drove a Pious.
There are many examples of cars that are more expensive but you will save on fuel cost. I have never fond by doing calculation that I will save on total costs.
My son is still driving the Corolla as his only car. Does the higher cost of the Pious including the battery represent increased environmental impact?
My 1984 ICE Chev Nova(Toyota Crolla) would do 34 MPG with a carburetor. It Cost me about $9000 to buy. and it went 405,000 miles. I will challenge any EV to match its CO2 foot print. They can’t its range on a ten gallon tank was about 320 miles. That was 1980 tech, I look at where we are today and want to heave. Fuel injected Corollas don’t do much better what is going on? Oh by the way that car could travel in minus fifteen to forty below weather without any problems(of course it would not warm up idling at those temps), until you hit the rock in the middle of paved road(sometime a snow chunk is not what is seems.) Well that another story.
“Fuel injected Corollas don’t do much better what is going on?”
New Corollas are bigger and heavier. A common trend.
I’ve recently completed a world tour and was very surprised at how few EVs I saw anywhere … especially in NYC and SF where I’d have thought there would have been many.
“I think I want a plug-in hybrid. My internet investigation shows that they will run on battery power for 10-20 miles or more before the engine starts. That means for my every day driving I wouldn’t use any gasoline.”
I’m not familiar with the operation of plug-in hybrids. I assume they have a smaller battery than the full electric car, so I assume it takes less time to charge one up.
What’s the difference in charging time between a plug-in hybrid and a regular electric car?
I guess any favorable mention of electric cars gets knee-jerk downvotes here. That’s the only explanation I can come up with for why you got all those down votes. I don’t think your post deserved any downvotes, whether one likes EV’s or not. All you did was explain your personal situation.
2022
Britishvolt: Electric car battery plant gets millions in funding… BBC
2023
Britishvolt: UK battery start-up collapses into administration…BBC
Green jobs
Electric arc furnaces at Port Talbot could result in 3,000 jobs losses at the steelworks and numerous down stream Tata operations… MSM
Etc
quote:“”Britishvolt: UK battery start-up collapses into administration…
…..and ‘Recharge Industries’, an Australian outfit that bought Britishvolt has now stopped paying wages to the workers..
BBC quote:“The takeover has not gone smoothly, with some £2.5m of the purchase price still unpaid months after it was due.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67312309
They haven’t been paid for months
I wondered how long that would last. It was a losing proposition to start with and 100% predicated on there being a revolution in battery design just around the corner. Wishful thinking financial policies again.
One should never underestimate the ability of British politicians to back losers with shedloads of taxpayers’s money.
Let me fix that for you “One should never underestimate the ability of
Britishpoliticians to back losers with shedloads of taxpayers’s money.”Watch them squirm and beg…
story tip
Siemens Energy Moves for State Backing in Wind Debacle (yahoo.com)
Who bails out the state?
The taxpayer
Who else?
On rare occasions, the government sells off land in order to bail itself out.
See Louisiana purchase and Seward’s folly. Both unpopular at the time but turned out to be very profitable for the US.
The massive FedGov debt accumulating in the U.S.A. is not sustainable. Already, the interest alone is nearly as large as the Defence Department budget. Modern Monetary Theory is a load of bovine effluent, and not even the most inebriated Congress critters can overcome real world economics.
I have been into just about everything “ alternative” at one time or another in my life since the 1970s. Alternative energy ( woodstove fire place and chimney business currently for 30 plus years), also alternative organic farming, wind and solar for small boats, small off grid home design, all kinds of small car and truck modification projects MG midget engine swaps etc etc etc.
But in the end where do I live and what do I drive mainly in the practical reality of everyday life and business? Chevy extended one ton express vans for work and some cheap old ice car econobox beaters currently. I always buy older used everything.My houses have no solar -heat pump with woodstove supplemental heat.( mid Atlantic US region.) And I don’t have time for even a small garden anymore and got tired of the wild life eating all my hard work anyway. So I get all my food from the grocery store right now.
EVs are ok in cities, but elsewhere they are useless, such as for camping, long trips, hauling things, driver and 3 passengers, driving in cold weather on snowy roads.
My friend parks her EV in the barn, in Vermont, because she could not make it up hill in winter to get to work. She is a physician at the VA.
EVs are not the only bust.
Large-scale solar system pricing/installed MW has gone up at least 45%, since 2020
Offshore wind system pricing/installed MW has gone up at least 55%, since 2020
Large-scale battery systems/installed MW/MWh has gone up at least 50%, since 2020
US/UK 66,000 MW OF OFFSHORE WIND BY 2030; AN EXPENSIVE FANTASY
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/biden-30-000-mw-of-offshore-wind-systems-by-2030-a-total-fantasy
The Net-Zero by 2050 Ship Starting to Sink
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-net-zero-by-2050-ship-starting-to-sink
World’s Largest Offshore Wind System Developer Abandons Two Major US Projects as Wind Bust Continues
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/world-s-largest-offshore-wind-system-developer-abandons-two-major
BATTERY SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS, OPERATING COSTS, ENERGY LOSSES, AND AGING
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital-costs-losses-and-aging
Experts Warn German Economic Decline Certain… “We’ll Soon Be Living In Trees Again”
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/experts-warn-german-economic-decline-certain-we-ll-soon-be-living
This time it will come true. Just believe.
What Climate Alarmist German politicians have done to Germany is a crime.
The Climate Alarmist German politicians are the problem. Get rid of them to solve the problem. Vote some people with some common sense into office instead.
I know it is easier said than done, but that is the only alternative if you don’t want your economy and way of life to crash and burn.
Crashing and Burning is the worst way for change to come. Do something before that happens or suffer the consequences.
The problem is that cities are where residents are least likely to have off street parking, so their ability to recharge electrics is very limited.
True, but entering a city with an EV will be discouraged with a high fee, if you are not a resident
People in apartment houses, will use mass transit trains and EV busses and EV taxis, and EV bicycles.
Charging EVs in apartment building garages would triple the electric load of each building, especially with electric HPs and electric ovens.
Things would blow up all over the place.
I hope they will blow up first in the apartment buildings with a lot of GW scare-mongers
EVs have already “caught on” with the urban dwellers and virtue signalers, but that’s it. Many of those that would want to virtue signal with an EV can’t for logistics reasons …. distances traveled, lack of garage or dedicated charging station, lack of public charging stations, and cost. Right now the car manufacturers are kicking themselves in the ass for buying the narrative that cars are all going EV. They were convinced by the same governments that are pushing AGW. The notion that the government will be able to mandate no fossil use, especially for personal transportation, is a fool’s play.
Virtue comes with a price tag
The question is can you afford it?
EV insurance is about 3 to 4 times more than for gasoline.
Any insurance usually excludes battery replacement.
It isn’t actually a global delusion but a Western delusion. The leaders of the 75% of the world’s population that don’t live comfortably in developed Western economies have entirely different priorities.
Growth is their priority.
Yes, it’s the only way that they will drag billions out of poverty.
Here’s a good example of what is facing new EV owners that don’t have home charging ……..
https://youtu.be/Vbd2CKQiwN4
https://youtu.be/RMxRDTfzgpU?si=lD9npWBxrIfFvtpC
No they don’t. The manufacturers won’t keep making EVs if they’re not selling. Ford has already waived the white flag prompted by their investment losses with EVs. Fossil fuel use is so ubiquitous and cheap that it will take a proven energy source that is affordable and as easy to access as fossil fuels before the masses adopt. Nuclear energy would help their cause and I see that becoming the next ‘renewable energy’ cause.
Isn’t the overlap between the ‘we must use renewables’ crowd and the ‘we mustn’t use nuclear’ crowd really high though?
Never is a long time
Well they’ve had several goes at it so far and each go has failed for the same reason – the batteries used are not fit for the required purpose. Unless or until they solve that problem then no, they will never catch on.
Toyota might have something up their
sleevewheel-arch.I guess that there is a chance that this time, they finally aren’t just blowing smoke.
OK, OK, it’s not never, merely 100,000 years.
I hope that once green “energy” starts to collapse, it goes faster and faster and the house of cards all comes down suddenly! YEE-HA! As a mech engineer I knew it was not sustainable.
I look forward to the day they start taking down those ghastly windmills and not replacing them.
Windmills are a blight on the landscape.
I was trying to find the physical dimensions rather than weight of a vehicle battery because it is one of the main drivers for the dimensions of an EV. I came across this.
https://www.buyacar.co.uk/advice/nissan-leaf-batteries/
This paragraph stood out.
both age and mileage impact how quickly a battery loses capacity. The headline findings suggested that after 100,000 miles a Nissan Leaf battery pack (either the 24kWh or 30kWh) would typically have just over 60% of its original capacity. Plug In America generates information from actual owners so it is important to remember that people can be all too eager to crack out the rose-tinted glasses. However, the results marry up with the general consensus that a battery pack should last between 10 and 20 years before needing to be replaced.
I have personal knowledge, my son, of a 30 year old diesel with original engine 144k miles still doing 50+mpg. Any well maintained ICE will outlast the body it’s in. The engine in a BEV may well do the same but a battery pack at 60% makes that immaterial in terms of life, a good engine and body scraped because it costs £10k to replace the battery is not really saving the planet.
“Today I went to the Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally along with my neighbour and his young kids.
As I have mentioned before, the whole area has been polluted with the Stockyard Hill Wind plantation, 51% Chinese owned and 49% Qatar owned.
I explained to the kids the purpose of these monstrosities and how they are meant to make electricity from wind.
Then both the five and six year old said to me, but how can they make electricity if there is no wind?
Tragically, this very profound point by young kids is missed or not understood by most of the woke morons who rule this country and their useful idiots.”
https://joannenova.com.au/2023/11/sunday-30/#comment-2711946
Smarter than a politician!
“Smarter than a politician!”
I’ll test my cat.
Auto
My German Shepard is smarter than me. He gets along with my wife famously.
“From the mouths of babes.” [No, not Paris Hilton; lots of pretty filthy stuff goes in and out of that mouth.]
I wrote an article in defence of plug-in hybrids for WUWT a few years ago. As commenters point out here, they are OK for city people. But if I had to buy an EV or hybrid, I would buy a non-plug-in hybrid, preferably diesel. I would pick one with a smallish battery, to reduce the fire risk. The fuel charges the battery while the ICE engine is running, and the battery powers the car while the ICE engine is not running. So they are actually 100% fuel powered. They have some very good efficiencies, so even though they are 100% fuel powered they can get better mileage than pure ICE’s.
A non-plug-in hybrid fills at a service station just like an ICE, its range is determined by its fuel tank size not its battery size, ie, range-wise it’s the same as an ICE. And if you keep saying it’s a hybrid, you can get away with people thinking it’s not an ICE.
In time, ICE car technology may improve to give them the same efficiencies, and Li-ion battery technology may improve to the point that there is no fire risk. ICEs may then start using the same batteries. IOW, non-plug-in hybrids and ICEs may morph into the exact same thing. So I won’t actually buy a non-plug-in hybrid yet, I’ll wait till they have all morphed. I wonder what they will call them then?
Toyota hybrids can easily switch back to safe NiMh modest batteries they’ve used in the past to avert fire risk as the weight tradeoff is minor compared to reasonable range BEV battery requirements. Not to mention every BEV battery is costing the same fuel savings as 8 Toyota hybrids in the affordable hands of the masses as current BEV production exhausts the well off demand. Run with what you have rather than future fantasies as Toyota hybrid order books run out to 2 years. Duh!
“NiMh batteries”
I believe Toyota still offers models with these batteries.
If I were going to by a hybrid, it would be one using NiMh batteries. They are a viable option to lithium batteries.
One of my adjacent neighbors bought a new, loaded 2022 Ford F150 earlier this year. I’ll give it a few more months before I ask about his experiences with it.
Why not give these another try?
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/wind-wagons/12239
Here’s the rub in Oz as the Federal Treasurer lambasts the high immigration States for their infrastructure spending and red ink-
Jim Chalmers calls for infrastructure project cuts to fight inflation (msn.com)
Why is he doing that? Well he knows Federal Labor have made a big promise with renewables and their great transmissioning rollout and the States are crowding out the scarce resources he needs to do that with big announcements in the next Federal Budget. Basically you lot stop adding to inflation so we can do that. LOL.
In general I think wind, solar, and BEV are a bad Idea. I am qualified to review and calculations you might have if you disagree and point out the mistakes in the calculation.
Just for the record I am never wrong when it comes to calculation signed by me and have also corrected a lot of calculations.
However, I am not against wind, solar, and BEV. There may be specific cases where they are good ideas.
If politicians mandate wind, solar, and BEV where they are terrible ideas that will result in total collapse.
A large part of the value of the US $$ is a combination of economic and military might. Money is useless unless you have the means to keep it safe.
The focus is on replacing existing fossil fuel/nuclear generation, not on how will the 3x in crease in demand be generated, transmitted and distributed because of transition from motor fuels and natural gas for heat, cooking and industry.
There is no consideration of the capital, labour, construction, manufacture, mining of raw materials and transportation required over the next 20 years to meet the fantasy Net Zero by 2050. Where will it come from?