Gas-Powered Cars Will Vanish in 8 Years, Big Oil Will Collapse: Stanford Study
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LoL liberal-leftie nutcase. Go smoke some weed. Oil will be here for next 100 year, because it is the most cost efficient cheapest energy source! My prediction within the next 5 year Tesla will go bankrupt and Elon Musk will resign in disgrace. And Elon Musk will become bankrupt and be homeless and then vanished within the next 8 year!
What's the impact to the environment from all the old batteries that would have to be discarded from these electric cars?
The other one,...is this BS to stop the engine if not moving for X time,...and then has to restart.
Have any of these "experts" though of how that effects the life cycle of a LEAD ACID battery.
I saw a picture of an electric car parked on the street in China. The owner ran an extension cord from his apartment on the 7th floor through the air down to his car.
I skipped the 64 and went from my VIC-20 straight to the Amiga. It's an over-reach to say anything humans do will disappear. There are still people fooling around with, and driving steam-powered cars. And searching for used cars that don't have distracting back-up cameras and touchscreen infotainment modules. Or ordering stick-shifts from the factory if that's the only way to get them.
As the Tesla Crash proved, introducing self-drive to the real world where Stupid Human Tricks are the general rule is bound to be a lot tougher and take a lot longer than the dreamers imagine. Will smartphones for pedestrians be banned? Will the self-drive manufacturers be required to buy back the primitive U-drives? Still, the idea has merit:
Oh, BTW Googling Amiga turns up a one-day old review of a brand-new model on ArsTechnica. No longer connected to long-gone Commodore that Jack Tramiel started in Toronto, but still an Amiga.
Whether cars are powered by electricity or by gasoline, you need something that provides you with power.
The electrical grid and the generating plants simply do not have the capacity to supply all the vehicles out there right now with electrical power. Hell, right now, it gets overloaded in the city of Toronto every summer when people turn their AC on. How are you going to provide enough juice to charge cars?
We would need a massive construction program to build the necesary infrastructure right from massive new generating plants to the transmission wires to the substations to the distribution nodes to the primary and secondary systems in the neighbourhoods to the wires coming into your house.
Newfoundland is currently building a new hydro electric dam and generating plant (Muskrat falls) and it is bankrupting the province. That's one plant.
Which begs the question, ok, what type of generating plants are you going to build?
1. Hydro = Hugely expensive with large environmental impacts and most of the best sites in North America have already been built.
2. Nuclear = YIKES, the potential for catastrophic failures is very real. Witness Fukushima and Chernobyl. Then there's the waste which remains hot for 100,000 years.
3. Natural Gas = emissions just as bad as gasoline.
4. Coal = dirty, pollution, emissions.
5. Alternative = Sun, wind, tide, etc. = Make me laugh.
Then there will be the cost of all this. Who's going to pay for all of that? (I already know the answer.)
I won't even get into the cost of building transmission lines and the "not in my backyard" issues that that would face.
The electrical grid and the generating plants simply do not have the capacity to supply all the vehicles out there right now with electrical power. Hell, right now, it gets overloaded in the city of Toronto every summer when people turn their AC on. How are you going to provide enough juice to charge cars?
We would need a massive construction program to build the necesary infrastructure right from massive new generating plants to the transmission wires to the substations to the distribution nodes to the primary and secondary systems in the neighbourhoods to the wires coming into your house.
Newfoundland is currently building a new hydro electric dam and generating plant (Muskrat falls) and it is bankrupting the province. That's one plant.
Which begs the question, ok, what type of generating plants are you going to build?
1. Hydro = Hugely expensive with large environmental impacts and most of the best sites in North America have already been built.
2. Nuclear = YIKES, the potential for catastrophic failures is very real. Witness Fukushima and Chernobyl. Then there's the waste which remains hot for 100,000 years.
3. Natural Gas = emissions just as bad as gasoline.
4. Coal = dirty, pollution, emissions.
5. Alternative = Sun, wind, tide, etc. = Make me laugh.
Then there will be the cost of all this. Who's going to pay for all of that? (I already know the answer.)
I won't even get into the cost of building transmission lines and the "not in my backyard" issues that that would face.
And the anti-media spreads it around as if it was as factual as …, oh I dunno, a wall from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
If you installed a 60 A 240 V charger you would get there much faster. That would be 14KW per hour.
Actually the grid is practically at idle at night. So it can take a TON more load during the evening then it takes now.
Oh, I don't agree with everything in the article. The timeline is one, but, generally speaking, human driven vehicles will be a thing of the past sooner rather than later. Same goes for the oil powered propulsion. Right now, we're just taking half steps because the technology for self driving and propulsion are still unavailable.I skipped the 64 and went from my VIC-20 straight to the Amiga. It's an over-reach to say anything humans do will disappear. There are still people fooling around with, and driving steam-powered cars. And searching for used cars that don't have distracting back-up cameras and touchscreen infotainment modules. Or ordering stick-shifts from the factory if that's the only way to get them.
As the Tesla Crash proved, introducing self-drive to the real world where Stupid Human Tricks are the general rule is bound to be a lot tougher and take a lot longer than the dreamers imagine. Will smartphones for pedestrians be banned? Will the self-drive manufacturers be required to buy back the primitive U-drives? Still, the idea has merit:
Oh, BTW Googling Amiga turns up a one-day old review of a brand-new model on ArsTechnica. No longer connected to long-gone Commodore that Jack Tramiel started in Toronto, but still an Amiga.
The author of the article is a moron. While I can see more automobiles going to battery power, there is no way big oil is going to collapse in 8 years. First there is no way Large trucks, trains and airplanes are going to electric in 8 years. Second this idiot must not realize that oil is in almost everyone of the products that we consume, most notably the millions of kilometers of roads that are paved in oil based products.
