Gas-Powered Cars Will Vanish in 8 Years, Big Oil Will Collapse: Stanford Study
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70% of electricity is produced by burning coal,...so anything is an improvement for that country.
Still doesn't release CO2. Nuclear power is going to be a major part of our response to global warming. The right doesn't like it because they're in denial about the problem and the left doesn't like it because "nuclear bad".
But if everyone would pull their heads out of their asses this is a way forward that doesn't involve crushing the economy.
Your comment should read "the U.K. will announce that the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles will be banned by 2040." It's not like you won't be able to drive a gas powered car in the UK after 2040. I also suspect they'll allow the sale and use of hybrids after 2040.
Besides, it's one thing to make this statement in 2017, but things may change as we get closer to 2040. Technology will drive the change.
Canada's CANDU reactors are reliable. We've been upgrading the facilities in Ontario.
I'm not questioning their reliability. I was talking about the number of countries that are not building new or eliminating their existing nuclear reactors entirely.
Following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, Germany has permanently shut down eight of its 17 reactors and pledged to close the rest by the end of 2022. Italy voted overwhelmingly to keep their country non-nuclear. Switzerland and Spain have banned the construction of new reactors. Japan’s prime minister has called for a dramatic reduction in Japan’s reliance on nuclear power. Taiwan’s president did the same.
As of 2016, countries including Australia, Austria, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, and Portugal have no nuclear power stations and remain opposed to nuclear power. Belgium, Germany, Spain and Switzerland are phasing-out nuclear power.
They can buy our reactors then.
What the world needs now is Fusion Power if they can make it work.
It was an electric car built by GM and Boeing that was being driven on the moon 46 years ago today.By the time oil runs out we'll be flying spaceships and conquering other planets to steal alien resources and shit.
You know its true!
(okay, so I been drinking a little tonight, but it sounds plausible right now)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xTGzesCsjs#t=07m04s
Apart from being kind of heavy to launch into space, an internal combustion engine might not have worked very well without air.
I heard from someone who sat at the first turn in Montreal that everyone noticed the squealing (and smoking) tires more without as much noise from the engines.
I've been looking at things like this as I slowly research the dream retirement boat. Thinking if solar keeps improving at some point panels(with a generator) may become viable to run an engine.
Still a fair bit off. By so am I.
I think that solar-powered dune buggy on the moon had the benefit of intense sunlight without any clouds. Good reminder.
I saw a bit of the Formula E race on TV.
Did you notice that when a driver pulled into his pit stop, he got into another, replica car that was fully charged? Two cars!
