![The Future Is Stupid [902x896 - 90KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/gFBRnm.jpg){kind=link}
And yet they're still more energy efficient. It comes from the efficiencies of scale. It's far more efficient for one giant power plant to burn fossil fuels to charge 1 million cars than it is to have 1 million little miniature power plants driving around. Don't believe it? Why don't we have a little power plant next to each home rather than large ones and all the distribution problems that come with it?
It's about stamping out freedom, when/if the electric grid goes down, every one of those electric devices is rendered a giant paper weight. Gasoline/diesel keeps engines running regardless of infrastructure. If you can find some petrol you can start your engine. Much different than trusting/hoping the electrical grid stays up and constant in the coming years.
It's about stamping out freedom, when/if the electric grid goes down, every one of those electric devices is rendered a giant paper weight. Gasoline/diesel keeps engines running regardless of infrastructure.
Oh yeah? How do you plan to get that gasoline/Diesel out of the underground tank and into your car without electricity? With a generator? I can use solar OR a generator to charge my car and STILL get as good a mileage as a Civic. One gallon of gas will run my Honda Eu2000i long enough to give me about 32-35 miles of range on one gallon.
Using wood. You can run any spark plug based car off of wood.
You're stupidity is showing. Hand pumps worked to pull water out of the ground for a thousand years. Gasoline is a liquid. Here's your sign, it reads "I was a big idiot on the internet today".
Get a hybrid plug in problem solved Toyota makes it
Anyone can make electricity at home with some wire and magnets, and effort.
Who's going to drill for oil at home, then refine it?
Don't need to drill for oil, you can use wood to run a spark plug based car.
This
It's not about efficiency of scale. It has to do with electrical power itself. Electricity is generated whether it is consumed or not. It's only more efficient to generate power and distribute it to many consumers simultaneously so there is a steady load. When I run my generator, it burns a minimum amount of fuel constantly even when there is no electrical load. The bigger the generator, the more fuel it uses even under a no load situation. A typical 20K generator burns about 2 gallons of propane under 0 to 1/2 load. At full load, it will burn up to 4 gallons per hour. I will typically start my generator and let it run for 30 minutes and shut it down. This is long enough to charge my well, refrigerator, and heating system for several hours.
Unfortunately, the "green" industry is good at half truths. They forget about the true cost of energy. Also solar panels do not work when the power grid goes down. People who own them were not told that little secret.
I agree that electric motors are more efficient than petrol motors. But considering how the electricity is generated needs to considered. If your power is hydroelectric, then great! That's as good as it gets.
I can't understand how electric vehicles are more cost efficient than gas, based on the cost per mile. When you look at the cost of heating, electric is way more expensive than oil or natural gas. Wouldn't generating heat with electricity be about as efficient you can get?
Light a fire 100% conversion to heat energy.
Controlled explosion, 20% conversion to mechanical energy.
You are correct that electric heating is 100% energy efficient in the sense that all the incoming electric energy is converted to heat. However, most electricity is produced from coal, gas, or oil generators that convert only about 30% of the fuel's energy into electricity. Because of generation and transmission losses, electric heat is more expensive than natural gas, propane, and oil.
If the electric source is hydro-electric, then what you really have is solar energy. Don't forget hydro-electric starts with the sun evaporating water.
It is 100% efficient if you only consider the conversion of electrical energy to heat. When you consider the cost and/or the generating and distributing efficiencies I don't think it even comes close to natural gas.
Also solar panels do not work when the power grid goes down.
Why
The power grid acts as the load for the solar panels. When it goes off line, the solar panels have nowhere to send their power, so they shut down too. Of course, the design of your particular installation could be changed to work using the proper inverters and/or batteries, but that would raise the cost of your already expensive system.
Also solar panels do not work when the power grid goes down. People who own them were not told that little secret.
Sure they do if your inverters support it. It's just that most people's systems aren't set up that way.
I agree that electric motors are more efficient than petrol motors. But considering how the electricity is generated needs to considered. If your power is hydroelectric, then great! That's as good as it gets.
It's even better cost-wise when you have solar. You're literally charging for free since that power is a sunk cost.
Yeah no.
That's the same kind of idiot leftist thinking that argues that we should turn pastures into fields.
Economies of scale? A trite misapplied theoretical economics concept doesn't just win the argument.
Not all resources are equal. Not all infrastructure is equal. It's not all interchangeable. Energy storage isn't equal.
It's about energy gained versus energy expended.
There's a reason why people don't use coal at home. There's a reason why people DO use gasoline at home. There's a reason why phones aren't powered by capacitors. There's a reason why LEDs were used on VCRs and not lamps. There's a reason why radio controlled cars are electric and why real cars aren't.
You're assuming that people have done what they've done because they were ignorant. Or because they were greedy. Leftists always assume they know better even though never know anything about what they bitching about.
Batteries are fucking awful. Anyone who's ever used an electric drill for more than 5 minutes knows this. Batteries are unreliable, heavy, toxic, expensive, and inefficient.
There's a reason why guns are chemically powered, not electric. Rail guns are not ever going to replace firearms.
Not all sources of energy are interchangeable.
Rail guns are not ever going to replace firearms.
Not any time soon, eventually maybe.
You're assuming that people have done what they've done because they were ignorant. Or because they were greedy.
You're projecting. People didn't do electric cars first because they didn't have lithium battery technology, strong permanent magnet motors, and the computers necessary to manage the charge state. Now that we do, they are going to replace gasoline in a large portion of the market whether you like it or not. Economics wins over feelings every time.
Batteries are fucking awful. Anyone who's ever used an electric drill for more than 5 minutes knows this. Batteries are unreliable, heavy, toxic, expensive, and inefficient.
The only people who "know" this are people who have no idea what they're talking about. They used shitty NiCd batteries 40 years ago and figured that's how things still are. My cordless drill has enough torque that it's stronger than any person's ohe-handed grip. You can only keep it from torquing out of your hands by using both, with one at the base of the handle. My cordless electric hedge clippers cut effortlessly through 1-inch branches and it runs enough for me to only need to charge it after 3 or 4 yard days. The cordless leaf blower is better than the corded blower, and lighter. The oldest battery car in the household fleet has over 140,000 miles on it with the original battery and it's still fine. The pickup is stronger than any typical 4 or 6-cylinder sedan out there.
There's no possible way to slice batteries today as sucking. They have a lower total cost of ownership, lower maintenance, lower operating cost, and lower lifetime pollution. If you buy crap, it will work like crap. That doesn't mean everything is crap.
There's a reason why guns are chemically powered, not electric.
Mainly because magnetic projectiles are not nearly as dense as lead, nor do they offer explosive expansion like lead.
they are going to replace gasoline in a large portion of the market whether you like it or not. Economics wins over feelings every time.
Not because EVs will be cheaper, the more people demanding EVs, there will be more increase in demand for lithium batteries. The batteries will always be expensive. Batteries will have to be mined until nearly all cars are electric.
Oil is an artificially controlled market, oil should be as cheap as water. It is far easier to drill for oil than it is to mine battery materials.
We will be shoved into EVs as every EV will be self driving, they want to kill gas cars as many are not self driving. Now if you are against the state or didn't have your vax, no self driving mobility for you Goyim. It comes down to control.
railgun
You are going to need capacitors to fire a rail gun, only a capacitor is capable of discharging quick enough and large enough amperage, your rail gun system is going to be large. Whereas a bullet is tiny, all that energy in 7.62x51mm.
The power source in a normal gun is in the bullet, the power source in the rail gun is external and very large.
Not all resources are equal.
Your wonderful hedge clippers won't be working in ten years. My family has diesel engines from 1969 that are still being used. Internal combustion is less complicated, easier to maintain, less fragile, and more efficient.
I actually know what I'm talking about. It is called experience. While you are a very good example of an obedient NPC.
Economics, huh? I guess that's why government is mandating this shit, right? Because it is the inevitable wave of the future?
The fact is that nothing is better at storing energy than petroleum. Weight, speed of refueling, complexity, fragility... Nothing is better.
As someone actually involved in a business based on vehicles, I know from experience that you are simply fucking wrong. Electric vehicles are inferior. Harder to maintain. Harder to repair. More fragile. Less distance. Less reliable. They require a larger more complex, expensive, and fragile infrastructure. I KNOW this is the indisputable truth because we've built refueling stations for our vehicles. We can build a refueling station that is off the grid and it goes years without needing maintenance or repairs. No electric recharging station could ever mimic this fact. NEVER.
I can refuel a semi in 15 minutes and haul several tons of material at 75 mph several hundred miles. That's not possible with electric. It is simply fucking impossible. Chemical energy and electrical energy are not interchangeable nor equivalent.
Not all energy sources are equivalent nor interchangeable. Get this through your skull.
Fuck, I hate you millennials. You guys simply cannot believe that anyone actually knows more than you, because you read Wikipedia and watch TED.
Also your comment about guns is beyond stupid. Fuck me.
You know, you really shouldn't be trying to discuss anything about anything. Other equally ignorant people might see your comments and get infected.
I've spent more time working on and building the stuff we're talking about than you've probably spent breathing air. Your couple of hours reading about this shit does not give you the right to have a fucking opinion.
Come back to me when you have spent 30 years working with this stuff. Come back to me after driving truck. Come back after building electric RC cars for 15 years. Come back after you have paid millions in invoices for vehicle repair and maintenance. Come back after using hand tools for 40 years.
The truth is that electronics are for toys, not serious work.
Tell that to northern winters.
(post is archived)