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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.
I whole heartedly agree with you, as a man that has worked in the sticks for decades having electric motors power everything is the dumbest shit I might have ever heard.
You can't do real work for extended periods of time with electric motors. But you can work for weeks with a tank of diesel on a truck. Completely isolated from civilization. No matter how fanciful they think their ideas are, electric motors will never make the cut. Maybe in 100 years when/if battery technology catches up. But then again, where are we going to get the power to charge these batteries, It really is a circular leftist/millennial city boy argument.
Children acting like adults that have never actually worked a day in their lives.
You figured out that electricity doesn't work out so well somewhere where there isn't electricity. Congratulations!
I wonder if the railroads know how useless their Diesel locomotives really are? After all, those Diesel motors are only turning generators for electric traction motors. Too bad they aren't as wise as you two.
From the format of your sentences I can tell you're more than likely a double digit IQ. Good luck out there bud.
Internal combustion is less complicated
Ah ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Now THAT is retarded.
I can refuel a semi in 15 minutes and haul several tons of material at 75 mph several hundred miles.
Is that how you commute to work, in a semi hauling several tons of material? Because if it is you jumped into a conversation that is irrelevant to you (surprise). Right tool for the job and all that. Hard to understand for simpler minded people.
Fuck, I hate you millennials. You guys simply cannot believe that anyone actually knows more than you, because you read Wikipedia and watch TED.
I don't think you can be a millenial if you're over a half century old. You project way too much. It's really inhibiting your ability to learn. You've let yourself become outdated. Congratulations on becoming the stereotype about old people unable to learn or understand new technology. I don't believe you're actually that old, though. Your irrational hormone-driven anger betrays your lies. You're very likely in your twenties, as that's when idiots are at the peak of thinking they know everything and full of anger for no reason ... like a teenage girl.
Also your comment about guns is beyond stupid. Fuck me.
If you don't know that lead is dense and expands on impact, and that's why we use it for firearms, you will need to give some serious reconsideration to who is stupid in this conversation.
Yes, yes I'm 20 years old. You can tell by the way all my points are unique, and based on personal experience, and not from Wikipedia.
You honestly made me laugh. We are talking about energy sources (well I am anyway) and you think my mockery of your gun comment is about the density of lead?
Holy fuck. Lead's density doesn't hold a candle to you.
If you are in your 50's then you must be one of those boomers who was a prototype for the Millennials.
My arguments for how batteries don't work for trucks is just as applicable to cars.
Battery means literally "a group of things connected together."
Batteries are a battery of energy cells. Each cell is a limited use toxic waste container. Each cell, and each connection between cells must be working for the battery to work. Each connection reduces efficiency. Any problem with a cell causes problems for the battery.
Batteries are not really repairable. They are heavy. They are amazingly fragile.
The whole system is inefficient and fragile.
Let's compare this to combustion. A fuel tank doesn't have a shelf life like the battery. Fuel isn't fragile to bumps. Fuel is easily transportable. Fuel is relatively stable and non toxic compared to the stuff in energy cells. (Energy cells are filled with very caustic and toxic chemicals. That are also rare and expensive.) Batteries bleed their charge. Batteries decay physically.
Electric motors require lubrication. They attract dust. Cleaning and maintaining an electric motor is not like changing oil. You need caustic solvents. Yes, there are sealed motors, but you still need to maintain and clean them. They aren't maintenance free. Anyone who has ever rebuilt and cleaned up a box fan knows it's worse than changing oil in a car.
Then there's the speed controller. Fragile, not repairable, and inefficient. You know what a heat sink is, right? A heat sink is the huge metal fin set that's there to dissipate heat from the resistors. All this stuff fragile, inefficient and not repairable.
The summary is this: electric cars are more complicated than internal combustion. Electric cars are more fragile. They have all the basic parts of real cars, plus a bunch of additional parts.
Additionally, electric cars require greater infrastructure to operate. Thus more fragility.
The core of the vehicle, the bare bones version of an electric car is significantly more complicated than a bare bones real car. That you would argue this indicates either a level of dishonesty or ignorance that cannot be reasoned with.
If you are in your 50's then you must be one of those boomers who was a prototype for the Millennials.
You appear to be as confused about calendar years as you are about physics and electric motors. I'll let you figure out how old boomers are whenever your skills reach the point that such learning becomes possible.
hen there's the speed controller. Fragile, not repairable, and inefficient. You know what a heat sink is, right? A heat sink is the huge metal fin set that's there to dissipate heat from the resistors. All this stuff fragile, inefficient and not repairable.
And yet, somehow they're still less expensive to purchase and operate. Strange how something more prone to repairs has lower maintenance costs, and something more inefficient has less operating costs. It's almost like they defy the laws of supply and demand. Miracle engines they are, I guess.
They have all the basic parts of real cars, plus a bunch of additional parts.
LOL. I can't tell you how many times I've had to rebuild the heads on my electric motors. Those Tesla lifter rods suck. If you think those suck you should see how hard it is to replace the thrust bearings on a Chevy Bolt's crankshaft. It's like, "why did I even go electric when they have all the same parts?"
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