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Fighting climate change & end of oil colliding

kathydixon

kathydixon

 
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What so many people fail to realize is that there are two (2) dynamics going on here which on the surface seem unrelated which is our biggest mistake

World Oil Reserves
1,650,585,140,000 barrels
47 years of oil left
(at current consumption levels)
World Oil Statistics - Worldometer (worldometers.info)

This means, at current consumption all the known oil reserves will be sucked up and burned in 47 years.
Which means that the world’s major energy source will not be able to meet demand in 20+/- years.

If the world acts now to gradually switch from oil to renewables the transition will a peaceful one. If we do not do this, a world global fight will occur to control what oil is left. This will lead to WW3 which in itself will burn up what is left.

The term Armageddon comes to mind.
used in a generic sense to refer to any end of the world scenario.
Armageddon - Wikipedia

This may not concern you because you will not be around then; but your grandchildren will !!

Fighting climate change and discovering new renewable energy sources are fighting to achieve the same thing. The survival of the human race.
 
Science, science, science. It's all about understanding God's creation and how it works. Tesla thinks they can slash the price of batteries in half by 2022. Solar cell and wind turbine efficiency is going up. Renewable is becoming more economically viable, and that removes probably the #1 key objection from the anti-renewable crowd. The Teslas even outperform gas cars, so even a pure speed daemon would be right to prefer an EV. They're starting to have to ban EV's from auto racing, just to keep it a fair race.
 
1pet2_9 said:
Science, science, science. It's all about understanding God's creation and how it works. Tesla thinks they can slash the price of batteries in half by 2022. Solar cell and wind turbine efficiency is going up. Renewable is becoming more economically viable, and that removes probably the #1 key objection from the anti-renewable crowd. The Teslas even outperform gas cars, so even a pure speed daemon would be right to prefer an EV. They're starting to have to ban EV's from auto racing, just to keep it a fair race.
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Tesla is losing the rat race .
https://nypost.com/2021/07/11/rodents-chow-down-on-teslas-causing-thousands-in-damage/

So I buy a Tesla and then I can't fully charge it because of a software update that I did not want ?

https://www.businessinsider.com/elo...hrottling-case-lawsuit-settlement-2021-7?op=1
 
Which country do you believe is ahead of all others in the energy future?

China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020
China intends to spend more than $360 billion through 2020 on renewable power sources like solar and wind, the government’s energy agency said on Thursday.

The country’s National Energy Administration laid out a plan to dominate one of the world’s fastest-growing industries

The agency said in a statement that China would create more than 13 million jobs in the renewable energy sector by 2020, curb the growth of greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming and reduce the amount of soot that in recent days has blanketed Beijing and other Chinese cities in a noxious cloud of smog.

China surpassed the United States a decade ago as the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, and now discharges about twice as much. For years, its oil and coal industries prospered under powerful political patrons and the growth-above-anything mantra of the ruling Communist Party.
www.nytimes.com

China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020 (Published 2017)

China’s announcement was a bold claim on leadership in the renewable energy industry, where Chinese companies are already among the world’s dominant players.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

2017 China Electric Car Sales Blow World Out Of The Water — BAIC EC-Series Is A Superstar

The rise and rise of the Chinese plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market is unstoppable, with yet another record performance in December. A total of 102,000 new passenger PEVs were registered last month, up 130% year over year. Yes, that was just December, and it pulled the year-to-date count to over 600,000 units, up 71% compared to 2016.

As consequence of this rapid growth, in December, the PEV share hit a record 3.3% market share of the entire Chinese auto market, while the entire 2017 PEV market share ended at 2.1%. That’s firmly ahead of last year’s score (1.5%) and above the USA (1.2%) and Europe (~1.9%).

The Chinese PEV market represented roughly half of the 1.2 million plug-ins sold worldwide in 2017, while Chinese carmakers made 47% of all PEVs sold last year.

2017 China Electric Car Sales Blow World Out Of The Water — BAIC EC-Series Is A Superstar - CleanTechnica

The rise and rise of the Chinese plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) market is unstoppable, with yet another record performance in December. A total of 102,000 new passenger PEVs were registered last month, up 130% year over year. Yes, that was just December, and it pulled the year-to-date count to...
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Our future at being the world’s great leader is coming to an end. Soon we, i.e. the us will fall into the category of a third world economy if we do not wake up soooon!
 
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1pet2_9 said:
Nimbus 2000's are of the devil.
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This old guy had to search to see what a Nimbus 2000 was :lol .

What do you think about hybrid vehicles ? Ford is coming out with a Maverick truck/utility vehicle this summer ,I kind of like what I have seen so far .
 
hawkman said:
This old guy had to search to see what a Nimbus 2000 was :lol .

What do you think about hybrid vehicles ? Ford is coming out with a Maverick truck/utility vehicle this summer ,I kind of like what I have seen so far .
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I have mixed feelings about hybrids. They seem to be trying to be all things to all people. A lot of the benefits of even going EV only come when you are fully EV--such as no alternator, no combustible fuel tank, you can put groceries under your hood. And then people look at hybrids and begin to think EV's are not all that. However, we have to realistic about being in a transitional period (at best): we don't have battery charging/exchange stations on the highway everywhere, like we have gas stations. Whoever can pull off a successful business model with that is going to be filthy rich.
 
1pet2_9 said:
I have mixed feelings about hybrids. They seem to be trying to be all things to all people. A lot of the benefits of even going EV only come when you are fully EV--such as no alternator, no combustible fuel tank, you can put groceries under your hood. And then people look at hybrids and begin to think EV's are not all that. However, we have to realistic about being in a transitional period (at best): we don't have battery charging/exchange stations on the highway everywhere, like we have gas stations. Whoever can pull off a successful business model with that is going to be filthy rich.
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I once had an accident and totaled a Chevy Chevette that I hit with the side of my 73 Chevy truck , it hit right on my gas tank going about 50 mph . No problems , just had to bend out truck bed back out to where I could get the filler neck to work on gas tank again . I will have to say one advantage of EV would be no under the hood oil leaks that could cause a fire , I have seen a few of those .

If you buy the new Maverick pu/utility you will have a whole bed to fill up with groceries but you may need a bank loan before you can do that :lol .

How would an exchange station work with an EV ?
 
How would an exchange station work with an EV ?
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The battery needs to be engineered to easily attach/detach, and people need to feel like they are not married to "their" battery. Lithium polymer batteries are much lighter (that's why you see them in remote-control airplanes), so if we can get those to work in EV's, then we won't be spending electricity hauling around 1300-pound batteries all the time. The 4.5-hour charge times and the heavy batteries are serious barriers to getting broader acceptance of EV's. If charge time was half an hour, then that's easy: go to a restaurant at a truck stop. If the battery was 60 pounds, that's easy: pop it out of your hood, pay some money, and put in a new one. For that matter, if we had efficient solar cells, then that is even easier: drive on a sunny day, and don't stop at all.
 
1pet2_9 said:
The battery needs to be engineered to easily attach/detach, and people need to feel like they are not married to "their" battery. Lithium polymer batteries are much lighter (that's why you see them in remote-control airplanes), so if we can get those to work in EV's, then we won't be spending electricity hauling around 1300-pound batteries all the time. The 4.5-hour charge times and the heavy batteries are serious barriers to getting broader acceptance of EV's. If charge time was half an hour, then that's easy: go to a restaurant at a truck stop. If the battery was 60 pounds, that's easy: pop it out of your hood, pay some money, and put in a new one. For that matter, if we had efficient solar cells, then that is even easier: drive on a sunny day, and don't stop at all.
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So we are no where close yet to an exchange working . Even at 60 pounds , are you picking up that much weight and installing it in the car ?

I thought our groceries were going under the hood ? :shrug
 
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Technology will be the way out, if there is one. The advent of fracking (for all it's problems) greatly increased known oil reserves. But they are limited. We're drawing it out much, much faster that it forms.

So other sources will eventually be needed. I think we'll do all right.
 
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