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<blockquote data-quote="HiredHand" data-source="post: 3761392" data-attributes="member: 2469"><p>I don’t get the anti-electricity bias. I mean we aren’t lighting our homes with kerosene or oil lamps. Are we? Does your drill motor have a pull start? The computer you’re typing on is running on electricity. None of that stuff is crap. Some early cars experimented with running on electricity and had battery power. It’s just taken a long time for that to become safer and more viable. Big cities had trolley systems that ran off electricity. Why can’t a train, bus,car run off it, too. I can definitely remember my dad talking about windmills that stored electricity in big batteries for use later. </p><p></p><p>Electricity has propelled humanity forward along with fossil fuels and scientific advances. Our environment is a lot cleaner in many ways due to the shift to electricity. US cities used to be covered in black soot from coal fired factories. I think that might actually be happening in China today.</p><p></p><p>I don’t think there’s one size fits all solution to providing electricity to power the world. There doesn’t have to be a single source of power generation or storage to replace fossil fuels. We’ll also discover new materials and ways of storing and transporting electricity. They’re just hurdles and we seem to like a challenge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HiredHand, post: 3761392, member: 2469"] I don’t get the anti-electricity bias. I mean we aren’t lighting our homes with kerosene or oil lamps. Are we? Does your drill motor have a pull start? The computer you’re typing on is running on electricity. None of that stuff is crap. Some early cars experimented with running on electricity and had battery power. It’s just taken a long time for that to become safer and more viable. Big cities had trolley systems that ran off electricity. Why can’t a train, bus,car run off it, too. I can definitely remember my dad talking about windmills that stored electricity in big batteries for use later. Electricity has propelled humanity forward along with fossil fuels and scientific advances. Our environment is a lot cleaner in many ways due to the shift to electricity. US cities used to be covered in black soot from coal fired factories. I think that might actually be happening in China today. I don’t think there’s one size fits all solution to providing electricity to power the world. There doesn’t have to be a single source of power generation or storage to replace fossil fuels. We’ll also discover new materials and ways of storing and transporting electricity. They’re just hurdles and we seem to like a challenge. [/QUOTE]
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