More EV fun stuff!!!!!

[SoonerP226]

Aluminum burns too, just not as spectacularly. Just ask the brits who used seagoing warships with aluminum superstructures in the Falkland Islands...

I dunno—mix it up with some iron oxide and it burns pretty spectacularly.

 

[Snattlerake]

Really nice of them to pile hay bales around it to contain the fire.

 

[Snattlerake]

Unless your podunk volunteer fire department carries aviation-grade foam fire suppressant, you can't put out a battery fire.

But that stuff is carcinogenic, according to the courts.

 

[Pstmstr]

I've got a battery operated mower, weedeater, and hedge trimmer this year. So far, haven't burned the neighborhood down. There's always hope.

 

[Raido Free America]

People tend to get carried away with anything new. That even includes me, but reality always sets in eventually! Usually about the time the government subsidies stop! remember home wind mills, Beanie Babies, Ostriches and Emus, wood chip stoves, street legal golf carts, and PET ROCKS? I don't even care if EV's work, or not. I simply can't imagine where all that extra power generating capacity is going to come from! We have brown outs in a many places in peak periods now, and if EV's catch on, and include over the road trucks, that will what, triple or quadruple, the demand for electricity? Sounds like a Nuclear Power Plant on every corner to me? Do tree huggers really want that?

 

[TANSTAAFL]

People tend to get carried away with anything new. That even includes me, but reality always sets in eventually! Usually about the time the government subsidies stop! remember home wind mills, Beanie Babies, Ostriches and Emus, wood chip stoves, street legal golf carts, and PET ROCKS? I don't even care if EV's work, or not. I simply can't imagine where all that extra power generating capacity is going to come from! We have brown outs in a many places in peak periods now, and if EV's catch on, and include over the road trucks, that will what, triple or quadruple, the demand for electricity? Sounds like a Nuclear Power Plant on every corner to me? Do tree huggers really want that?

No, but Fukushima was 12 years ago, memories are short. Germany, Japan, France all shut down nuclear programs as a result. Don't worry, they'll remember,

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

I rode my homemade Electric bicycle back to walmart and when i was turning into walmart off Garth Brooks blvd. There was a Tesla in front of me turning in.

Did you guys give each other the EV bonding high sign?...

 

[Chris Hayes]

No, but Fukushima was 12 years ago, memories are short. Germany, Japan, France all shut down nuclear programs as a result. Don't worry, they'll remember,

Germany has been tearing down wind farms to replace them with new nuke gens. They figured it out that wind just doesn't produce enough or reliably enough.

 

[TerryMiller]

A new EV battery building plant in Kansas will require a lot of coal and gas powered generators to have enough power to operate.

Making EV Batteries at Kansas Plant Means Extending Coal Fired Power Plant

"The $4 billion EV battery plant is being built in De Soto, a suburb of Kansas City and is expected to begin mass production of batteries by the end of March 2025.

Here’s the catch. The plant will require so much energy for its operations that a local coal-fired plant will be expanded and the life of the plant will be extended.

This massive EV battery factory will require enormous amounts of power. So much energy, in fact, that a coal-fired plant in Lawrence, one owned by Evergy, will be expanded and the life of the plant will be extended. The EV battery factor will require close to 250 megawatts of electricity.

The Kansas City Star reported that Evergy had original plans to shut down the coal-fired Unit 4 at the Lawrence Energy Center and do so later this year or early next year. But now the company, with 1.6 million customers in Kansas and Missouri, has moved to extend the life of the coal plant until 2023, then convert Unit 5 to gas to provide the power."

 

[Raido Free America]

Germany has been tearing down wind farms to replace them with new nuke gens. They figured it out that wind just doesn't produce enough or reliably enough.

They say Edison tried thousands of things trying to find an element that would actually hold up in the electric light, before he figured it out! I suspect they will figure out some other means of powering vehicles, or how to get around without damaging the environment, if they keep trying! If WARS escalate any more the survives will be WALKING , DIGGING UP GRUBS TO EAT WITH A SHARP STICK!! PROBLEM SOLVED?