The Model T Ford revolutionised the way the world does business and life. A practical electric vehicle will do the same. It's just a matter of time.
Pollution will decline.
Noise pollution will decline.
Oil changes a thing of the past.
Oil deposits on roads and freeways will stop.
Storm water runoff/oceanic pollution will decrease.
Photovoltaic usage will increase.
Point of use will decrease transmission line construction.
This will happen. I just do not know when.
A mere 20 years ago, this forum could not exist.
How do you come to these conclusion? All pie-in-the-sky rose-colored glasses stuff. No one ever thinks about the unintended side effects, partly because we just don't know what they'll be yet.
When we talk about electric vehicles, they'll never come into their own until they have a 1000 mile range on a charge and can be completely recharged over night. How could you make a cross-country trip in a Tesla? Battery weight will have to go down by at least a factor and efficiency will have to go up by several factors. You just can't pour electrons into your car on the side of the road. Not saying it won't happen at some point, but it's not even in the foreseeable future.
As for hydrogen, sounds great and all, but let's talk about those side effects. Out here in the desert, are we really going to pour our precious drinking water into our cars? How stupid is that? On the coast, what would all the desalinization plants look like? Imagine driving in the Pacific NW at rush hour with half a million cars emitting water vapor. You would be swimming home.
Besides, what are we going to do with the oil that is naturally occurring? Just leave it there? Doesn't do the earth any good, right? It's a pollutant in its natural form. We don't eat it, we don't drink it. The only thing it's good for is energy.
Correct, I never knew that, but 20 years ago a visit through the Permian Basin on a drive from Ft. Worth to El Paso, confirmed the above, it was amazing the sites and smells of that land the oil and gas naturally seeps outta the ground, kinda like what I hear of Saudi, I imagine.....
as for water in the SW regions, for over 40 years now, it has been most obvious what to do, but for our .gov to ever think ahead is just not happening....so here I go.....
We here in north America need get our act together, and alleviate several national problems at once, build maybe a dozen nuclear power plants that serve a double purpose, to back up the grid in summer/winter when they are not busy doing this job.....
the Job IS.....from many pickup points along the Mississippi river flood plain, was up stream on the Missouri, Ohio, Miss, Ark, Trinity, and any other river that floods, we pump the water outta them and send it trans continental to the SW regions for irrigation and use, even storage use the Grand Canyon if we have to....seriously....so in spring time when they bitch about all the farm fertilizer being washed into the Gulf of Mexico and causing a alge bloom or what ever they bitch about.....all the surplus snow melt water if caught and sent west, no more New Orleans flooding, no more flooding out farms and town along the Miss river banks......SO all that nice fresh water is used where needed, spring time is when the grid is under less demand because of mild temps, so pumping energy is not taking away from the grid.....
I guess about a dozen 16' diameter pipes should do the job pretty well, if more needed, fine....just DO IT, DAMNIT!!! want to create jobs? and actually have a interstate highway type gigantic project? that's IT.....
screw the green weenies....
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