Meade, by now the market place has spoken. The trend toward solar and wind is overwhelming. This doesn't mean that gas cars will be phased out overnight but the writing is on the wall.
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Karl I do hope you are correct, and the breakthroughs needed to fulfill the > dream of that article arrive tomorrow. Decades ago I learned the reason > that solar is doomed to a small percentage of our energy production: > physics. Per square meter, the amount of usable energy in sunlight is many > order of magnitudes less than what is needed for modern life. Ten minutes > at a gas pump can provide enough energy to carry my family in comfort and > safety for hundreds and hundreds of miles. Covering my roof with solar > panels will never provide all the energy that my heat pumps require to keep > my house climate comfortable. Perhaps someday we'll have sufficient power > plants (fossil fuel or nuclear) and sufficient distribution to deliver > power for businesses / homes / and transportation where needed, and someone > will invent a capacitor that fits in a car and holds the same amount of > energy as 16 or 18 gallons of fuel that can be fully charged in minutes, > but solar and wind are doomed to providing just a small portion of that. > > It really doesn't matter how elegant one part of the solution is (electric > cars are simple and durable) if you can't solve the whole equation. > > ------------- > Max > Charleston SC > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
