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On the battery front they was a breakthrough recently in the speed at which energy can be extracted. We are doing alot of research world wide. I would like to see more but a lot is being done all over the place.
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50% of our nation's R&D power is invested in the military...
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06-09-2010, 06:54 PM | #44 |
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Leave it to the military to develop nuclear subs that are efficient, mobile and high tech as hell. Not to mention satellites which go on for decades without a drop of oil.
More efficient fuels, light alloys etc.
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They've had 20+ years to do that, and still haven't. Instead, they're coming up with un-manned drones and bunker busters.
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06-09-2010, 07:06 PM | #46 |
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Drones are one of the current cutting edge of technology
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ned-drone.html EdIT and maybe someone should add oil cleanup to cutting edge.
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06-09-2010, 10:59 PM | #47 |
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They aren't there yet.
Yeah...we keep hearing that "technology is coming". It's slow though. Fact is Electric is a bad bet. Take a look at the power capacities and consumption of even something as small as the Chevy Volt. Now look at the average daily power consumed by the average 4 person home. Now contrast that with an existing power grid that appears to struggle with just meeting home/facilities demand... You can't add cars to that without crippling electricity production and delivery. Whatever direction we take (when it's available and ready) it's going to be expensive. In the meantime...how many oil skimmers are there in the world? Follow up question...how many of them are operating in the Gulf? Unrelated question...was there a regulatory failure associated with BP's violations? If so WTF good are new regulations going to do?
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06-13-2010, 03:33 PM | #48 |
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I guess you haven't seen the film "Who Killed the Electric Car?" We were there and more. Hundreds of people had electric cars in California in the mid 90s through law, but the program was ultimately killed by a certain jealous industries.
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06-15-2010, 07:02 PM | #49 |
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If anyone was paying attention to the Detroit Auto show this year, there were a bunch of cool electric cars.
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Electric cars are retarded. The premise that they are more green is kind of . It doesn't seem to come from any sort of factual basis but more around the idea that what comes out of your socket is MAGIC.
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If the energy coming out of your socket is 'green' so is the energy going into the car, thus making it 'green'.
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Another point, is that I never hear people saying that it's cheaper to charge your car than to put gas in it.
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Too bad having electric cars doesn't change useful idiots minds about energy sources that actually produce large amounts of energy.
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Edit: The big problem with electric is that you're not taking a vacation with them. The problem with hybrids is that you're not using the battery power on vacation. If all anybody did with their car was drive around town electric cars would be bigger. A lot of Americans buy their cars with long distance driving in mind.
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If everyone stopped using electricity renewable energy just might work.
Otherwise all the renewable energy sources on the planet might power a football stadium for a season. Or a week, I would have to check.
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What if all this development brought prices down on these forms of renewable energy (mainly solar) to the point where it was affordable to power your own house / property? We wouldn't have to lie on the traditional grid (infact, the power company has to pay you for any excess power you produce).
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People were using solar power in the 70s. It has come a long way. I see solar panels everywhere. I would wager, if the government wasn't so bloated, corrupt, unable to balance a spreadsheet and generally just fucking worthless bureaucracy eroding our freedom... they could give us a 100 percent tax break on the expense of solar and alternative energy sources.
But they are bloated, corrupt, unable to balance a spreadsheet and generally just a fucking worthless bureaucracy eroding our freedom, so that's not going to happen. And if it did, they would only give it to the poor because to do otherwise would unfair and a social injustice.
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