I saw that meme where some clown replaced the 30 amp fuse in his car with a live .22 long rifle cartridge. That was a disaster waiting to happen! This is a true story – mid 1970s. My neighbor bought his wife a new sleek red Trans Am, and really loved how fast it could
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I agree that there is a lot of bureaucracy in California. But it’s there for a reason – many reasons. I think Texas will eventually be the same way when their population continues to grow.
I have absolutely no respect whatsoever for people who claim that wind turbines chop up birds – they do not! The sea birds avoid offshore wind turbines. Wind turbines on land are installing surveillance cameras and when they spot a bird close to a wind turbine, that turbine is shut down. Furthermore, the oil spills
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Range Energy thinks it has the best answer, and it doesn’t require any retrofitting of tractors or engines, just a new trailer. Range figured that so many people have thought about electrifying the semi-truck tractor, but nobody has really focused on the trailer. This makes sense considering the trailer is just dead weight on most
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150 TIMES MORE MINING FOR GAS GUZZLERS!150 times more mining needed for ICE road vehicles than EVs. The amount of mineral resources needed for ICE (gasoline) powered road vehicles was 150 times greater in 2019 than what electric vehicles and battery energy storage will need… in 2040. – 2 billion tons: mining quantities needed for
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150 times more mining needed for ICE road vehicles than EVs. The amount of mineral resources needed for ICE (gasoline) powered road vehicles was 150 times greater in 2019 than what electric vehicles and battery energy storage will need… in 2040. – 2 billion tons: mining quantities needed for oil for road transport in 2019;
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The EU is going to prohibit new gas cars by 2035. But they question whether there will be enough batteries for EVs in 2035. They mentioned Lithium iron phosphate and sodium ion batteries. But they failed to state the obvious! The law doesn’t say everyone must buy a battery EV. They failed to even mention
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We have to switch to electric cars. Can the grid handle it? From a video on Engineering Explained channel. https://youtu.be/7dfyG6FXsUU EVs – electric vehicles – get about 100 miles per gallon equivalent. One gallon of gasoline is equivalent to 33.7 kWh. We do some math and come up with about 1 trillion kWh used by
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Living with an electric car has changed my mind. https://youtu.be/Qo4byxhI6kY
YouTube video, over an hour Elon Musk on life, the universe and everything, Part 2 https://youtu.be/iHmSrK238vI
