Electric car plant

[davidyat]

I would like to see the electric supply grid be upgraded to handle the extra load of electric cars before the cars are forced upon us. And do you think the oil lobby in Congress is going to let laws be passed to take away money from them???

 

[ajoeiam]

Well as California is becoming quite adept at moving their energy pollution to other locales I would bet that such is only going to increase.

Now as to powerlines - - - here the turkeys built a new line for power export - - - last I heard the demand on the far end didn't happen yet. So the public purse got to spend some 3ish billion to move power from a hydro system that still isn't completed yet and may never finish - - - at least at the rate its going at.

One of my beefs is that they keep building more lines and a paltry number of cables on each.
I haven't seen any towers here with more than 9 cables (some have some serious big cables though) - - - north of Stuttgart Germany I saw towers with 40 (!!!!) cables - - - I guess because we have some more space here that we need to pollute out crop land with more towers - - - its the sensible thing to do you know!!!!!!!! (idiots!!!!!!).

 

[maybach_man]

There is a certain symmetry that, here in the UK, during the last Labour government it was proposed to construct some Nuclear power stations to make us pretty self sufficient in Electrical generation. This was vigorously opposed by Greenpeace, who took the government to court and won an injunction to stop the scheme. These power stations would have all been commissioned by now, so we would now have had 'clean energy'. Because of their actions, we are not only still using oil and gas for heating, we are i am sure, going to see a major increase in open fires and stoves in domestic houses causing far more harm to the environment....

 

[Lloyd-ss]

I have noticed that with all hot-button issues, where you have a small number of hardcore extremists at each end of the controversy, that the hateful arguing between the extremists, wastefully consumes all of the energy of the discussion, and all hope of compromise or a common-sense pragmatic solution is handicapped to a fatal level.
Usually, the majority of the population are somewhere in the middle and want to learn enough about an issue to make an educated decision, but the continuous repetitious yelling of truths, half-truths, and lies, by the extremists at both ends make that impossible.
Human nature makes it inevitable that an answer that pleases everyone is a fantasy. But a sensible solution that might be grudgingly ok for almost everyone, could be found if the loud mouth extremists, on both sides, would shut up and let the majority in the middle have its time at the podium.
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5% of the people cause 95% of the problems.
Electric cars are not evil, nor will they solve all of the problems of the world. But, they will help improve many things, if approached in a sensible manner. Just my 2 cents worth of podium time.