Lithium–air battery, they could make electric cars practical.

“Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans”

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Your data is years out of date, here is an article from today

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Western European insurance companies are calling for fossil fuels to be kept in the ground to prevent unsustainable loses to be paid from Climate Change.

U.S. insurance companies have an additional problem in that they are heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry. :frowning:

Regrettably:

That page also debunked as a myth the story that rapidly moving ICBMs on trailers, to enable retaliation after a nuclear first strike, was part of the design spec.

More on that here:

That was all before multiple independent steerable reentry warheads and smaller lighter stronger H-bombs. I recall a caller to a talk show, a few years back, saying that he was one of the launch control guys under that mountain in Colorado at the peak of the cold war and “we target time zones, not cities” or words to that effect.

I sure hope we stay smarter than we were in the 1950s and 1960s ….

The Military Industrial Complex which today would include Silicon Valley with its connection to ‘Smart Weapons’ and its ties to the Nation Security Agency has always used national security to boost profits.

The argument to build highways for a defense from nuclear attack was the ticket for profit using fear as its reasoning.

We are currently in the Holocene Extinction, the Earth’s Sixth, and some still seem to argue that we arrived at this situation from sound policy. :frowning:

Yeah, I’ve been hoping the IWW is learning Chinese …

Pride and attribution in workmanship helps toward solving a lot of quality control problems — here, there, everywhere.

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The IWW which began in 1905 and flowered with Big Bill Haywood was soon to fade away. I am, however, still a member.

The IWW was certainly a sound concept with labor being world wide issue and the IWW tried to argue against racism.

In the U.S.today Union Labor is just 11%. I am 72 years old and worked four four different unions and currently receive a Union Pension which is on the verge of being bankrupt. If I was to begin work today as a young person, I could not reach the good fortune I do have now. :frowning:

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What I don’t understand is why GM doesn’t make EV:s that can be fast charged and set up their own chain of “SuperChargers”. That would put the range anxiety to rest. Or are they maybe not really serious about EV:s?…

see number 7

The Chevy Bolt should compete with the model S in both range and price.

But without “SuperChargers” it’s not a viable alternative to any Tesla (as a single/primary car)!

the G.M. Volt has had design problems with their battery choice in high and low temperatures.

Would you pay much more than lip service to electric vehicles if you already had a product selling millions of unit a year
A product you have a worldwide network of dealers/ engineers/equipment/parts suppliers already set up for ICE powered vehicles.
A product that’s simple and easy to use and time tested for over a hundred years.
A lighting fast refuelling network on every street corner almost, giving it unlimited range.
Not to mention all the vested intrests in you continuing to sell ICE powered vehicles, from government, big business, the oil industry to name but a few.

Most economies are oil based, can’t see that changing anytime soon,not with the abundance of oil around and more reserves being found all the time,so whilst electric vehicles will make inroads it will likely be fairly slowly ,electric vehicles may even just be a stop gap until someone smart comes up with something better than both ICE or EV powered vehicles.

Till the oil runs low, expect business as usual with a few electric vehicles sprinkled in among all the ICE powered vehicles

Oil comes with a price tag we can’t afford and can no longer ignore. It’s going to end badly if we don’t recognize that. Other countries have and are moving away from oil, we can and we must. It will take time, even more so with “we can’t do it this minute so we shouldn’t try at all” thinking. It took more than decades to put gas stations on every corner in a time when all construction was done by hand. That got done and so will this. When need drives…

The Titanic when it sailed in 1912 was the most sophisticated and safest ship ever manufactured. They were so confident that life boats had the capability to carry less than half on board.

Hubris and failure usually have a strong connection.

Quite agree, we can’t go on burning fossil fuels like we are and like we have been, not just that but often in such a wasteful way, who needs a ridiculous big 4x4 that does 7mpg, to drive one child to school everyday in a 1st would country ?
Fine as a toy weekend for a blast, but why not get a economical daily driver, a small VW car can do 80-90 mpg, even something like that multiplied would probably make more a difference, but things like that are just the tip of a very big ice burg, we are simply far to wasteful with fossil fuels

The main issue though is we are addicted to oil, we are awash with it, it’s cheap, $30 a barrel last time I looked
And far to many vested intrests tied up with oil and keeping the consumer using it.

But these electric cars arnt some silver bullet some people would have us believe, at the present time a hybrid makes more sense and would be a better option,small ultra efficient ice engine supplying the electrical energy.
Remember unless an electric car is charged up from renewables, it’s still burning up fossil fuels, so why not burn it where it’s needed and most efficient? In the vehicle.

But by far the simplest and easiest solution,- maybe as a short term solution whilst we work out the electric vehicle flaws or something else - is to make what we have I.e the internal combustion engine much more efficient and the vehicles lighter - you can already buy family cars with small turbo charged engines that will do 100mpg - with the will or demand from consumer that could easily be improved upon by the established manufacturers and the efficiency would filter up to bigger vehicles in the range.
No change of infrastructure needed, no expensive electricity grid updating or charging infrastructure needed, simply changes like that could be with us in no time and certainly quickly than waiting for a electric vehicle that is as practical/convenient is an ice vehicle is today.

Just my opinion of course :slight_smile:

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Oil prices closed today at $43.58.

As the world begins to understand the relationship between all fossil fuels and climate change the prices of fossil fuels will drop even more. In June 2008 the price was $136.31 a barrel.

At even low prices the fossil fuel industries will be making money as compared to not selling any fossil fuels.

Study any people with an addiction and the their ability to justify it is remarkable.

Aside: the IWW, still active: http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Unionized-Staff-at-Ellens-Stardust-Diner-to-Stop-Singing-After-Multiple-Terminations-20160914
“… owner … fired six long-time employees in retaliation for their efforts to form a union …”