The true benefit of electric cars is they take emissions away from the inner city leaving them at the source of power production, whatever that may be. Electric cars are not actually very ‘green’ in any other sense.
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The true benefit of electric cars is they take emissions away from the inner city leaving them at the source of power production, whatever that may be. Electric cars are not actually very ‘green’ in any other sense.
There's plenty of cartoons demonstrating the major issue about the environmentally friendly car. The other problem is the limited lifespan of the batteries & the emissions caused by creating the car. Nothing is truly renewable. If we weren't so dependent of upgrading cars so often in this throwaway society we could develop a nuclear powered car.Quote:
Originally Posted by DazzaTD5
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France generates a lot of power from nuclear. That’s a win win for them. Renewables make up a lot of the rest as in many EU countries that are mandating electric vehicles in built up areas. Petrol electric hybrids will be popular also.
Funny how a lot of France lives within cooee of a nuclear power station quite happily and enjoy low cost reliable power.
The adverts really apply to Australia’s energy situation. It’s a surprise we don’t have a travel warning for France due to the extreme nuclear risk our politicians are so worried about.
Yes just look at the early nuclear submarine - capable of circumnavigating the world at 20knots using a piece of uranium no bigger than a golf ball & not having to surface for oxygen. Pretty good!Quote:
Originally Posted by PerthDisco
What I find interesting is that all the areas in Australia that are Uranium rich are Aboriginal sacred areas so can't be mined [emoji848]
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) - Wikipedia
Nuclear marine propulsion - Wikipedia
Anyway I'm rapidly taking the thread off topic....
What's really sad is I still remember the ditty so it's done right and it's been almost 20 years since I last worked on one. - Valery Tickles Gary's Balls Mainly In Bed.Quote:
Originally Posted by johntins
The clipboard was more for stopping the engine revving at full noise (usually due to cocking up the rack balancing) than a runaway though
Im pretty sure people driving Tesla cars for free are very happy using the free charging stationsQuote:
Originally Posted by DazzaTD5
Head out to Hartley in the blue mountains there is a Solar genius at Hartley solar who pays ZERO to drive his car, its recharged from his panels on display out front of his shop.
If carbon pricing wasn't killed off we would have carbon sequestration at point of production (power stations) reducing emissions significantly. But no, again to stupid to see the forest for the trees and now they have killed off any sensible investment in base load power production..........so we will be in a state of turmoil for some time with power cuts looming.
Coal cant compete at all with renewables, no investment houses will go near coal power production.
What part of owning a tesla ****box is FREE or ZERO ??? the purchase price $120K and then some or the cost of installing the solar panels etc?Quote:
Originally Posted by RR P38
Return on investment looks like the only ZERO thing there.
Motor vehicles account for around 8% of Australia's emissions, the big killer is our electricity production, you know all that nasty coal being burnt. Add to that we export 3 times as much coal as we burn. If Australia (if we actually had a working Government) was serious about our health and that of the planet we would stop burning coal and stop selling it.
Again if Australia was serious about our health they would get rid of Australia's fleet of aging old emissions spewing trucks that are used as inner city deliveries and wharf to distribution centre deliveries. This is where real world answers lay in such hybrid and electric trucks from FUSO / DAIMLER, not pie in the sky bull**** from tesla.
Regards
Daz
And another thread degenerates into an unhinged rant against electric cars. :clap2:
Erm sorry about that - lets get back to runaway 'Screamin Jimmies' or Peugeots...[emoji6]Quote:
Originally Posted by bee utey
Where did you read that as i haven`t seen any of that in this thread [wink11]Quote:
Originally Posted by bee utey
Not being precious are we[bighmmm]