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Originally Posted by David
Batteries will get cheaper in the next few years and they're not worthless once they can only hold 70-80% of their original charge they just become too heavy for a vehicle. They can still be used to store power in a stationary environment so the batteries can be placed in large groups to help smooth wind or solar power that's a bit unpredictable.
The big plus is they're charged from hydrocarbons that are almost 100% locally produced so the money's not going to sponsor mideast terrorists.
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The only way batteries are going to get cheaper is if the gubmint subsidizes them even more than they aready do.
That doesn't make them cheaper. It makes them more expensive, the only difference EVERYONE ends up paying for someone else's POS (well at least everyone of us that actually pays taxes).
Next point, where zackly do those "local" electrons come from?
What form of energy is used to generate that spark-tricity?
The joke in charge is doing everything he can to eliminate the US coal industry.
The tree-huggers and scady-tards won't let a new nuke plant get built cause we might have a 9.0 quake with a 100 foot high wall of water hit Nebraska.
Wind and solar are total jokes and cost AT LEAST 4 times as much as conventional generating kwh's.
Hydro-electric is very efficient (after you spend billions on the dam and flood the valley) but lots of places (like So cal and most of tejas) don't have that much running water.
geothermal is an even bigger joke that is only good for shuffling public money into private pockets due to the small scale. Same with bio, can't make enough of it cheap enough to even be a drop in the bucket.
That leaves oil and natural gas. The most logical fuel source we have and we have lots. Over 100 years of untappen natural gas in the US with almost double that amount in unproven (but well known) sources.
Sorry in advance for the bubble-bursting but reality sux sometimes.
