EVs can't work, and are just stepping stones to banning all personal transportation

[Anti Federalist]

How about this one:




https://thecurrentga.org/2022/12/10/georgia-power-completes-key-testing-milestone-at-plant-vogtle/


And there are lots and lots of new natural gas plants under construction.

Hey that's good news.

We'll see who's right in about 20 years.

Maybe I should have said, "see where you can get financing" for a new nuke plant.

That project is 7 years behind schedule and:

The delays caused a series of cost overruns that more than doubled the original expected price tag of $14 billion.

I'd have to crunch some numbers, but I don't think that plant will produce $30 billion worth of electricity in it's designed life span.

 

[ClaytonB]

... in over 30 years ...

Boy, that's quite a depression in the nuclear energy market. Wonder how the market caused that. You're refuting yourself...

 

[pcosmar]

I have added to my reply.

To repeat: 23 million megawatts of new grid power will not come from wind and solar.

Any other options are banned, by government fiat.

Just on the face of it, it's a ridiculous assumption: the current, or any feasible future grid could not handle 23 million megawatts of added capacity.

Just the visual pollution alone of billions of new utility poles and transformers and wires and insulators to accommodate 480V 3 phase service (which is, along with $20,000, what you need if you are going to have a "fast" charger) to every home is staggering.

You don't need a Fast Charger at Home..

Many Charge stations are self powered,,independent of the Grid..

and Power Losses on an antiquated And Faulty Grid System needs to be addressed before any other question is Raised..

Wa State is powered by Rivers,, and so far we have put more back into the grid than we use from the Solar Panels.

Sherman County Or. is Producing Wind power ,,half a million+ MW. Coexisting with the wheat farms,,and profiting everyone in the County..

Solar works where there is Sun,, Wind works where there is Wind. and Water works all over the Country.

My only issue with Nukes is a bad habit of Mismanagement. There are a lot of ways to Create Electricity...

But if you can't get it to customers over the Sparking and crackling lines,,it is waste.

 

[TheCount]

Boy, that's quite a depression in the nuclear energy market. Wonder how the market caused that. You're refuting yourself...

Nuke plants don't make financial sense when natural gas is cheap and you can get a plant running in 5 years instead of 20.

 

[ClaytonB]

Nuke plants don't make financial sense when natural gas is cheap and you can get a plant running in 5 years instead of 20.

Do you just string words together in a sequence to "win" each post? Just above, you were lauding the cost-efficiency of nuke plants and "akhsually"-ing AF for pointing out that nuke-plants in the US have been being kiboshed since forever. Oh, excuse me, only for the past 30 years.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Can I say "AD"? Or have I offended a blue hair somewhere?

I think "CE" - for "Common Era" - is preferred (and likewise, "BCE" for "Before Common Era").

Though you probably shouldn't ask "what is 'common' about it, among whom is it 'common' - and why?".
(Doing so would be uncouth and obnoxious - not to mention almost certainly racist, misogynist, etc.).

To me, the "CE"/"BCE" usage is just round hole/square peg nonsense - the delineation, regardless of whether the heathens want to admit it, is the birth of Christ. Thus, after that date (however imprecise it may be), is "the year of our Lord" or, "Anno Domini". And so I will will use BC/AD, regardless of whether the blue hairs get "triggered". Let them be triggered. They need to learn to deal with difficulty.

 

[AngryCanadian]

Its like They want you to be staying locked up in a smart city without vehicles that you will able to drive freely.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Its like They want you to be staying locked up in a smart city without vehicles that you will able to drive freely.

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Last week there was yet another variation on the theme of stripping us of more of what it has meant to be human and alive. Also lurking under the darkening umbrella of Agenda 2030 is climate lockdown. It’s here already in the form of the 15-minute city.

In Britain the scam-scheme is being rolled out first in Oxford. Everyone will be confined to one of six ghettos inside which they might live out their lives on foot, or perhaps by bike. The Labour/Liberal/Green council responsible says it will go ahead whether people like it or not.

Every resident must register their car with the council, which will use number recognition cameras to monitor their movements around the clock.

Anyone driving out of their designated ghetto more than 100 times a year will be fined. This is about one agenda and one agenda only – keeping people apart … increasing the atomisation of society, the deliberate division of people into smaller and smaller dependent units.

This outrage proposed in Oxford is the tip of an iceberg. Because we humans, we useless people, we hackable animals, are so sub-optimal, so contemptible in the eyes of our self-appointed superiors, we must be watched at all times. It’s not just in Oxford.

In every city there are cameras monitoring everyone’s every move. Forget the nonsense of the 15-minute city, it is simply and plainly the bars of the cage of climate lockdown. Covid ran out of steam and so the next excuse for total control is the weather.

Here in Britain, it starts in Oxford, but the 15-minute-city nonsense is already all over the word. Plans are in place for London, for Paris, for Milan, for Krakow in Poland and in scores more places besides. In Melbourne, Zero Covid zealot Dan Andrews, the premier recently re-elected by those in favor of seeing fellow citizens brutalized in the street by black-clad storm troopers, waxes lyrical about a 20-minute-city.

Don’t bother with the details, just remember the word: lockdown. A word that came from prison parlance is now all around us. The excuse keeps changing … but lockdown remains the same.

 

[TheCount]

Do you just string words together in a sequence to "win" each post? Just above, you were lauding the cost-efficiency of nuke plants and "akhsually"-ing AF for pointing out that nuke-plants in the US have been being kiboshed since forever. Oh, excuse me, only for the past 30 years.

I think you have fundamental reading comprehension issues.

Lemme know when you find my post lauding the cost-efficiency of nuke plants.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Here's yet another downside I was not aware of at all.


The Microwave You Drive?

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2022/12/14/the-microwave-you-drive/

By
eric -
December 14, 2022

You may not listen to AM radio – which for the generations preceding the Millennials was what many of us listened to on lonesome road trips out in the sparsely populated areas of the country, where FM signals couldn’t reach but AM signals could.

But you might be interested in why AM is going away.

Well, it’s not actually going away. AM continues to broadcast. But a growing number of new cars cannot receive what is broadcast via AM.

Electric cars.

And electric trucks like the Ford F-150 Lightning this writer just spent a week test driving (you can read more about that if you like, here). They have satellite radio and FM radio – but not AM radio.

Their audio systems have had the capacity to receive AM signals deleted.

How come?

It is because EMF (Electromagnetic Frequency) emissions – to borrow a popular word – interfere with AM reception to such an extent as to make listening to anything being broadcast via AM essentially impossible. The manufacturers of electric vehicles don’t want complaints from customers annoyed by a feature that doesn’t work – and can’t be made to work, at least not properly.

So they – Tesla, Audi, Porsche, VW and now Ford – have simply deleted AM, eliminating that potential problem.

“Rather than frustrate customers with inferior reception and noise, the decision was made to leave it off vehicles that feature eDrive technology,” said BMW in a statement.

But what about the underlying problem? The reason why AM broadcast reception is a problem in electric vehicles? Has anyone looked into whether an EV’s EMF emissions are – to borrow a phrase – safe and effective?

It is known that, as a general principle, too much EMF radiation isn’t good for your health. It is why people are advised to not hold a smartphone against their heads, for instance. This caution is interesting given that an electric car can be considered a massive smartphone. Like a smartphone, it is constantly emitting EMF radiation, only more of it – and you are inside it.

How much EMF is being emitted by electric cars? Inside electric cars? One tester found a consistently pulsing as much as 100 milliwatts of EMG energy bathing him, within his Tesla electric car. This being comparable to what a smartphone emits. Or a microwave ove.

The difference being one cannot avoid being bathed with the EMF inside a car broadcasting it without getting away from the car – os standing back from the oven. Driving an EMF-emitting EV can be thought of as having a conventional, gas powered car with its tailpipe inside the car.

And the effects could be worse in that a modern gas-engined car’s exhaust stream is mostly water vapor and carbon dioxide. Keep the window cracked and you will probably be fine. But EMF emissions can’t be diluted by rolling down the window.

Or even by turning the car off, as these devices continue to emit even when parked.

The actual danger of being bathed in so much EMF isn’t yet know because it will take time – years – for the effects, if any, to be fully understood. Very much of a piece with the “vaccines” millions have taken that weren’t long-term tested before millions of people took them. There is, however, data suggesting an uptick in certain cancers with the use of smartphones. In particular, cancers of the brain and ear. Interestingly, these cancers – Gliomas and acoustic neuromas – are developing on the side of people’s heads that just happen to be the same side that those people held their phones up against.

According to these studies, the people most likely to develop these tumors were those who spent “an average of 54 minutes on the phone per day.”

How much time do people spend within a car, each day?

It may well prove to be the case that the EMF emissions being generated by EVs is benign – or at least, relatively harmless. But it’s interesting that there has been very little in the way of official interest in finding out first – before bathing potentially millions of people in EV-generated EMF emissions.

Perhaps even more interesting is the fact that millions of people are likely to be bathed in these emissions for the sake of reducing the emissions of a trace gas (C02) that is known to be harmless to humans in trace amounts and which is absolutely essential to human life, assuming humans want to eat. All because of an asserted risk to the “climate” that has been repeatedly shown to be overblown if it exists at all.

Yet no concern is expressed about very real EMF emissions that the evidence strongly suggest are a threat to humans exposed to them above a certain background threshold level. No government regulations limiting how much EMG can be emitted by electric cars. The same government that goes berserk over almost immeasurable emissions such as those emitted by VW’s extirpated line of diesel-powered cars, which no one was harmed by.

Instead, just nix the AM receiver in the car – so that people will not be aware of what they’re being bathed in, when they’re inside the car.

Until, of course, they become aware of the effects of being bathed in these EV emissions.

 

[cjm]

I was driving through west Texas in the 90s and there was a 10-15 min stretch where I couldn't even get AM. But to the topic, I hadn't thought of that either.

 

[ClaytonB]

Dodge has gone full-retard. Say hello to the new electric muscle-golfcart, oops, I mean, muscle-car.







Doesn't matter if it's trash quality because its purpose is not to be a car, that is, its purpose is not to replace existing cars (long-term), its purpose is to displace as many cars as possible, and then die (be replaced by PuBliC tRaNspOrTatIoN).

More from the "Tesla build-quality is trash" archives:

 

[Anti Federalist]

When the Lights Go Out . . .

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2022/12/16/when-the-lights-go-out/

By
eric -
December 16, 2022

When the power goes out, the lights go out. Break out the flashlights and candles. But it rarely means you cannot go out.

Unless, of course, you have an electric car – and you assumed the power would be on, to charge it up. Then – per the Toothless Man in Deliverance – you ain’t a goin’ nowhere, city boy.

On the other hand, a power outage has zero effect on your car or truck’s ability to take you somewhere – like to work, for instance – if it is not an electric car (or truck). Even if its “range” is low because you only left a couple gallons in the tank, it’s not a problem – especially if you had the foresight to keep a few gallons of gas in a jug for just-in-case.

It is effectively impossible to keep on hand for just-in-case the energy equivalent of five gallons of gas in the form of electricity, to get a discharged electric vehicle going when there’s no power to get it going.

Which is why the Ford Mach e I am test driving this week isn’t going anywhere for awhile. It had very little range (charge) left last night when I parked it – and plugged it in – assuming the power would be on and that the car would have recovered sufficient charge (and so, range) to be viable for driving rather than waiting.

But an ice storm intervened.

The power is still out as I type this on Friday morning, using power supplied to my computer via my gas-powered generator. I could perhaps use the generator to power the EV, but that wouldn’t be very “green” of me. And – regardless – it would entail an unexpected wait.

I had assumed the Mach e would be ready to drive this morning. This can be a very inconvenient assumption, if the power goes out.

The Mach e isn’t going anywhere, for awhile.

And neither would I be able to – were it not for the fact that I own a truck that runs on gas. It is always ready to go, whether the power is on – or off. And even if I had parked it with very little “range” remaining, in the form of gas in its tank, I would be able to add range very easily –*because I always keep an extra five gallons of gas around for just-in-case. Pour it in – the job takes a couple of minutes – and I am, literally good to go.

But if I didn’t have my truck – if I owned an electric vehicle like the Mach e – I would be out o’ luck.

At least until the power comes back on. Sometimes, that does not happen for several days in my area.

This bears thinking about – or should, especially in view of the paradoxical fact that electric vehicles make power outages more likely on account of the fact that electric vehicles draw a lot of power – for which demand there is already insufficient capacity. This problem may compound on account of the not-well-known fact that electric vehicles need to be kept plugged in even after they have fully charged up because otherwise they will lose charge, on account of the power drawn by the battery pack’s temperature control system.

You can leave your gas-engined vehicle parked outside in the freezing cold. The cold will have no meaningful effect on the chemical energy you have available in the tank. If the tank was full when you parked it last night, it will be full when you go to drive it this morning.

But the more relevant scenario is this one:

You leave it parked with just a couple of gallons in the tank – because you didn’t have the time last night on the way home to stop for a fill-up. Or you just forgot to. The point is, you didn’t have to.

Your gas engined vehicle will still have the same range that it had when you parked it because those couple of gallons in the tank do not evaporate overnight. But if you parked your electric vehicle outside, in the cold, with very little range remaining, there may be no range left the following morning because of the power consumed overnight by the car, trying to keep the battery from getting too cold.

I observed this happening with the Ford Lightning I test drove last week. It lost an indicated 20 miles of range, just sitting outside (unplugged-in) from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday morning.

Of course, you could avoid that by just plugging it in before you leave it for the night. But what if – as happened here last night – the power goes out? Perhaps – in our “electrified” future – because so many other electric vehicles were plugged in to the grid, all of them sucking power to keep their batteries from freezing? Now you freeze – if there’s a blackout and your home is heated electrically.

You’re also stuck in your freezing home – because your electric car is range-kaput because the power went out.

Lucky for me, I have my truck – and a five gallon jug of gas. The power can be out all day – and may well be. But I won’t be stuck, even though the Mach e is.

I think I’ll hang on to my truck.

Addendum: The power is still out as of late Friday afternoon and so the Mach e is still inert. But we just came back from a drive into town to get some things at Lowes and so on. If all we’d have to rely on for transportation was the electric car, we’d have been housebound all day.

Possibly tomorrow, too.

Welcome to the “electrified” future of transportation!

 

[pcosmar]

This $hit is coming back.

Pick your alternative..there are several..

Produce your own Power and stop Paying people that Hate you.

 

[pcosmar]

[MENTION=3169]Anti Federalist[/MENTION]

I am following perhaps the Ultimate Personal Freedom Vehicle,, it is Electric, and is Built mostly from Petrol.. A long term use of Oil.

and there is a lot of other such uses ,,aside from burning it at 10 miles a gal.

Look at the Vehicle and IGNORE the "Green Propaganda..(selling point to those believers) Look from an engineering and Efficiency stand point.

https://aptera.us/

The Whole car is Carbon Fiber and Fiber Glass,,Polyurethane,, it is built from Oil. just a more efficient use of it.

p.s. this whole car weighs less than the eHummer Battery pack,, and goes further.

 

[pcosmar]

DIY,personal Freedom

 

[ClaytonB]

Recent photo of pcosmar and family, out and about:

 

[ClaytonB]

 

[ClaytonB]

This vehicle makes no sense:



... but I'd still rather have that than a Tesla. Caddy, you cray-cray!!

 

[Anti Federalist]

Wind energy company pleads guilty after at least 150 eagles killed in U.S.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...agles-killed-us-rcna23360?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

April 7, 2022, 6:52 AM EDT / Source: Associated Press
By The Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — A subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. providers of renewable energy pleaded guilty to criminal charges and was ordered to pay over $8 million in fines and restitution after at least 150 eagles were killed at its wind farms in eight states, federal prosecutors said.

NextEra Energy subsidiary ESI Energy was also sentenced to five years probation after being charged with three counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act during a court appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The charges arose from the deaths of nine eagles at three wind farms in Wyoming and New Mexico.

In addition to those deaths, the company acknowledged the deaths of golden and bald eagles at 50 wind farms affiliated with ESI and NextEra since 2012, prosecutors said. Birds were killed in eight states: Wyoming, California, New Mexico, North Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, Arizona and Illinois.

NextEra, based in Juno Beach, Florida, bills itself as the world’s largest utility company by market value. It has more than 100 wind farms in the U.S. and Canada and also generates natural gas, nuclear and solar power.

Almost all of the eagles killed at the NextEra subsidiary’s facilities were struck by the blades of wind turbines, prosecutors said. Some turbines killed multiple eagles and because the carcasses are not always found, officials said the number killed was likely higher than the 150 birds cited in court documents.

Prosecutors said the company’s failure to take steps to protect eagles or to obtain permits to kill the birds gave it an advantage over competitors that did take such steps — even as ESI and other NextEra affiliates received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits from the wind power they produced.

NextEra spokesperson Steven Stengel said the company didn’t seek permits because it believes the law didn’t require them for unintentional bird deaths. The company said its guilty plea will resolve all allegations over past fatalities and allow it to move forward without a continued threat of prosecution.