Eventually we will need an energy transition, but nor battery powered vehicles, nor the intermittent and environmentally disastrous power sources of wind and solar are a reasonable solution. We need to invest into next generation technologies.
I think hydrogen fuel cells are the way of the future. Cummins’ new EPA 2027 engines have been labeled “fuel agnostic “. They eventually will run on Diesel oil, biodiesel, natural gas and hydrogen. From what they say the block is basically the same with just the top side different. The exhaust from hydrogen burning is H2O.
The concept of the EV is a good one, but we simply don't have an infrastructure that can support it. The environmental people think it is cleaner but really it does more harm than good. The average lifespan of the workers in the lithium mines is around 35. The batteries are not renewable or recyclable (yet). The hydrogen technology is there and capable of using the internal combustion engine which would turn every vehicle into an air cleaner instead of a polluter. The problem here is that there is no money (fuel wise) in cars that can run on water so the oil cartel squashes most hydrogen technology. Money runs the show in our world at this time. A change of thinking is a gradually change that will take time to develop. The technologies are here. The control systems are in place now but are showing the signs of dying out. We are a few decades away from current thinking. The old saying is,
" If you do what you always have done, you will get what you always have got!"
Nobody says anything about public transportation anymore:
Does it still really scare the oil cartel that much?
Arizona less that 20 years ago used to be the clean air place to live: Now they warn Sr. Citizens and the breathing impaired to stay inside on the worst days, really!!
The shame is that there are some advantages to EVs. If "they" hadn't tried to push them on us, the American consumers, EVs could capture a small but highly motivated section of demand. They forget we are still the land of lbs/qts/pts/in/ft/yds nevermind how hard they tried to make us go full metric.
GM while not sharing the actual financial results of their EV vehicles like Ford does (and Ford has been losing Billions of dollars on the EV's In fact in 2024 the EV division lost almost the same amount of money that the ICE division made. IE Ford could had double its profits just by not selling any EV's. Anyway GM is losing just as much but they refuse to admit to it. So the adults in the GM room maybe are back in charge and want to actually make money building what the actual customers want.
Eventually we will need an energy transition, but nor battery powered vehicles, nor the intermittent and environmentally disastrous power sources of wind and solar are a reasonable solution. We need to invest into next generation technologies.
I think hydrogen fuel cells are the way of the future. Cummins’ new EPA 2027 engines have been labeled “fuel agnostic “. They eventually will run on Diesel oil, biodiesel, natural gas and hydrogen. From what they say the block is basically the same with just the top side different. The exhaust from hydrogen burning is H2O.
The concept of the EV is a good one, but we simply don't have an infrastructure that can support it. The environmental people think it is cleaner but really it does more harm than good. The average lifespan of the workers in the lithium mines is around 35. The batteries are not renewable or recyclable (yet). The hydrogen technology is there and capable of using the internal combustion engine which would turn every vehicle into an air cleaner instead of a polluter. The problem here is that there is no money (fuel wise) in cars that can run on water so the oil cartel squashes most hydrogen technology. Money runs the show in our world at this time. A change of thinking is a gradually change that will take time to develop. The technologies are here. The control systems are in place now but are showing the signs of dying out. We are a few decades away from current thinking. The old saying is,
" If you do what you always have done, you will get what you always have got!"
👏👏👏! Thank you.
Nobody says anything about public transportation anymore:
Does it still really scare the oil cartel that much?
Arizona less that 20 years ago used to be the clean air place to live: Now they warn Sr. Citizens and the breathing impaired to stay inside on the worst days, really!!
There are many who can say I told you so.
The shame is that there are some advantages to EVs. If "they" hadn't tried to push them on us, the American consumers, EVs could capture a small but highly motivated section of demand. They forget we are still the land of lbs/qts/pts/in/ft/yds nevermind how hard they tried to make us go full metric.
GM while not sharing the actual financial results of their EV vehicles like Ford does (and Ford has been losing Billions of dollars on the EV's In fact in 2024 the EV division lost almost the same amount of money that the ICE division made. IE Ford could had double its profits just by not selling any EV's. Anyway GM is losing just as much but they refuse to admit to it. So the adults in the GM room maybe are back in charge and want to actually make money building what the actual customers want.