As opposed to those dependent on big oil financing?Probably the same scientists who promoted Covid vaccines and discounted Ivermectin. Most depend on government funding
As opposed to those dependent on big oil financing?Probably the same scientists who promoted Covid vaccines and discounted Ivermectin. Most depend on government funding
Sure , when full nuclear power generation is used, grid updated, then we can lower fossil fuel use.No sane person claims carbon fuels should be forsaken for these exact reasons you state. However, why not use them for these purposes and at least try to cut them where we can? Electricity production and personal vehicles being the obvious. And your statement about climate scientists all about the $ is pure bunk IMO. Maybe a very vast minority see profits as their motive but I would bet the house most see science and concern for future generations instead.
A lot of it are political dreams.We will always have plastics, unless you want everything to return to steel, we will always need asphalt, jet fuel, caulking, solvents, fertilizer, cell phones, epoxies, paint, industrial belts and lubricants, nail polish, antiseptics, solar panels, cell phone antennas on towers, wind turbine blades, roofing, vinyl and rubber - so fossil fuel is not going away, not in the next 200 years.
In fact there are at least 6,000 everyday products that require fossil fuel (oil or N. gas).
The dream of an world devoid of oil being pumped is a fantasy and so may lemmings are shutting down roads in Europe to end all fossil fuels - and probably coordinated the protests on their cell phones.
Zero Carbon is impossible - but if you just buy some of Al Gores carbon credits and say 3 hail Marys you will be absolved of fossil fuel sin.
You should have moved them to Eugene or Roseburg for better accessibility.Yes change is constant and what may considered as warm places now maybe considered cold places in the next decades.
I lived in Oregon for several years and in the winter of 2008 it was one of the coldest on record.
Portland was snowed in, as was the entire Willamette Valley, which usually has temperate winters - then came an ice storm.
I could not get from Portland to Bend to visit my elderly parents even with chains and my 4-wheel drive for several weeks.
So why was it one of the worst winters ? Who knows - weather always changes.
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10 years later: The 2008 blizzard that walloped Portland (photos)
The storms that smacked Oregon in 2008 broke records, shuttered icy freeways and brought Portland to a grinding halt.www.oregonlive.com
Fair enough on your statement - although there are plenty of protesters in Europe who want to "Just Stop Oil", demanding all fossil fuel be terminated. They are of course nose-ring wearing, purple-haired dunderheads
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Just Stop Oil: What is it and what are its goals?
The group wants more action on climate change - but its tactics have faced criticism.www.bbc.com
And renewables do make up to 18% of electricity in the US - 'during daylight summer hours'
However renewables only produce electricity, but none of the other 6,000 items that oil is used to produce, which includes the solar panels on a roof to feedback to the grid. Some utilities in some states and some municipalities are blocking permits on solar hookups back to grids. California is about to implement a tax of up $600/year on any new rooftop solar system.
And to charge those electric cars at night (95% of EVs are charged at night when solar power leaves the grid)
It takes roughly 70 pounds of coal to produce the energy required to charge a 66 kWh electric car battery and would take 8-10 gallons of a barrel of oil ( 22% of a 42 gallon barrel of oil ). This equates to 4 gallons of gasoline if it were refined for fuel.
A full full 295 mile range charge on a Tesla at a Supercharge station costs $6.37 per 100 miles and requires ~ 2 hours (if a spot is available).
A 2023 Hyundai Elantra hybrid (non-plug in model) gets 50 mpg average on gasoline and requires 7 minutes to fill. (55 mpg on highway)
So in Palm Beach, Florida, at $3.65 a gallon, the cost to go 100 miles in a Elantra is $7.30 (93 cents more than a Tesla per 100 miles), however your total range will be 550 miles between fuel fill-ups, while your range on a Tesla Model Y is about 295 miles of range, (ideal with a new battery, using no AC or heat), less distance in cold weather.
So you would be about 140 miles (two hours of driving) behind the Elantra on spring time cross country drive after the first 6.2 hours of the trip, at a driving speed 70 mph.
Or 20 hours behind on a 3,000 mile trip which would be over two days later if driving only 8 hours per day.
This is why it isn't practical now for tractor trailer rigs to go electric, although there are many experimental big rigs being tested.
They can drive a maximum of 11 hours/day by law and they get paid per mile of trip, so they don't want to be parked, even an hour, to recharge.
Interestingly there are people now selling conversion kits for natural gas home generators to charge EVs.
Except it takes more than 50 years now to get a nuclear power plant from idea to ribbon cuttingSure , when full nuclear power generation is used, grid updated, then we can lower fossil fuel use.
Obviously nuclear waste storage is still a problem.Sure , when full nuclear power generation is used, grid updated, then we can lower fossil fuel use.
Yet it was a decision of the German government to shut down modern operating nuclear power plants.Except it takes more than 50 years now to get a nuclear power plant from idea to ribbon cutting
Yeah I look better at 74, but he of course was subject to the UK's NHSThis guy's nearly 60? If he's the poster child for fast driving and hard living then count me out![]()
Probably the same scientists who promoted Covid vaccines and discounted Ivermectin. Most depend on government funding
The Earth's core, not the atmosphere, is, and always has been, responsible for global catastrophe. It will be the Earth's core and the sun's heat or an asteroid that will bring about the Earth's finality. The sun will much outlast poor Earth.Ocean temperatures and climate are a concern.
Yet no need to panic.
And so this is how I feel about EVs, except i'm way past 60:
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To quote a thoughtful guy,The Earth's core, not the atmosphere, is, and always has been, responsible for global catastrophe. It will be the Earth's core and the sun's heat or an asteroid that will bring about the Earth's finality. The sun will much outlast poor Earth.
We already know what's going to happen. We just don't know when.To quote a thoughtful guy,
"Folks let me make this simple. For 4.5 billion years, species, land and oceans have come and gone. One day the Earth will be a dead planet. The human effect on the Earth is less than notable. We will be sucked into a black hole (the sun), be hit by an asteroid, or the core will melt the Earth billions of years before the human element can cause the same level of damage."
First let's see if we can equal the Dinosaurs 175 million years??
ImpossibleTo quote a thoughtful guy,
"Folks let me make this simple. For 4.5 billion years, species, land and oceans have come and gone. One day the Earth will be a dead planet. The human effect on the Earth is less than notable. We will be sucked into a black hole (the sun), be hit by an asteroid, or the core will melt the Earth billions of years before the human element can cause the same level of damage."
First let's see if we can equal the Dinosaurs 175 million years??