You are a dreamer!
There is absolutely nothing good about dependency on something that can be turned off in a moment, and cannot be replenished without electric power to the grid.
It’ll kill millions in a day.
This is beyond Nevill Shute’s “On the Beach” tenfold.
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So you’re a supporter of the internal combustion engine via gasoline or natural gas and fuel cell cars. That’s fine.
The Amish don’t care to be on the grid either. Their issue is not with electricity. Its rather with the grid. As a result there are amish bishops here and there allowing their congregations to use solar to generate electricity on their own property because the electricity doesn’t come from the grid.
Elon Musk is also very interested in solar power for his electric car batteries — not—of course because the power does not come from the grid—but rather because he’s a part owner of a big solar power company. And of course because he’s also building a big battery plant for cars and houses with solar power.
Are you starting to get the picture?
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I have been running the electrical needs of my ranch, which is 10 miles or more from the end of the “grid,” off of solar PV panels and lead-acid storage batteries for almost 15 years.
These facilities have their limitations, beyond which one cannot go. Batteries wear out at a fairly predictable rate, solid state circuits are delicate, and often fail, and cold weather reduces the effectiveness of batteries, often by 80% or more.
When you have nothing else to rely upon, you thank God for them, and carry on about your life accordingly.
Petroleum fueled autos are presently the cleanest, safest, and most reliable mode of transport in existence. Electric autos are not “clean” because they rely on the least efficient modes of power generation for the excess load they add to our power grid, and not in the least bit dependable, and the real experts say that regardless of the puffing braggadocio of the hucksters, there is presently no technology on the horizon that can make them reliable at reasonable cost, fiscal, nor environmental.
Musk is a swindling huckster that has sucked the titty of federal and state funding to the limit.
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