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To: HamiltonJay
Everyone knows windmills are a scam.. when you add up their manufacture transport and installation costs they don’t even produce enough energy to make money over their typical life expectancy. It’s a complete scam

I don't know how old you are but in my life time NOTHING is going to replace the efficiency of oil and derivatives gasoline and jet fuel.

"A lithium-ion battery, at its best, packs 110 watt-hours of energy per pound. Gasoline has 6,000 watt-hours per pound. Now, a gasoline motor is inefficient, discarding 85% of the fuel's energy--losing it to the transmission, wasting it on idling and discharging it as heat. Electric motors waste just 10%, but it still leaves gas with a 9-to-1 weight advantage."

The Search for Cheaper, Lighter Car Batteries, Forbes, Jonathan Fahey, 06.28.10


12 posted on 08/13/2018 5:37:58 PM PDT by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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To: Cheerio

Nuclear?


20 posted on 08/13/2018 5:45:06 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Cheerio

Those pesky inconvenient physics.


43 posted on 08/13/2018 6:31:09 PM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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