Posted on 11/07/2023 9:37:56 AM PST by aculeus
Interesting.
Thanks for the background on that “cartoon”
Your point is well made.
I recall the post war 1945-1970 era as a time of faith in ourselves and our country and great optimism about the future.
In general, people had far less disposable income and material goods but were much more united, had more freedom, and were more self reliant and independent.
After all - the USA put men on the moon and brought them safely home with slide rule engineering and technology barely past the day of the vacuum tube!
Was there anything at all Americans couldn’t do!!!
For me the big turning point was the 1973-1874 oil embargo followed by the foibles, malaise and despair of the Carter administration.
Since then there have been ups and downs but the general trend has been down.
More people today have been through advanced education but seem to be lest capable, less curious, less insightful and less resourceful than was the post war generation with far less formal education.
Functional fuel cells have been around for decades. Remember Apollo 13? It's electricity came from fuel cells. The problem is carrying enough hydrogen in the vehicle to run it. Hydrogen doesn't liquify easily, so it must be stored under very high pressures. This means large, heavy storage tanks in the vehicles. It was a fuel cell pressure tank that caused the Apollo 13 disaster.
Hydrogen is also very energy intensive to produce. It takes twice as much energy to electrolyze and compress it as you get from using it. That's simply the reality of physics. Hydrogen also attacks steel, with 'hydrogen embrittlement', so it can't be transported in existing pipelines, and being the smallest molecule known, it leaks out of storage systems.
“ Everything running this is a tax write off or a tax subsidy.”
That describes all the crap spawned by the climate change hysteria. From university professors and their PhD candidate students to windmills to solar panels to CAFE standards to batteries to tens of thousands jetting to attend a thousand bogus conferences to shutting down agriculture to the fashion to eat bugs. The breadth and scope of the “climate industry” is truly staggering. It must reduce global output for real goods and services by $500 billion to $1 trillion per year. Just think if we weren’t pissing away all that money on pure horse crap.
Read later. I want one.
Well I know for sure I ain’t flying in no electric aero plane… no way.
At least with a Tesla... you can open the door and get out... but one of these have a bad battery and “look out below!”
If they use the same type of battery as electric cars, these also just burn and burn. They are hard to put out. We are literally talking about high-heat incendiary bombs just waiting to fall from the sky.
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