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3. Add more crony capitalism will only create the next “Big Oil”. I don’t want another “Big Oil”. I want to remove “Big Oil”.
4. First, you’re assuming Hydrogen Fuel Cell is the only type of Fuel Cell. Think http://www.bloomenergy.com/. Now that we abundant clean and renewable electricity, we can use that clean and renewable energy in many ways. We can use it to fuel up super capacitors, or to split hydrogen from H2O, or the many other ways we can solve this storage problem. Battery is not the only problem. If we solve the production problem, then storing Hydrogen is A LOT cleaner than BEV and a lot better for the environment long term. It won’t add to the land fill. Battery eventually will lose all of its efficiency and need to be discarded. Which is bad for the environment. The storage tank used to store Hydrogen can be repaired of damaged or recycled.
5. Infrastructure is there for now, but need to be maintained. New infrastructure also need to be created as we add more suburbs. So, you’re better off helping the environment if you disincentivize long commutes and incentivize walk-ability. Just because we’ve done a bad thing doesn’t mean we have to continue to incentivize that bad behavior.
6. Again, repurposed batteries is only applicable for a finite period of time. Eventually, you will still need to chuck it. You also need heavy machinery to mine for the minerals that’s need to make battery. If we solve the production of electricity problem, where we can produce it cleanly and indefinitely, then we can use that electricity to split hydrogen from H2O, which will give us clean energy and fuel indefinitely with nothing to fill up our landfill.[/quote]
3. if we can actually remove all subsidies to Big Oil I would personally fly back to DC and hand deliver my solar and my EV rebates directly back to the IRS with a big bow on top.
4. That’s great, thanks for the link. I’m open to any alternative to fossil fuel. Any idea when the production version of solid oxide fuel cell will be hitting the streets? As for battery, battery density is getting incredibly good in extremely short period of time. As for degradation, aside from the first gen LEAFs in extreme weather locations, degradation has been minimal.
5. Agree about incentivizing walkability, much healthier and will help with the obesity epidemic. Not only that, cities don’t have to pay for maintenance of huge number of roads. Once the oil subsidies are gone, we would have plenty of funds to consider the all of the above strategies.
6. If there comes a time when the batteries are fully exausted, as in down to less than 30% capacity, the lithium is recyclable.
