I don't know what you are paying for fuel, but in my state it is below $3/gallon. $150/month for fuel means around 20,000 miles per year, and it is way more than $200 lease would allow.
Leaf charge time from 110V outlet is 21h. Most people sleep a night and don't drive 24h/day, and it may be enough time unless you need to charge it from 0% to 100% for next morning trip.
You can as well say that pigs can fly if you wish, and it may be true in some special circumstances, and I don't care. But it sounds quite odd, and to be taken seriously you need to provide some serious explanation.
You can't predict everything, it is impossible. You may build 100 meter flood wall against reactor at unreasonable cost, but next time it maybe not cunami, something else, like unnoticed construction defect or operator error, or inability to provide power for whatever reason, or anything. You learn from past errors, and errors are way too expensive for nuclear plants. How about buying liability insurance in free market for nuclear power plant? It doesn't exist, no plant in the world would be built if it would had to buy commercial liability insurance at real cost.
It is isn't matter of love-hate, it is just economics. Nuclear power is too expensive even with huge government subsidies as liability insurance waiver. No new nuclear power plants are build in the US for many years, nobody needs them at that price and no plants are build just because of love. You may as well build solar plants with some form of expensive energy storage, I doubt it would be much more expensive.
The problem with these experimental reactors is well known for decades. They don't produce energy at reasonable cost. You need to pay a lot of extra to operate them and process nuclear waste into another type of waste. You may as well dream about thermonuclear, it should be commercialized eventually.
Saudi proven oil reserves are estimated to be 268 billion barrels. Undiscovered reserves estimated 90 billion barrels. Daily production 9-12 million barrels. That means many decades of production, and Saudi is not the only country with wast reserves.
No, it doesn't cost too much to extract. It cost too much only for peak fields that provide surplus to oil markets. It is still few dollars a barrel for fields on the shore in Middle East. It may be a bit more than decades ago, but still many times less then $2/gallon. When demand drops and expensive fields will become irrelevant, the price will go down too unless somehow OPEC monopoly will get revived, which is not possible. $100/kWh batteries that can charge fast enough is exactly what can make EVs to succeed. ICEs become too expensive and inconvenient at that price point even with $2/gallon gas.
You can buy golf cart for even less and they can legally drive on low speed streets where I live. But you can't pretend they are real cars, they are just that, a form of local transportation around the neighborhood for people who can't use bicycle. The same is with Leaf, you need to go over 100 miles some day and you have a headache. Will I be able to borrow my partner's car? No she just went to friends in other city. Maybe rental car is available? If you ever tried to live with rental cars you should know that they are not readily available during holidays, conventions, or just off-business hours. Just like that joke of charging network at Nissan dealers, closed off business hours. So far, the only semi-usable EV costs around $100k and there is nothing green or economically sensible in $100k cars.
Distribution, yes, but when you need long distance HVDC may be just cheaper. Or the only realistic option in cases like no phase in sync or underwater cables.
This sounds like fantasy from people who don't understand Ohm's law. Tesla's Powerwall voltage is around 400V. You have nothing to do with such voltage in the house, it is too dangerous. You need DC-DC or DC-AC converter to reduce voltage first, and you already have DC-AC for grid connection, and it is simpler. Low voltage DC is used for lightning sometimes, like older halogen bulbs or outdoors. It may be nice to have extra sockets around the house for low power electronics, but there are no widespread standards for it, and it would be just waste of money for extra lines and outlets. You would need much more copper for low voltage/high amperage lines.
It is subsidy to utility that they only paying retail price at peak time. Net metering customers create more value for grid than they take. It has been proven by numerous studies, go educate yourself. Utilities hate it because it threatens their business model.
And what do you think grid people do when huge nuclear reactor is stopped for unplanned reason? They need to have exactly the same reserve power ready, and it is much more power than some wind turbine. You even need to be 100% sure to be able to provide power for stopped reactor cooling one or other way, or it may end up just like in Fukushima.
You are speaking about some weird racist stereotypes that Asians are this or that, somewhat inferior just because in their culture education is valued more than average American society members do. You can't finish medical school and become a decent doctor without having a good memory and memorizing lots and lots of possibly boring information over many years, and work habits are formed in elementary school. Extra fun activities would not help you here at all. If you look at respected technical schools where performance can be obvious and easier to measure, they all stick with merit based approach, where grades are most important. The same is in top European universities like Oxford and Cambridge. All these "holistic" admission systems are nothing more but cover up for racism, plutocracy and de facto cast system. Neither their admission officers are somewhat superior or capable to see beyond the amount of donation or their weird oversimplified stereotypes that have nothing to do with real life and contradict all scientific studies. In fact admission officer job is low paying job, just a bit above minimum wage.
Calling people who invest money in your pure economy "debt vultures" and vilifying everybody who is able to manage money better than you and has more as a result, is nothing new in this world. This always leads to nothing more but wild fights for power and freedom to steal from each other.
You wrong. Most common PV is silicone now and they are less than $1/W. CIGS is promising and competitive right now, but it didn't taken over whole market and it is unclear if it ever will as silicone PV price is dropping, and other thin film technologies exist too. The United States Geological Survey estimates gallium reserves to exceed 1 million tonnes - not exactly rare, even if current price doesn't make gallium mines viable. Most gallium is wasted and can be recycled if demand gets higher, and gallium price is actually going down for the last few years.
It is obvious that without US interference Kuwait as a country would have been goner long time ago and Saudi would follow. And you are trying to deny that it has nothing to do with oil?
"German borders" are highly related to oil do. Putin would not have resources to revise border lines in Europe and revive Cold War without money from oil bubble.
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I don't know what you are paying for fuel, but in my state it is below $3/gallon. $150/month for fuel means around 20,000 miles per year, and it is way more than $200 lease would allow.
Leaf charge time from 110V outlet is 21h. Most people sleep a night and don't drive 24h/day, and it may be enough time unless you need to charge it from 0% to 100% for next morning trip.
She wasn't ordered to slander the victim and she would not be getting any mistrial or whatever for not slandering her. That is how the law works.
It is well known, but it is not WWII anymore, who needs dogfights or fist fights when rocket launch distances can be hundreds of miles?
You can as well say that pigs can fly if you wish, and it may be true in some special circumstances, and I don't care. But it sounds quite odd, and to be taken seriously you need to provide some serious explanation.
You can't predict everything, it is impossible. You may build 100 meter flood wall against reactor at unreasonable cost, but next time it maybe not cunami, something else, like unnoticed construction defect or operator error, or inability to provide power for whatever reason, or anything. You learn from past errors, and errors are way too expensive for nuclear plants. How about buying liability insurance in free market for nuclear power plant? It doesn't exist, no plant in the world would be built if it would had to buy commercial liability insurance at real cost.
It is isn't matter of love-hate, it is just economics. Nuclear power is too expensive even with huge government subsidies as liability insurance waiver. No new nuclear power plants are build in the US for many years, nobody needs them at that price and no plants are build just because of love. You may as well build solar plants with some form of expensive energy storage, I doubt it would be much more expensive.
The problem with these experimental reactors is well known for decades. They don't produce energy at reasonable cost. You need to pay a lot of extra to operate them and process nuclear waste into another type of waste.
You may as well dream about thermonuclear, it should be commercialized eventually.
No way hydroelectric has any similar risk, planned or not. It is not reasonable to compare.
Saudi proven oil reserves are estimated to be 268 billion barrels. Undiscovered reserves estimated 90 billion barrels. Daily production 9-12 million barrels. That means many decades of production, and Saudi is not the only country with wast reserves.
No, it doesn't cost too much to extract. It cost too much only for peak fields that provide surplus to oil markets. It is still few dollars a barrel for fields on the shore in Middle East. It may be a bit more than decades ago, but still many times less then $2/gallon. When demand drops and expensive fields will become irrelevant, the price will go down too unless somehow OPEC monopoly will get revived, which is not possible.
$100/kWh batteries that can charge fast enough is exactly what can make EVs to succeed. ICEs become too expensive and inconvenient at that price point even with $2/gallon gas.
When EVs are going actually succeed, gas will be heading to $2, not $4.
You can buy golf cart for even less and they can legally drive on low speed streets where I live. But you can't pretend they are real cars, they are just that, a form of local transportation around the neighborhood for people who can't use bicycle. The same is with Leaf, you need to go over 100 miles some day and you have a headache. Will I be able to borrow my partner's car? No she just went to friends in other city. Maybe rental car is available? If you ever tried to live with rental cars you should know that they are not readily available during holidays, conventions, or just off-business hours. Just like that joke of charging network at Nissan dealers, closed off business hours. So far, the only semi-usable EV costs around $100k and there is nothing green or economically sensible in $100k cars.
Distribution, yes, but when you need long distance HVDC may be just cheaper. Or the only realistic option in cases like no phase in sync or underwater cables.
This sounds like fantasy from people who don't understand Ohm's law. Tesla's Powerwall voltage is around 400V. You have nothing to do with such voltage in the house, it is too dangerous. You need DC-DC or DC-AC converter to reduce voltage first, and you already have DC-AC for grid connection, and it is simpler.
Low voltage DC is used for lightning sometimes, like older halogen bulbs or outdoors. It may be nice to have extra sockets around the house for low power electronics, but there are no widespread standards for it, and it would be just waste of money for extra lines and outlets. You would need much more copper for low voltage/high amperage lines.
Actually long distance high voltage lines are often DC.
Nobody is obliged to live in these tiny sections, they are not prisons. You can move most of the time.
It is subsidy to utility that they only paying retail price at peak time.
Net metering customers create more value for grid than they take. It has been proven by numerous studies, go educate yourself.
Utilities hate it because it threatens their business model.
And what do you think grid people do when huge nuclear reactor is stopped for unplanned reason? They need to have exactly the same reserve power ready, and it is much more power than some wind turbine. You even need to be 100% sure to be able to provide power for stopped reactor cooling one or other way, or it may end up just like in Fukushima.
You are speaking about some weird racist stereotypes that Asians are this or that, somewhat inferior just because in their culture education is valued more than average American society members do. You can't finish medical school and become a decent doctor without having a good memory and memorizing lots and lots of possibly boring information over many years, and work habits are formed in elementary school. Extra fun activities would not help you here at all. If you look at respected technical schools where performance can be obvious and easier to measure, they all stick with merit based approach, where grades are most important. The same is in top European universities like Oxford and Cambridge. All these "holistic" admission systems are nothing more but cover up for racism, plutocracy and de facto cast system. Neither their admission officers are somewhat superior or capable to see beyond the amount of donation or their weird oversimplified stereotypes that have nothing to do with real life and contradict all scientific studies. In fact admission officer job is low paying job, just a bit above minimum wage.
Calling people who invest money in your pure economy "debt vultures" and vilifying everybody who is able to manage money better than you and has more as a result, is nothing new in this world. This always leads to nothing more but wild fights for power and freedom to steal from each other.
It failed on it's promise to exchange USD to gold in 1971, and USD was devalued. Some may call it a bankruptcy, just like in Argentina.
You wrong. Most common PV is silicone now and they are less than $1/W. CIGS is promising and competitive right now, but it didn't taken over whole market and it is unclear if it ever will as silicone PV price is dropping, and other thin film technologies exist too. The United States Geological Survey estimates gallium reserves to exceed 1 million tonnes - not exactly rare, even if current price doesn't make gallium mines viable. Most gallium is wasted and can be recycled if demand gets higher, and gallium price is actually going down for the last few years.
It is obvious that without US interference Kuwait as a country would have been goner long time ago and Saudi would follow. And you are trying to deny that it has nothing to do with oil?
"German borders" are highly related to oil do. Putin would not have resources to revise border lines in Europe and revive Cold War without money from oil bubble.