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The Climate does change and is changing.What the Democrats termed Global Warming may not exist!

CHINA IS BUILDING BATTERIES THAT NEVER RUN DOWN AND NEVER HAS TO BE RECHARGED. How many times do I have to say this? Cars using these batteries could be on the road in 5 years if we tried.

I've done the math and posted this before let me remind everyone that the only way to replace our fossil fuel powered vehicles with electric ones and keep them charged would be to build many more nuclear power stations. The amount of energy in a gallon of gasoline is tremendous.

I know the problem here. I am trying to discuss complicated technical issues with ignorant hillbillies. Go out and study and work with electronics for 20 or 30 years and then come back and we might be able to hold an intelligent conversation.

white american, I sure hope wiser individuals then you are in charge of fixing our global warming problems.

Electric motors have more torque then a combustible engine and is a lot less complicated and easier to maintain then a combustible engine. A 10 ho electric is equivalent to a 100 hp combustible engine. For batteries, how about one that never runs down and don't have to be charged? China are building those batteries now. I guess you have never heard of rare earth?

A lot of mega machines use electric motors, now there may be a diesel powered generator powering the electric motor.

Proverbs actually is right Spring. We can alter our homes with in years, but it would take decades to install ways to refuel an electric car throughout our entire highway system. The cost of retooling car manufacturing plants, training and certifying mechanics for electric cars, the list could go in. Semi's would have to stay fueled by diesel. The amount of torque required to move a loaded down trailer (at least 1500 foot pounds), is something I can't see an electric motor being able to pull off without a battery the size of a second trailer behind it.

Like most things your either misinformed or complete out of touch. Besides the co2 boogie man is no longer a problem. It can now be converted into ethanol at ambient room tempter using copper solution

Proverbs, You don't know what you are talking about. The actually cost of producing a 220 watt solar panel is about $5.00 or less. You can actually print them on a printed at home.

We can clean up our energy use, however it will take two or three decades to fully separate ourselves from fossil fuel.

Why?

Solar/wind energy isn't ready for prime time. The batteries and inverters have to be replace every 5-10 years, which is expensive and environmentally unfriendly. Solar panels take a huge amount of energy and resources to produce. There needs to be improvements in the design/manufacturing of solar panels.

We don't have the infrastructure to move to hydrogen fueled or electric powered vehicles and it will take years to rebuild the supply structure.

There is no green energy source large enough to completely supply our nations energy needs.

There is an alternative. Fossil fuels produce CO2. Trees converts CO2 to O2. Lets plant more trees.

With solar panels batteries and inverters typically have to be replaced every 5 to 10 years.

You could always go with a bigger system and some systems don't even use batteries. You also don't have to rely 100% on solar. You can have a system supplemented by the grid. Also you could go with a water powered system. Sun or no sun, day or night don't make a difference. You just don't think out your responses very well.

To answer this I will give you a thing to think on.
When you need energy to heat your home, it is during the period of time the sun shines for the least amount of hours.
This has been my main issue with solar. The energy consumption will blast through your reserve battery, and leaving you needing either a supplemental heating or electrical source.
Believe me, if I could not depend on Duke to come fix the lines when a heavy snow knocks over a tree, or as we had happen this summer a violent storm takes out power for a huge portion of Wilkes, I would make the investment. Not dealing with Duke Energy and their seemingly arbitrary meter readings, and rate hikes, would be worth it alone. Doing the research though, the technology just isn't there yet. There is a space demand for your storage battery, the radiant heat waste, battery life span, panel life span.

Even the solar companies say they could not survive without subsidizes

I'm all for getting rid of all subsiding. But coal will still be cheaper.

You can get them cheeper if you know where to look the catch for home systems is the conversion and storage equipment