[ExI] How the world collapses

[Adrian Tymes]

On May 27, 2014 10:55 AM, "John Clark" <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Governments have spent billions of dollars to subsidize the photovoltaic
and wind industries, but how many electric cars are actually fueled by
them? I imagine you could count them on the fingers of one hand.

Define "fueled by".  Even if you constrain it to just cars with their own
solar panels directly on the car,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_cars_(with_homologation) gives
more specific examples on homebrews alone.

Add in mass produced electric cars that plug in to stations either solely
powered by PV, or grid tied where there is a nearby PV installation also
grid tied (the typical residential case) and it reaches thousands easily -
as in, "1,000 <= X < 1,000,000".

This is not a complete solution yet, but not all technologies are adopted
as fast as the Internet was.  Consider that good EVs and good PV have only
come on the market recently, while there are over-50-year-old cars still on
the roads.  (Keeping those clean without simply confiscating them has been
an ongoing struggle for decades.  Just ask the regulators.)  Give it time -
or come up with some other line of reasoning than, "it did not instantly
solve everything therefore it must be worthless."
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