[ExI] How the world collapses

[John Clark]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes 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".
>

Define "define".

  John K Clark










> 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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