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No question that there's going to be a ton of lithium mining, especially early on. Chile/Bolivia/Argentina have quite a bit. China does as well, but I think Australia is the largest known provider. It's going to be messy. But the current situation isn't any better. There will need to be a huge emphasis on reuse/recycling.
Nope. You have to do this a bunch of times, all over the place. It's not quite like drilling a little hole several thousand feet deep and letting the energy stuff come squirting out.
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It doesn't have to make sense. It's now a religion with some people and all they see and hear is what their prophets dispel.
Were you talking Lithium mining or what they are doing to get oil out of the tar sands?
I think China is the major active source. Rumor has it there are locations in Afghanistan and Africa. We have some here too but the tree huggers would absolutely flip is we started digging here.
It's a headline used to get people like you all excited by leaving out the details. It's a typical "Flex Alert" wherein they ask people to reduce electric use during peak hours, which is 4-9 PM. The headline implies people aren't supposed to charge their cars at all during the heatwave.. This is the kind of journalism that has led the country into the state of insanity that it's in.
China's influence in Afghanistan and Africa is not to be ignored, so we're at their mercy there too. This whole damn thing makes absolutely no sense at all.
So you can't drive anywhere if there's a heatwave? Help me understand.
There's a good reason that project (joke?) seems to have disappeared four years ago.
Interesting tangent:
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Absolutely - no question you can generate power from wind. But trying to do it that way on a car makes no sense when you can regen from the wheels instead during braking. Or if you're trying to do it full time, it's just as fruitless as the idea of running constant regen to draw 'free' power from the coasting wheels.Interesting tangent:
Air Driven Generator(Ram air turbine)
A ram air turbine (RAT) is a small turbine that is connected to a hydraulic pump, or electrical generator, installed in an aircraft and used...
Cropdusters use fans in the airstream to power their chemical pumps too.
That's what you would think if you believed that headline. What the idiot who wrote the article didn't explain is that, due to the heatwave, CALISO expects a high load on the grid and they've asked people to reduce the use of appliances during peak hours of 4-9 PM. You can still use them if you want. They are just requestion that people don't use them. Electricity is also very expensive during that time. Most people are using timers to charge their cars and they set it to charge when the rates are cheaper.
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