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I wonder what the environmental impact would be if we covered the nation with enough train tracks and rail service to supplant air travel, and just how much of the country would need to be covered with inefficient wind turbines and solar panels to power the trains and electric vehicles we're supposed to be driving in 10-years?
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yeah I saw your teleporter. It can only teleport you to where you are.Originally posted by rogue06 View Postroguetech already has teleporters.
And yes they work.
Though we're still working on getting them to work long range.
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We can just use flying trains!Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostWhen we're building safer bullets (Remember Joyselin Elders?) we can also make waterproof floating high speed trains!
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And how many railroad crossings slowing traffic and hitting impatient drivers?Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostThat's what
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people like AOC live in cities where you have subways and trains and buses and it is actually hard to get around with a car. They think the entire country is like that and don't have a clue about the logistics of how people would get around elsewhere without cars. Maybe they can bring back horses? Oh wait, methane farts. Nope. Not green enough.Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
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Forget about methane farts the world of horse and buggy times had streets befouled with equine poop.Originally posted by Sparko View Post
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When a better technology comes along and is embraced, the changeover happens pretty quick. The change from horses to automobiles seemed to happen in a decade or two once the car was able to be mass produced at a reasonable cost. There was no need to legislate getting rid of horses to clean up the streets. No "We are going to take your horses away and you have to buy a car" before they were even able to produce them in a cost effective manner.Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
The same will happen with electric cars. When they are cheap enough and efficient enough, people will buy them, and infrastructure to support them will pop up. There is no reason to force the issue as though the sky was falling. The world is getting "greener" but it will do so because it is profitable and the technology works, not because some idiot politicians say it has to happen in 10 years and try to force it with laws.
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Originally posted by Starlight View Post
What a nutty article. Do you actually believe this stuff?!
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Still very busy with the job, but here's how much of the US you'd have to cover to cover all of your power requirements. All the batteries needed to store the energy to make the power delivery constant would be fitted within a single pixel of that image.Originally posted by Mountain Man
Its a small corner of Arizona or Texas.
Gotta go.
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Gonna need a bit more substantiation than this.Originally posted by Leonhard View PostStill very busy with the job, but here's how much of the US you'd have to cover to cover all of your power requirements. All the batteries needed to store the energy to make the power delivery constant would be fitted within a single pixel of that image.
Its a small corner of Arizona or Texas.
Gotta go.
Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by PetraComment
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post"The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; OrthodoxyComment
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Hey we are doing Ok...
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There are presently 56,000 wind turbines in the States.
https://www.awea.org/wind-101/basics...ts-at-a-glanceLast edited by seer; 02-08-2019, 07:18 PM.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
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One estimate I read suggested that we would need as many as 4-million turbines to meet the current power needs of the US. That's a lot of freakin' turbines!Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by PetraComment
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Glad to see ya.Originally posted by Leonhard View PostStill very busy with the job, but here's how much of the US you'd have to cover to cover all of your power requirements. All the batteries needed to store the energy to make the power delivery constant would be fitted within a single pixel of that image.
Its a small corner of Arizona or Texas.
Gotta go.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --TassmanComment
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