Nanowatts from kilobucks.Huh! They discovered the secret to Galt's motor!
Ayn Rand is now right about everything!
https://scitechdaily.com/clean-ener...hnology-to-harvest-electricity-from-thin-air/
Nanowatts from kilobucks.Huh! They discovered the secret to Galt's motor!
Ayn Rand is now right about everything!
https://scitechdaily.com/clean-ener...hnology-to-harvest-electricity-from-thin-air/
Hi,That will continue and within a year or two, EVs will actually be cheaper for comparable vehicles. Tesla isn't just redesigning cars, they're redesigning the entire manufacturing process and squeezing out costs. ICE vehicles will carry a premium price and customers will pay that premium to avoid perceived disadvantages of an EV, to get longer range, to compensate for a lack of charge infrastructure, and so on. In a decade ICE vehicles will probably become somewhat of an oddity. Of course they'll be on the road for decades long after the last one rolls off an assembly line.
The dynamic I'm curious about is the impact and future of gas prices. Decreasing demand for gas, due to increased EV adoption, should lower gas prices in the short run. Lower gas prices, if they last, would depress EV adoption. But then oil refineries will shut down, the least efficient ones will go first, and this will shift the supply-demand curve. As gas volume and new capital investment goes down, gasoline prices might actually increase and thereby accelerate EV adoption.
I'm stunned every time I see a new gas station go up without a charging area as an integral part of it. Everyone says they make all their money off the retail in the store rather than the gas, and so attracting EV cars is an obvious way to "trap" people in your store for a while. Maybe they think they can transition from pumps to chargers "quickly" when it suits them? It seems like a big opportunity for a national chain to become known as always having chargers. I'm looking at you, Buc-ees!Hi,
That makes me wonder. Maybe soon it will be harder to find a gas station than a charging station.
But what do we do about the antique cars. We have antique car shows in our town sometimes.
Are you familiar with the diffusion of innovation? A plot of cumulative adoption versus time typically follows a well know S-curve pattern. To make big money off innovation you need to predict that long before the "S" begins, not while it's underway. Consider how CDs overtook vinyl for reproducing audio. Anyone who looked into it saw the clear advantages of the new technology and it was one of the fastest adoptions in history. But by that time, there were already commercial products available. Predicting it 5 years earlier might have made you some cash.It struck me this morning,
Were engineers on here in the most part .
Were talking about what's going to happen
By definition if we were good at predicting future , we would be multi millionaires..
Ah well. .
Back to the day job. .
Parking lot space has a value and cost all its own, and produces income as well. If that space is tied up by EVs a half-hour at a time, it is producing less income than the quick in-and-out of non-EV-charging customers.Everyone says they make all their money off the retail in the store rather than the gas, and so attracting EV cars is an obvious way to "trap" people in your store for a while.
Last February I drove on Interstate 35 near New Braunfels, Texas and they already had perhaps a dozen Tesla chargers.It seems like a big opportunity for a national chain to become known as always having chargers. I'm looking at you, Buc-ees!
Hi,I'm stunned every time I see a new gas station go up without a charging area as an integral part of it. Everyone says they make all their money off the retail in the store rather than the gas, and so attracting EV cars is an obvious way to "trap" people in your store for a while. Maybe they think they can transition from pumps to chargers "quickly" when it suits them? It seems like a big opportunity for a national chain to become known as always having chargers. I'm looking at you, Buc-ees!
Hi,It struck me this morning,
Were engineers on here in the most part .
Were talking about what's going to happen
By definition if we were good at predicting future , we would be multi millionaires..
Ah well. .
Back to the day job. .
Some of us are multi-millionaires.. (retirement portfolios) but being a millionaire is not what it used to be.It struck me this morning,
Were engineers on here in the most part .
Were talking about what's going to happen
By definition if we were good at predicting future , we would be multi millionaires..
Ah well. .
Back to the day job. .
Buc-ees had Tesla chargers? That's awesome. They seem to be a more innovative chain and I'm glad they're "on it".Last February I drove on Interstate 35 near New Braunfels, Texas and they already had perhaps a dozen Tesla chargers.
However, this amount still pales with the over 100 gas pumps
I did say safer and I totally agree. The cheap ion technology batteries on the market today from places like China are a ticking time bomb. Our intuition about flammable fuels like gasoline helps to moderate incorrect storage, usage and refueling issues. We seem to lack that common intuition of danger with modern, sometimes volatile battery types even as power density increases to that of fossil fuels.I suspect without knowing that any high energy storage method is never going to be quite safe. That includes gasoline when you think about it. The more energy stored the more violent the reaction when something goes wrong.
Hi,I suspect without knowing that any high energy storage method is never going to be quite safe. That includes gasoline when you think about it. The more energy stored the more violent the reaction when something goes wrong.
https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/...on-or-a-financial-disaster.107598/post-824302There are many positives but I personally believe room-temperature super conductivity will also be one of the most dangerous things we will create. Pencil sized devices could contain the energy of a several sticks of explosive without the chemical markers. Most of the large directed energy weapons will be possible to build on a man sized scale.MrChips said:
I believe room-temperature super conductivity will appear at some point in the future.
That is going to radically alter motor and battery technology and everything else we do electrically and electronically.
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