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If someone is concerned about using an extra gallon of fuel over the course of a year then maybe they should consider a Prius or a Tesla. Consumers paying for these BOF vehicles are skipping over a huge market of unibody minivans such as the Traverse, Highlander, Explorer, and countless others...

I don’t *think* it’s shit, I know it’s shit. Shutting an engine off at a stop light it stupid, there is no value. Why Ford chooses to install this on certain vehicles while allowing other vehicles to actually function properly does not make sense. The point is the stop start system interferes...

Your comment doesn’t really make sense nor address your original question or my answer. Also who bought a new ride?

Word here is masochist.

Not true, the other new vehicle I’m looking at does not have this tumor attached to it.

By taking too long to restart, and sounding like you broke down. You’d have to be a satanist to purposely want something with auto-start stop, I’ve had a 2.7L F150 WT with it and a rental Malibu that suffered from it. My personal car will be all the way across the intersection at a light before...

No disagreement here, 21st century power plants are few in the US. With that said good luck buying a decent steam turbine that isn’t a pile of cheap engineered to a spec pile of crap. Although I think your source is poorly written. Big difference in cleanliness of a US coal plant with scrubbers...

Again as resident coal lover, there is way too much emphasis on gas turbines to deliver power. Most gas turbines aren’t inside of a nice building other than the small enclosure over them unless your in the deep north. With that said I’ve worked on an outdoor gas unit near Chicago so they can be...

And to that point, it is not intelligent to have less reliable capacity than total needed at peak. Relying on unreliable, or uncontrollable sources of energy is an easy way to get oneself in a mess when an irregular event occurs.

No, it is estimated as full time max load capacity. So in the right conditions of that solar field I specified in the previous post, when all solar cells are functioning at full capacity. I am comparing the performance of both sources at their peak. Is that always the case? Obviously not...

Perhaps Goolag can explain better,

Unless only have one vehicle it can be difficult to keep an easement to the garage, I have 4 vehicles, a motorcycle and my girlfriends car to contend with. I drive something different depending on how I feel. I use the garages when I need to make a repair or clay and wax a vehicle, it would be a...

Half the time I’m using my phone it’s connected to a charger, unless I’m going to wheel around a generator behind my EV then your comparison doesn’t make sense. But I don’t have to take my phone to a dirty stinky dangerous place once a week, and neither do I take my cars. I get gas and I’m...

I think if you get one or the other you win. Either 800 miles of range, which will make recharging speed immaterial as long as it stays at current level. Or 5 minute complete charges which will make range immaterial as long as it stays at current level.

Very interesting, I hope the flaws in the system will be given the necessary attention. Probably also why coal is not a large participant in Texas energy because it is not mined in house whereas nat. gas is available.

Always, that’s why we need solar, nuclear, coal, natural gas, waste burning (screw wind) energy sources all readily available. The benefit of having all is that we can shift to the cheapest source at the time to lower costs to consumers, which power companies already do. Obviously you don’t have...

I agree that’s strongly ‘tabloidy’ but I don’t think top notch reporting exists in any facet today.

Texas is doing rolling blackouts on purpose because they cannot power everyone, it’s not so much the issue of the lines being down it’s that there is not enough power to support the grid. They’re literally shutting off areas and directing power to others on a rotating basis. Not to mention I...

Germany is smart to keep the reliable energy ready to go.

That site is cringe inducing and expands on the lunacy I’ve already detailed on the previous pages. It takes nearly 5 acres of land to produce a single MW of electricity with solar. 🤦 Under perfect conditions, the amount of electricity is tied to the amount of sun at that time of year, solar...