Comment Re: This is concerning (Score 1) 147
Cool, cool maybe they can use Time Lord technology.
Like I said, get back to me when you hsve a cost effective design that works.
We've done extensive customer research in multiple cities, looking at a variety of powertrains, and the V-8 is always the number-one choice."
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Wall Street couldn't be happier with the new direction... Ford's fortunes are also on the rise, as it's predicting operating profits could grow by as much as 47% this year to $10 billion.
What Detroit seems to be saying is that their market research shows that people who are dumb enough to be climate change deniers are the same people who are dumb enough to prefer driving ICE over EV, and are the same people who are dumb enough to happy when they are ripped off for massive profit margins when they buy a car.
And so there seems to be a short term business opportunity there.
I'm never going back to ICE from EV, but I guess I'm old enough and grumpy enough to enjoy watching fossil fools get ripped off.
It's a pity the current govt is killing so many foreign civilians in forever wars to try and keep gas prices down though.
Red states and maga people don't have a problem with renewables.
Funny that I keep running into MAGA fossil fuel investors who have a problem with renewables cause it cuts the value of their investment, and MAGA fossil fuel workers who have a problem with renewables because they are worried about the jobs they are skilled for disappearing. Funny how the head of MAGA keeps reversing Biden-era approvals of privately-funded renewable projects.
We have a problem with 'only' renewables because we like the idea of still having power through a long outage.
There are many strategies to handle Dunkelflauten. If you don't know what they are, then that makes you way more ignorant than the average Electrical Engineer. If you think that nuclear with it's inability to regulate power generation is a cost-effective strategy to deal with Dunkelflauten, then you are drifting from ignorance into outright stupidity.
it's unlikely any of you has a larger residential solar setup than I do. I'm also on my second EV
Ah, the dick-swinging. This is slashdot - it's full of electrical engineers managing grid-scale installations. Your "large" residential setup is a rounding error. It's clear you have no idea what the grid-scale issues are for a renewable-only grid, because you keep banging on about the solved problems.
And I proudly and happily voted -for- Trump twice
If you are happy with what Trump has done, then you must hate the US and it's people quite a lot. Just one more reason you are in here recommending strategies that would give americans the most expensive electricity imaginable.
"You don't go out and kick a mad dog. If you have a mad dog with rabies, you take a gun and shoot him." -- Pat Robertson, TV Evangelist, about Muammar Kadhafy