EV back then?

[WiltonRanch]

I'm gonna go out on a limb.
It's possible somewhere in the next century or less, fusion will get better and better.
Making today's angst look like whale oil. The future is not in short sighted baloney for the next election win.
But a strong economy today for leading R&D in the future.
Wind and solar for small draw applications. Nuclear and hydro in the meantime. Fossilized solar energy will have to carry the world until then.
Just a thought.

The recent announcement is monumental. They had actuality had other experiments produce viable fusion reactions before but it wasn’t what they were actually experimenting for. So this announcement is findings from an experiment dedicated to fusion producing more energy than put in. It’s proof of concept and all bets are off to how much money will flow in for research and development. Still many years away but a truly new and viable energy source for the future. I wonder though where this puts future funding for solar and wind research. In a decade it won’t be cool like fusion. Does this kill nuclear or will the western world hold the cards close to their chest?

[Partners]

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[biglentil]

Got to wonder. Did Stanley Meyer crack the secret to running a car on water?




Stanley Meyer’s Mysterious Death
On March 21, 1998, Meyer was having lunch at a Cracker Barrel with his brother and two potential Belgian investors. The four clinked their glasses to toast their commitment to uplifting the world, but after taking a sip of his cranberry juice, Meyer clutched his throat, sprang to his feet, and ran outside. Rushing after him, his brother Stephen found him down on his knees, vomiting violently. He quickly muttered his last words, “They poisoned me.”

[AlbertaFarmer5]

This message sounds familiar to a lot of topics lately:

Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda recently caused the climate lobby to blow a fuse by speaking a truth about battery electric vehicles that his fellow auto executives dare not. “Just like the fully autonomous cars that we were all supposed to be driving by now,” Mr. Toyoda said in Thailand, “I think BEVs are just going to take longer to become mainstream than the media would like us to believe.” He added that a “silent majority” in the auto industry share his view, “but they think it’s the trend, so they can’t speak out loudly.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/not-so-fast-on-electric-cars-toyota-biden-subsidies-technical-difficulties-cold-weather-traffic-cyber-11671830734?st=tzhhgsazyt4yvy8

How dare he point out that the emperor has no clothes. After all, according to Chuck, by now, revolutionary new battery technology and limitless free on-site electricity from solar and wind have long since solved all of these problems.

The question is, how far down this dead end do we go before enough speak out?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

What a perfect example of groupthink and herd mentality. Peer pressure worse than what happens in Junior high. We saw it with Covid, and climate change, and EVs, and woke, and Ukraine and a host of other issues. It takes a lot of nerve to stand up against that, and put your professional career, reputation, and even personal life on the line and speak the truth.

But more and more are doing so. The trickle will become an avalanche.

[furrowtickler]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKvtbaDbuDA

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[Guest]

The “high” is wearing off
Reality is settling in finally