To date, electric cars have either been too expensive or incapable of going very far (or fast) before needing another charge. In short, impractical and uneconomical. That may be changing and changing fast. The race to come out with a truly affordable electric car is on and it’s hot and getting hotter. Eighteen months ago there were already 30 different electric car companies burning up investor dollars in search of this battery operated holy grail.
If you accept that past is prologue when it comes to human behavior then we have all the data we need to know, and not just guess at, how much additional power we need each year over the next couple of decades if not beyond – 15,000 megawatts (“MW”) as it turns out.
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The last weekend before the recent presidential election, a San Francisco Chronicle interview found Mr. Obama stating, “Build the coal plants if they want, but it will bankrupt them if they do.” Not surprisingly, the conservative herd quickly wolfed down this final slab of red meat and lept to the conclusion that the [...]
