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Hydrogen Fuel Cells and probably more widespread PHEVs. I am unconvinced by the case for hydrogen fuel cells or PHEVs. 10-million cars with 200lbs of Li-ion b
by kiba 5y ago
Hydrogen Fuel Cells and probably more widespread PHEVs.
I am unconvinced by the case for hydrogen fuel cells or PHEVs.
10-million cars with 200lbs of Li-ion batteries each would save more energy from our transportation network than 2-million cars with 1000lbs of Li-ion batteries each.
The correct answer is the reduction of cars. Taking 10 million cars off the road and switching to public transit and higher density suburban and urban planning would save more energy in the long run.
At this point. Elon is incredibly anti-progress.
The best car is no car.
- dragontamer 5y agoMr. Musk was pretty integral in his role of killing the California High Speed Rail project. He created a fake solution, the Hyperloop, to steal hype away, and then never built the Hyperloop. Thereby killing the mass-transit solution of California. ------ I stand by my assertion. Mr. Musk is no longer useful for the environmental cause. He is decidedly anti-progress at this point. A few years ago it was somewhat ambiguous, but now its clear.
- diebeforei485 5y agoNonsense. California High Speed Rail practically killed itself.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> California High Speed Rail practically killed itself. Except it's still actively being built.
- dragontamer 5y agoI hope you're right and I wish the project the best. I'm no where near California, but I think rail (and high-speed rail in particular) is one of the most efficient means of transportation devised, and should be deployed and supported. In any case, Mr. Musk has not been helpful to the cause at all.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> > Except it's still actively being built. > I hope you're right If I’m not, the California High Speed Rail Authority is doing some next-level gaslighting. https://buildhsr.com/ https://buildhsr.com/
- diebeforei485 5y agoRight. Madera to Bakersfield by 2035. This project is a joke and everyone knows it - choosing the route for political reasons, appointing politically connected sham contractors like Tutor Perini, declining the SNCF proposal to run this along I-5 instead, etc. Texas will likely get its high-speed rail well before we do.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Madera to Bakersfield by 2035. The current target, per the most recent business plan, is Merced to Bakersfield by the end of the decade, Silicon Valley to Central Valley (SF to Bakersfield) by 2031, and the Phase 1 system (SF to LA) by 2033. There is also work with Brightline West (the private developer of a Victorville to Las Vegas line) to jointly extend that line so that it interconnects with the Phase 1 system in Southern California, forming a combined SF-LA-LV system. > Texas will likely get its high-speed rail well before we do. Well, I mean, its a shorter and easier line with an earlier current planned operation date, with fewer bookend and station projects, so that wouldn’t be surprising, but they keep pushing out the construction start date while California keeps building, so I wouldn’t bet on it.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Mr. Musk was pretty integral in his role of killing the California High Speed Rail project. It’s not even approximately dead, so Musk having been integral in killing it doesn't seem to be either true or meaningful. As for creating the false impression it was killed, that was mostly Newsome’s announcement shortly after taking office that described no substantive changes (it literally boiled down to “we’re going to keep building the parts we have funding to build, keep doing planning/EIRs/etc. on the rest, and not do construction on parts not currently funded until construction funding is secured”) but was widely misinterpreted, not Musk, that was responsible for that.