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So, IMHO, here's the future: personal travel vehicle...runs on batteries, no roads/highways required: Lift Aircraft
Within five years every manufacturer will have at least a couple all-electric models and the infrastructure will be much better. Car makers are notoriously slow to change but Tesla has shown that people will buy electric cars, and lots of them.
Teslas stock will soon plummet to typical auto maker P/Es and Elon will take to Twitter to try to pump the stock value.
So, IMHO, here's the future: personal travel vehicle...runs on batteries, no roads/highways required: Lift Aircraft
Easy solution: don’t live in a city if you can avoid it. It’s an epidemiological nightmare now, and for years to come, not to mention cramped, noisy, filthy, and super expensive. I lived in a city of 12 million for nearly a decade 20 years ago, and for me the negatives far outweighed the positives even then, let alone now.I am more after the concept of cities over crowded of cars that occupy 4 times the amount of space and use 4 times the amount of energy that actually is necessary for private transport.
I live less than 20 miles away from the biggest nuclear plant in Europe. I does not give me a good feeling. Might come one day when it will blow up and everything will be gone: my house, my job, my neighborhoud, maybe our lifes.That’s only because frau Merkel is not very bright. You could do what France does and use nuclear. In fact, with German engineering you could do it better, cheaper, and safer than anyone in the world. Instead you got taken in by the most transparent scam imaginable.
They should have had fossil fuel plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima.Would living next to a fossil fuel plant make you feel any better?
Easy solution: don’t live in a city if you can avoid it. It’s an epidemiological nightmare now, and for years to come, not to mention cramped, noisy, filthy, and super expensive. I lived in a city of 12 million for nearly a decade 20 years ago, and for me the negatives far outweighed the positives even then, let alone now.
I live less than 20 miles away from the biggest nuclear plant in Europe. I does not give me a good feeling. Might come one day when it will blow up and everything will be gone: my house, my job, my neighborhoud, maybe our lifes.
Maybe nuclear plants are good in sparsely populated areas.
That’s not a fact at all. Human population should start declining by 2050 or so, and the decline will accelerate rapidly as fertility drops due to higher levels of independence for females brought on by the higher standard of living / lower poverty. Anthropologists are pretty consistent in this prediction.Yeah well, I lived in a 500 people village for 23 years, I know the joys of it. But that does not change the fact that urban population will grow in decades to come, particularly in developing countries, with enormous populations. And as long as they improve their quality of life, they also want a car and the rest of goodies of modern standards That does nothing but amplify the fact that energetically, the current private transport concept is barely scalable at global level.
Nuclear “waste” is being used to feed sodium nuclear reactors in Russia as I write this. Not only that, but sodium based design does not use water in the core, and therefore can’t produce hydrogen or positive void coefficient like Chernobyl. Amazing what you can do with 21st century tech.Not to mention the problem of nuclear waste is far from being solved, at least now, for some people is not that much of an issue to leave it to future generations to come:
https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/nuclear-waste-pilesscientists-seek-best/98/i12
Nuclear “waste” is being used to feed sodium nuclear reactors in Russia as I write this. Not only that, but sodium based design does not use water in the core, and therefore can’t produce hydrogen or positive void coefficient like Chernobyl. Amazing what you can do with 21st century tech.
Sounds like an eyesore.No horizon without a windmill. And they built new ones on and on.
That’s not a fact at all. Human population should start declining by 2050 or so, and the decline will accelerate rapidly as fertility drops due to higher levels of independence for females brought on by the higher standard of living / lower poverty. Anthropologists are pretty consistent in this prediction.
I like the freedom of not going to the gas station.I like the freedom of the 5 minutes-at-the-gas-station. I could not bear the anxiety of the range, the duration of the charge.
What's mind blowing though is that if you actually poll people, hardly anyone realizes that averaged out, humanity is living better than ever, COVID notwithstanding. There have been dramatic, staggering reductions in extreme poverty, malnutrition, dramatic advances with fighting disease (vaccine for Ebola was announced the other day, nobody even noticed; COVID vaccine was developed over the weekend directly from genome, the rest of the time was spent testing it), dramatic advances in pharma, communications, access to capital and tech, dramatic reductions in violence, and so on and so forth all the way down the list.Didn’t mention population growth, but improved life standards for the existing one in certain countries. Which hopefully will continue far beyond 2050.