The only way I think wind and solar have a future is if we get rid of the grid and people produce their own power.
Why get rid of the grid? People already produce their own power.
nuclear energy is stuck in the Cold War.
Nope. Modern plants are more reliable and safer.
There is no development and no new production.
Wrong on both. A new plant was just built in Tennessee and came online in 2016. Two plants are under construction right now in the United States.
Per investment dollar you get the greatest amount of return that makes it the future.
Random number. Argument from randU fallacy. Nuclear plants can be costly, and have risks that people don't like to accept (true, they are illiterate, but that does not change things). You don't get to dictate energy markets. You are not the king.
Wind and solar is on the opposite end of that ratio.
Irrelevant. If people want to buy that form of energy, they are free to do so. You don't get to dictate energy markets.
It cannot be the future it is simply unsustainable.
It is quite sustainable. People are buying solar and wind energy plants.
The only thing that stands in the way of a breeder reactor, that is a reactor that depletes spent fuel rods, is an executive order from Jimmy Carter in April of 1971 that forbids using nuclear waste for any purpose. Once anybody does anything about that the gates will be open.
An executive order can be nullified by another executive order. Not a problem.
it is government dictates that are deciding.
No, it was Jimmy Carter dictats that are deciding. He exceeded his authority. He didn't have authority to meddle with energy markets.
The only thing stopping cars from being fully electric is the battery.
Nope. We have electric cars. They have a range similar to gasoline cars on a single charge.
Once we get a battery with a solid state electrolyte,
Already have 'em. Lithium oxide batteries, lithium metal batteries, common zinc, nicad, and even some lead-acid cells use solid electrolytes. Lithium metal and lithium oxide batteries use a paper layer soaked with electrolyte.
and it's capable of being recharged quickly
Sorry dude. Ohm's law gets in your way. You need to charge the battery of an electric car with the same joules to move the same distance. This is just mechanics. You can't change that. You can't put that many joules into a battery in a short space of time. The wire required would be so thick you could never lift it. There are no contacts capable of handling that kind of current.
If you increase the voltage to reduce the current requirements, you are dealing with several thousand volts. Not a user friendly connection.
Batteries themselves are also a resistor. They only accept a charge so fast. This is known as the internal resistance of the battery. It limits how fast you can charge and discharge it. Currently, the battery with the lowest internal resistance is the lead-acid battery. There is no way to charge even this battery with enough power for an electric car. This battery is also heavy. It is lead, after all.
Lithium batteries have a high internal resistance. Their big advantage is that they are made of light materials. This is ideal for portable electronic devices like cell phones. They are popular in electric cars too in order to save weight, reducing the energy required to move the vehicle.
the day of a gasoline powered car will be at an end.
Not likely. Gasoline has the highest BTU per given volume of any fuel. This makes it a good fuel for small tanks. Diesel oil and kerosene has the highest BTU per given weight. This makes it a good fuel for large aircraft, ships, and trucks.
If you generate electricity with nuclear power that is powering the car with the electricity generated from nuclear power it doesn't have to be mobile.
It takes too long to refuel (recharge) an electric car. That cannot change, even if the car is equipped with lead-acid cells.
We just have to have a much more competent power grid.
Wait...didn't you just say you want to get rid of the electrical grid??
We DO have a well designed electrical grid. A far cry from the days where the grid was susceptible to such blackouts like what hit most of the east coast of the United States due to a single flashover fault. Today's electrical grids are much more resilient, and are necessary for getting power from a power plant to the user. This does not include the SOTC, however, since they do not maintain their electrical grid properly.
the term fossil fuel comes from the concept of digging them out of a rock formation.
Nope. A fossil is an image of an animal or plant in stone. Fossils don't burn.
Natural gas comes out of a rock formation
Nope. Natural gas can be found in swamps, landfills, compost piles, underground, or manufactured by man. It is not associated with any rock formation.
therefore it is a fossil fuel.
Nope. It's a gas. There is no image of a plant or animal possible.
I didn't say it was a fossil.
If you call it a fossil fuel, you are saying it is a fossil.
real lions use electricity generated by an onboard diesel powered generator that is more efficient if it wasn't we would still use steam locomotives we do not.
We still use steam locomotives. I used to drive one myself when I last worked on a railroad. That machine is still in service. Nice little locomotive. It used diesel fuel to fire the boiler. I know several railroads that still use coal fired steam locomotives. We use steam in power plants still too. Nuclear power plants use steam to power the generators. So do oil and coal fired power plants. There are even steamships still plying the waters here and there, including nuclear powered ships.
it is used in absolutely everything it is our lifeblood.
Oil products are very useful. It's a renewable fuel too. So is natural gas.
Coal is used in metal refining.
It is also used as a fuel in running power plants. It is also used in industry as a fuel. Still pretty cheap. It is not only used for smelting iron and other metals, it is also used to make steel.
