Comments on: If all the vehicles are electric, where will the energy come from? https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/ Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/#comment-943940 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 16:23:16 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34087#comment-943940 A very clever company name: “an endeavor with no end.” As an inveterate punster (and a military “veterate”), I can appreciate it.

I’m not sure about the concept, however. It seems likely that most of those oil/gas wells are not going to yield substantial heat, because they are not deep enough.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/#comment-943809 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 18:21:25 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34087#comment-943809 The people of Huntington Beach would like an alternative to offshore drilling of oil as soon as possible, please. Spills are interfering with their surfing.

]]> By: Doug https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/#comment-943764 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 07:19:52 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34087#comment-943764 In reply to Christopher Winter.

Yes, I’ve been following Ad Astra for years now. Mars in 3 months that is incredible.

]]> By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/#comment-943738 Mon, 04 Oct 2021 02:00:07 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34087#comment-943738 Development of such nuclear rockets would be a good thing, in my opinion. I regret not seeing a NERVA-derived design flying.

Franklin Chang-Diaz’s VASIMR thruster also has potential. It recently completed an 88-hour test without problems. Ideally it would be powered by a nuclear reactor.

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2021/07/23/vasimr-vx-200ss-plasma-rocket-completes-record-88-hour-high-power-endurance-test/

]]> By: doug https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/#comment-943706 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 16:42:16 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34087#comment-943706 Oh, absolutely. Even if it wasn’t more expensive I’m still opposed to using nuclear reactors , for one thing they take too long to build and we don’t have time for that, secondly Fukushima, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, and thirdly radioactive waste.

This however, https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/03/world/nuclear-powered-rocket-scn-spc-intl/index.html, is a great use of nuclear energy – with it we might actually be able to do manned missions to the outer planets should we so desire. 🙂

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/#comment-943695 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 11:21:18 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34087#comment-943695 In reply to doug.

I remember that.

On cost, it will cost less than nuclear no matter what!

]]> By: doug https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/#comment-943651 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 01:54:52 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34087#comment-943651 I’ve been watching them ever since they launched. Under the previous AB government (Rachel Notley’s NDP) Eavor started a successful test project to prove their technology. To me this (again assuming it scales) the most interesting things about their tech is that the fluids are completely encased in pipe so no leaking into the watershed and as they are not doing any fracking then no earthquake potential. It’s base load power so no need for batteries. I don’t know the costs but as I like to tell people cost really doesn’t matter when you are saving the planet. If climate change gets out of control, and I suspect it will given human nature and politics, there won’t be any economy to save.

I don’t know if you remember that post I did, somewhat facetiously, on the old blog about taking influential climate change deniers out and stringing them up from the nearest lamp post (boy did that upset a lot of people 🙂 ) but as things have only got much worse over the decade since then I’m beginning to think we need to do something to stop their influence. I look at Manchin who makes $500K/yr from his company investing in coal and what does he get – chair of the very committee, Energy and Natural Resources Committee, that is responsible for greening of the energy industry. That is such a fucked up system and I think it would be naïve to think he won’t do anything to block any legislation that would hurt the coal industry.

Anyway I’m 72 and won’t live to see the worst of what’s coming, so I’m grateful for that. Hope all is well with you and the family.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/#comment-943644 Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:24:25 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34087#comment-943644 In reply to doug.

Very interesting idea.

]]> By: doug https://gregladen.com/blog/2021/10/02/if-all-the-vehicles-are-electric-where-will-the-energy-come-from/#comment-943638 Sat, 02 Oct 2021 22:44:31 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34087#comment-943638 you have depleted and abandoned oil and gas wells all across the states. If proven out – and they already have a working plant in AB, this company’s (eavor.com) technology alone could produce a substantial amount of the power you currently use by making use of those deep holes.

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