You are stupid or extremely unknowledgeable about how electricity is generated or batteries are made. They are a product of fossil fuel burning generation. Your "clean energy use" is second or third hand to the generation of the power and it is with resultant loss of efficient use of such. Windmills? Solar? Hydro is a choice but cannot replace the most efficient which is NUCLEAR. Nuclear electric generation has PROVEN to be the most efficient and SAFEST method of electric generation, so crawl out from under your school desk and come into the present.

Sent to me by a friend:

Something to ponder.

Dennis


WELCOME TO TOMORROW


THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE MOST OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WILL BECOME REALITY IN THE NEXT 10-20 YEARS. MANY OF US WON’T SEE THE CHANGES, BUT OUR KIDS AND GRAN - KIDS PROBABLY WILL.

WELCOME TO TOMORROW......!

1- The basic auto repair shops will disappear. Read on to know why.

2- A gasoline engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has 20. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are repaired only by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric motor.

3- Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots

4- Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a car wash, and your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor!

5- Gas pumps will go away.

6- Street corners will have meters that dispense electricity. Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started in the developed world.

7- Smart major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new plants that build only electric cars.

8-Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for oil will stop. So say goodbye to OPEC! The middle-east is in trouble

9- Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and then they use and will sell it back to the grid. The grid stores it and dispenses it to industries that are high electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla roof?

10- A baby of today will see personal cars only in museums. The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle.

11- In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who would have thought of that ever happening?

12- What happened to Kodak and Polaroid will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years ... and most people don't see it coming.

13- Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later, you would never take pictures on film again? With today’s smart phones, who even has a camera these days?

14- Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years.

15- It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

16- Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.

17- Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

18- UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world! Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.

19- Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties. Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that coming.

20- Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go-player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.

21- In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM's, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future , (what a thought!) only omniscient specialists will remain.

22- Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, it’s 4 times more accurate than human nurses.

23- Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

24- Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next 2 years, the entire industry will start to be disrupted. You won’t want to own a car any ’more as you will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.

25- You will not need to park it, you will pay only for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving. The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.

26- This will change our cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can transform former parking spaces into green parks.

27- About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles; with autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles That will save a million lives plus worldwide each year.

28- Most traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. They will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

29- Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in their vehicles starting this year with the 2019 models, using all electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out hybrid models.

30- Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla and they should be. Look at all the companies offering all electric vehicles. That was unheard of, only a few years ago.

31- Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the costs will become cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.

32- Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will abandon their towers to move far away to more beautiful affordable locations.

33- Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity.

34- Cities will have much cleaner air as well.

35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.

36- Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact. And it’s just getting ramped up.

37- Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy.

38- Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it.It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any Disease. There are dozens of phone apps out there right now for health

WELCOME TO TOMORROW – some of it actually arrived a few years ago.

And I'm still trying to figure out how to use my cell phone!!

Sent to me by a friend:

Something to ponder.

Dennis


WELCOME TO TOMORROW


THERE IS REASON TO BELIEVE MOST OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WILL BECOME REALITY IN THE NEXT 10-20 YEARS. MANY OF US WON’T SEE THE CHANGES, BUT OUR KIDS AND GRAN - KIDS PROBABLY WILL.

WELCOME TO TOMORROW......!

1- The basic auto repair shops will disappear. Read on to know why.

2- A gasoline engine has 20,000 individual parts. An electrical motor has 20. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are repaired only by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric motor.

3- Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots

4- Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a car wash, and your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor!

5- Gas pumps will go away.

6- Street corners will have meters that dispense electricity. Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started in the developed world.

7- Smart major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new plants that build only electric cars.

8-Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for oil will stop. So say goodbye to OPEC! The middle-east is in trouble

9- Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and then they use and will sell it back to the grid. The grid stores it and dispenses it to industries that are high electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla roof?

10- A baby of today will see personal cars only in museums. The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle.

11- In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who would have thought of that ever happening?

12- What happened to Kodak and Polaroid will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years ... and most people don't see it coming.

13- Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later, you would never take pictures on film again? With today’s smart phones, who even has a camera these days?

14- Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years.

15- It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

16- Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.

17- Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

18- UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world! Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.

19- Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties. Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that coming.

20- Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go-player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.

21- In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM's, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future , (what a thought!) only omniscient specialists will remain.

22- Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, it’s 4 times more accurate than human nurses.

23- Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

24- Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next 2 years, the entire industry will start to be disrupted. You won’t want to own a car any ’more as you will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.

25- You will not need to park it, you will pay only for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving. The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.

26- This will change our cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can transform former parking spaces into green parks.

27- About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles; with autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles That will save a million lives plus worldwide each year.

28- Most traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. They will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

29- Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in their vehicles starting this year with the 2019 models, using all electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out hybrid models.

30- Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla and they should be. Look at all the companies offering all electric vehicles. That was unheard of, only a few years ago.

31- Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the costs will become cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.

32- Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will abandon their towers to move far away to more beautiful affordable locations.

33- Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity.

34- Cities will have much cleaner air as well.

35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.

36- Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact. And it’s just getting ramped up.

37- Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy.

38- Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it.It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any Disease. There are dozens of phone apps out there right now for health

WELCOME TO TOMORROW – some of it actually arrived a few years ago.

And I'm still trying to figure out how to use my cell phone!!

I concur with some of the above items, but as the manager of a large power utility's energy control center for 17 years and having a professional engineer license as an electrical engineer, I have serious concerns about some of the energy and electricity statements.

Electricity had to be generated. It is primarily consumed as it is generated. We have a few ways to store electric energy, but none of them are ideal. One way is with the use of pumped storage units. However, when the energy is recovered, only approximately 70% is recovered due to inefficiencies in the process. Storing energy in batteries is also not very practical because it would take tremendous size batteries to store significant quantities of energy which would be extremely expensive. There would also be a conversion from AC to DC and then a conversion back to AC. The loss of energy in the use of batteries and the required conversion processes would be very significant. The generation of energy by solar and windmills is realistically very limited To begin with, the cost of constructing the necessary equipment is substantial for the amount of energy that would be received. We only get solar energy for about a half of the day and even that can vary so much. We only get wind energy when the wind is blowing. Also, when the wind speed drops to half speed, we only get a quarter of the energy. What do we do when the wind is not blowing and it is the middle of the night? We have to have other generation to meet the load, which then becomes a double expense. And where does this energy come from to run our electric vehicles - it has to be generated by some form of generating station or device which adds to the load to run our homes and industrial plants, further aggravating the problem. We are going to be dependent upon fossil fuel and nuclear generation for a long time. I am personally afraid of nuclear energy - we have seen what happened at Chernobyl, Fukishima, and Three Mile Island. I know a little about nuclear power since I once held the title of and worked as a nuclear engineer at a Naval Shipyard. There is a lot more involved to some of these "great ideas" than many people understand.

You need to do a lot more thinking.

Petroleum is used for at lot more that fueling cars and trucks. All things that are made of plastic of one type or another begin as petroleum. This includes the plastic materials in electric cars. Don't forget the tires too. The chemicals that are used to make drugs come from petroleum. Indeed many articles of your clothing are made from petrochemicals.

Both Coal and petroleum have very high energy density and thus are very useful in running heavy machinery needed for industry. It is easy to make electric cars. Indeed this was the most popular type of vehicle just prior to 1900. Electric trucks to haul goods are quite another matter. The energy density of the best available batteries is much much lower than gasoline or diesel . This means that the weight of cargo carried by an electric truck must be much less that carried by a conventional truck.

It should be noted that electric vehicles do poorly in cold environments particularly as drivers like to have heat in their cabins. I have relatives who work where temperatures are below -50 F in the winter. Diesel vehicles cannot be turned off in such environments. It is also dark there for almost 24 hours of day.

It might be mentioned that the manufacture of batteries involves the use of exotic metals. The mining of these materials releases many highly toxic materials into the environment. The metals often must be sourced from our political enemies - China and Russia. The heavy machinery used also requires petroleum.

Windmills require petroleum products in their manufacture and have a rather short life span. Huge concrete pads are used to support that windmills. The concrete pads cannot be reused and likely will remain for thousands of years. Windmills also have devastating effects of bird and bat populations.

Solar cells and and computer chips require coal for their manufacture. It is required for the extraction of silicon from quartz. Solar farms would would have large footprints. The land under the solar farm would be environmentally destroyed. Ultimately, solar and wind power cannot provide enough energy to maintain and industrial society. My ancestor envisioned a society powered by solar, tidal and wind power in 1830. It did not come to pass as these sources cannot provide enough power.

For the purposes of providing electricity, nuclear power can provide large amounts of power but has its own associated risks.

You might note that computers are dumber than the numbskull who programmed it. Computers will find it hard to operate in the highly unpredictable environment found on the roads. Computers will be able to kill people too.

My Chevrolets are already computers on wheels.

Bill what on earth have you been smoking/drinking? Look around you at the compassionate and caring people who are doing all they can to help total strangers get through the virus. Do you not see anything outside of your little world? Did you miss the hundreds of thousands of medical workers who are working long hours with less sleep and food so others can survive? Neighbors while practicing social distancing in many countries singing or doing things to entertain and help others just get through this? Where the hell have you been?

The world is what WE make of it Bill. Maybe you need to open up and let some warmth in. My world is going great for me and I am surrounded by the beauty of strangers every day.

Dennis