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Yes- everything she says.
Right now, companies like to claim “hydrogen” capable engines for marketing reason, well knowing it will not be viable..and people will not spend time watching this type of video.
Rates aren’t just going up in CA. We are seeing significant increases in Indiana and we still have coal and natural gas power plants. A lot of the electricity in the US is natural gas based and the cost of gas has increased a lot in the last year. Coal isn’t getting cheaper either.
Today the excuse is noise. Tomorrow it will be something else. It always is. You only have to look at the current battles on mountain bike trails, or even paved bike paths, to see to future issues for electric. There are videos out there, two bicycles on the same path, one acoustic and one electric, and the person on the acoustic bike is berating the person on the e-bike, claiming that they are not allowed on the trail, that "no powered vehicles are allowed on the trail"--they simply relabeled e-bike as "powered vehicle or motorized vehicle" and now the fight is on to ban electric bicycles from the trails, as if they were motorcycles. It's not that they can't coexist, they can, but one party doesn't like the other party's choice of bicycle, so they want to ban it.
I've worked in the environmental industry for decades, I understand the game quite well, and it just saddens me what you all are going through over there. As a kid, I always dreamed of what it must be like to grow up and ride in Belgium, where Roger Decoster or Joel Robert came from. These were Gods when they came to the US, so I pictured their homeland as some sort of fantasyland!
My point is not to argue with you, but to simply make the point that, to win, you must understand the battle and the enemy in order to defeat them.
Trust me....I started passing over his posts long ago....
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I dunno. Maybe bitching about emtbs is a thing in US. I have had zero problems.
I even raced in same class as regular bikes. It was DH race so no pedaling was required.
KTM wants to milk money out as long as they can. Their profit from simple ICE engine bike is superior and bike will need replacement parts soon as you roll out from shop. You will make less money doing proper E-MX bike and cant sell engine and gearbox parts every month for same bike.
Lets hope Stark will do what Tesla did to car segment soon and others have to follow.
If you don't virtue signal RE: electrification, then the capitol available to you via ESG investing dries up. Say what you will, but the EV PR machine has been railing hard on Toyota in recent years for their stance on electrification. Now they have a new CEO.
EVERYTHING is higher with out of control inflation! You get what you vote for
I can only speak from my experience here in Germany. If you have a track (and the permit), there are three thing that can take it away from you. Noise, dust and oil contamination of the soil. Quite bikes, a sprinkler system and a matt under the bikes and you have no problem.
Buddy of mine owns a track for 30 years. He says dealing with the authorities is no problem when you play by the rules.
Obviously not..
As far as natural gas, it more than doubled this month in CA. They are claiming there's a shortage combined with extreme cold weather conditions across the country.
Yup. Welcome to Europe everyone! gas and electricity. Taxes on mileage driving, tolls. All designed to get us off the road an into "green" public transportation.
My yearly solar system credit will be gone this year.
When Toyota arent going big into EV's after doing the first one, its a telling sign
To be fair…it takes “energy” to produce Hydrogen, right? (Intended only to clarify)
I can see reasonable growth/expansion of hydrogen fuel availability (we’ve already seen that) and can also see vast improvements in production technology as they lean into electrolytic and direct solar processes…and away from thermochemical. You’d think they’d really lean into the future potential bio-mass-conversion; but, hey…why look into making something from sources like waste-water, right?
Sometimes I smh when I look at the technology/technologies we pursue versus the ones we should for our own long-term benefit.
Personally, I like pursuing all these technologies and seeing their benefits to the ongoing global energy supply insanity.
Then again, y’all might jus’ wanna ignore me…I’m one of those guys that thinks Nuke Energy is the way to go. Look at Palo Verde in Arizona as an example.
Out of control inflation? Inflation-nationally-has been dropping since like September.
Lol, railing against user fees and lamenting your lost tax credit, sounds like socialism to me!
Btw, my gas rate per MCF has gone down $.10 from a year ago.
You mean coming down to 6.5 in December from 9.1 in June…? Still, is 6.5 “a good thing”?
Yep, you usually split water or methan to get pure hydrogen, which takes a lot of energy. In the video, wind or solar powered electrolysis is among the most expensive ways to go. AND hydrogen is a nightmare to compress and store.
Actually, running a nuclear plant and producing hydrogen, ammonia or methanol when there’s excess energy would is a good idea.
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Gas on the rise again(now that the elections are over)....
$8 per case bottled water.
Since like Biden was elected.
Ummmm.... when I said "credit"....it means what I've banked as far as my power generation that exceeds what I've used in a year.
Are you on NEM 2.0? I've heard things are really getting ugly with NEM 3.0 soon. Are they taking your credit for overproduction away completely? Or, are they trying to square up with you monthly (or even daily) for your overproduction? Meaning, that if you overproduce in the summer months, you won't be able to bank that excess power for the winter months when you need it.
There are certainly challenges.
Well, not to split hairs, but its 5.5 based on the CPE released last week...and that's not good...though better than June...my only point was that inflation is dropping, and not "out of control"...
Nuclear power is probably the best idea to provide cheap power to masses of people to charge their cars.
If it can help with hydrogen, even better.
Sounds like a problem with the net metering laws of your state
Sounds like KTM has come to the same conclusion as Triumph. Triumph spent years working on an E Street Bike and pretty much said, "the technology isn't there yet" to give customers what they want at the price they are willing to pay.
We're on 2.0....yeah 3.0 is a concern.
As of now, the overproduction credit isn't going away....it's just that electric rates have gone up so when we settle up at the end of the year (True UP date) that "credit" will be greatly diminished or gone.
The only difference is rates is "peak" and off-peak" during the day/night....there is no difference for summer/winter.
I want to install batteries at some point to tell the electric company to f**K off. Waiting for that technology to mature and come down.
Oh man, don't get US mountain bike purists started on emtbs. If you ever want to witness a shitshow, just hop into the emtb threads on any given mountain bike forum. To some Americans (especially Southern Californian Americans), you're worse than a pedophile if you ride an emtb.
Same with fuel prices. Go to record highs. Then when it comes down a little, take a victory lap. Even though it’s still almost double from 3 years ago!!
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