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Comment by pfdietz

5 years ago

Nothing you listed there requires fossil fuels.

If you think those activities require fossil fuels, you are basically saying industrial society is impossible after fossil fuels run out.

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Gibbon1  5 years ago

That problem with that guy is he hasn't done any math to back any of that up.

When you run the numbers for say tractors, trains and mining trucks it pencils out just fine.

  • anesmike  5 years ago

    Confirmation bias is not good; one must look at other sources to firm up you belief and if you find other info contradicts your bias you must update your beliefs. For me ,Charles Hall's book Energy Return on Investment totally changed my mindset by reminding me thermodynamics from undergrad 46 years ago(oh shit!!1)

    • Gibbon1  5 years ago

      You need to dust off your pencil then. I took three semesters of thermo as part of my mechanical engineering program. I ran the numbers for heavy vehicles and it all works.

anesmike  5 years ago

Simply put, there is not a battery big enough for these trucks, the trucks are too massive ,the battery would be massive,it unfortunately will not work, just the laws of the universe.