(04-24-2019, 07:33 PM)The Drifter Wrote:

(04-24-2019, 07:18 PM)mikesez Wrote: Electric transport is available today.
I don't think transport will ever be fully electric. There will always be some gas or diesel vehicles out there.
But you can expect that more people will go electric if fuel prices increase. It's easy to imagine a fuel price where everybody would want an electric car and most people would actually get one.

If fuel prices go up and everyone goes electric, there will be more demand for electricity. And since most plants are coal fired, that will mean a higher demand for coal and the price will go up. When the price of electricity goes up, so does the price of charging an electric car so your transportation cost will rise also.

Hence the urgency of putting more solar, wind and energy storage on the grid.
Also we have capacity that could be ramped up in natural gas, before we would ramp up coal.
In any case I do agree that if one form of energy increases in price the others will also tend to go up in the short term. Supply and demand.

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(04-24-2019, 08:08 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(04-24-2019, 04:03 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Not to mention that lithium batteries could be very dangerous, then there's the problem of disposing of them.  

I agree.

That said, I would definitely like to invest in any company that can turn this dilemma into a benefit but putting such batteries to good use (and have a patent on their invention/discovery)

A battery that's no longer viable for powering a car may still be viable for grid energy storage.

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