You have read too much into my post, the government will have to recoup tax/revenue one way or another WHEN electric cars take over & that's not going to be in my life time or any time soon which is pretty obvious.
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You have read too much into my post, the government will have to recoup tax/revenue one way or another WHEN electric cars take over & that's not going to be in my life time or any time soon which is pretty obvious.
the cheaper they try to make lithium batteries the less recyclable materials are used in them, so old lithium batteries end up as just land fill. or dumped in the sea by
less concious countries.
less concious countries.
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Compressed natural gas (CNG) is already supplied via a separate meter. Very few people use it but they do not get to fill their cars at domestic fuel tax rates. Lekky cars will eventually do something similar. It might even happen by the electricity suppliers refusing to fit domestic fast chargers (local mains cables being unable to cope) so you are forced to use public chargers which will be taxed.
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Lithium is cheap but it may depend on the value of rare earth elements. It has to be cheaper to "mine" old batteries than digging it out of the ground.
lithium is just a part of the battery, there is all the plastic and other bits too
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Aye! you do have a thing about over thinking things fella.....
It's the line of least resistance.
Car makers wont make too many 100% battery cars any time soon as it's not in their interest to do so.
Fuel suppliers have zero interest in zero emissions.
Electricity utilities will not be digging up streets to lay fatter cables.
The tax people have no interests in any of this so they wont be "priming any pumps". They did that with solar panels and windmills look what that cost and for what?
It will take the likes of Elon Musk, Google and Apple to make any significant changes and we will still have the power supply issues.
There are 26 of the low lones forecast.. is there actually a published list.??
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Some stuff from green campaigner Bryony Worthington about thorium fueled reactors.
Kirk Sorensen explain how molten salt reactors avoid virtually all of the safety issues of pressurised water reactors. This also explains how in the USA (but also UK) how nuke regulators with tick box demands prevent nay other type of reactor from being developed. Alvin Weinburg designed the PWR for submarines. He late built and ran a high temperature molten salt reactor. It was shuts down and forgotten about 5 years before the first PWR meltdown at Three Mile Island.
It gets better. Obama castigated the Chinese for not releasing the rare earth elements needed by USA electronics companies. USA has more than enough rare earth, but (just as in China) it's always found along with thorium which is slightly radiaoctive. So little that it takes 15 billion years to decay by one half. USA puts huge safety demands in place where there is juts no need. Coal is radiaoctive and fly ash 10x as much but nobody bothers about that. They build houses with fly ash concrete.
The British Company Moltex is building a plant in Canada simply because the British nuke regulators make inappropriate safety demands based on the needs of high pressure hot water and solid fuels when the new designs don't have either. Not a drop. BTW, Moltex expect to be burning waste fuel removed form Canada's existing reactors.
This takes a bit of effort to follow but worth doing. FF to 2 minutes.
Kirk Sorensen explain how molten salt reactors avoid virtually all of the safety issues of pressurised water reactors. This also explains how in the USA (but also UK) how nuke regulators with tick box demands prevent nay other type of reactor from being developed. Alvin Weinburg designed the PWR for submarines. He late built and ran a high temperature molten salt reactor. It was shuts down and forgotten about 5 years before the first PWR meltdown at Three Mile Island.
It gets better. Obama castigated the Chinese for not releasing the rare earth elements needed by USA electronics companies. USA has more than enough rare earth, but (just as in China) it's always found along with thorium which is slightly radiaoctive. So little that it takes 15 billion years to decay by one half. USA puts huge safety demands in place where there is juts no need. Coal is radiaoctive and fly ash 10x as much but nobody bothers about that. They build houses with fly ash concrete.
The British Company Moltex is building a plant in Canada simply because the British nuke regulators make inappropriate safety demands based on the needs of high pressure hot water and solid fuels when the new designs don't have either. Not a drop. BTW, Moltex expect to be burning waste fuel removed form Canada's existing reactors.
This takes a bit of effort to follow but worth doing. FF to 2 minutes.
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