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I recently rented an x6 off Turo just to drive my friend to a corvette specialist. It was only a 2 or 2.5 hour drive each way. Could’ve used the m3 as it’s a lease and I’m already well under the mileage but didn’t want the wear and tear or god forbid a stone through the windshield, flat tire, or accident so I rented someone else’s car lol. It was so cheap it was totally worth it. Car was nice too lol |
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Hell now, even the big box stores will deliver most things for free if you don't live in the boondocks. Loaded trucks and SUVs have just become the new luxury vehicle people. |
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Wife picked up an Audi e-Tron last August. Loves it. We charge at home. Everyday she has a full charge. When she did a 7 hour road trip recently, we rented an ICE car from the local Avis office. No big deal, but haters gonna hate... Oh, and it costs $5 to "fill it up" from empty. How much you spending to fill up that ICE SUV? |
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Relativeness is a keyword when dealing with anything nuclear. Safer compared to burning fossil fuels? It absolutely is, even with Chernobyl. It's easy to be scared of nuclear waste that's in a concrete casks in a area with tons of warning signs and planned to be buried somewhere for hundreds of years. But if coal power plants just spew shit in the atmosphere, there's nothing to be scared of there, especially downwind, because those "tree huggers" would have complained about it. Enjoy that 50 tons of mercury in the atmosphere every year. Oil tanker crashes and dumps thousands of barrels worth of oil or toxic chemicals? That's fine. Off-shore oil rig "full of redundancies, and ran by high qualified personnel" has a problem and dumps millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, poisoning the food for millions of people? That's sane. Interesting fact that many people didn't know (not that many people know anything substantive about it to begin with) - after Chernobyl's reactor 4 accident destroyed much of the building, reactor 3, which shared a wall in the building with reactor 4, was only powered down for the last time in the year 2000. Turns out even a dangerous nuclear reactor design can be safely used if you don't disable all of the safeguards on it.
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06-21-2022, 05:15 PM | #275 | |
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Yes, they are stored pretty securely today... but over time, that storage is meaningless. The cost to store and maintain increasing amounts of waste over centuries adds up. We already have nuclear waste leaks at some older storage sites - problems that are very hard to fix. The only solution is newer reactors but people aren't building them in the USA due to protests etc. Most existing plants are being decommissioned as well - at least on the west coast. (solar and wind power is big here) So no to nuclear unless they are new designs that produce less waste and and recycle some older waste. But its a catch 22 in that in order to have better nuclear plants, you need to spend to renovate existing plants - that's money no one wants to spend. Natural gas prices are cheap and will not go up significantly in the future. That makes every nuclear plant a money losing proposition. And the waste problem adds up quickly as all the old waste just sits.
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I'm guessing that the waste from an appropriate number of efficient nuclear plants would be significantly less than the battery waste from fleets of EV's.
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06-22-2022, 01:23 PM | #282 | |
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Go look on ebay for used tesla batteries that are EOL and tell me why someone would waste these batteries while recycling is not yet cost effective when they are worth many thousands of dollars on the secondary market? Recycling doesn't just mean tearing down and recycling raw materials. It also means repurposing EOL batteries in other applications when they are no longer suitable for EV use. The batteries will ALWAYS retain value, either in material or secondary market value. They won't be wasted. Last edited by ga9213; 06-22-2022 at 01:29 PM.. |
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i am not buying an EV to save the planet. in fact love the smell of burning petrol and get withdrawals if i don't hear the sound of V10s (and V8s). but over the last few years EV has grown on me so much that I might pass on the M3 Touring to get an EV. reasons -
- dinosaur juice is so expensive - when i turn on the EV i have instant heating when it's 0 outside - when i press the pedal it gives me instant power (i live on hilly terrain, it's so good) - no engine and transmission to blow up, or even to maintain. at all. yet the powertrain in 2 years of R&D is superior to 200 years of R&D already. cons - no "sound" - sometimes it is a good thing but sometimes i want to hear a V10 - heavy - but interestingly doesn't affect driving dynamics much unless you're at the limit then ICE will give more Gs - slow to "fill up" Last edited by G30M; 06-22-2022 at 08:00 PM.. |
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They are valuable commodities and there are many years left to identify optimal ways of direct recycling. |
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Repeating the point again and again - the impact of mining, capturing, refining, transporting, and consumption of fossil fuels is ridiculously higher. A gallon of oil or a pound of coal can only be used once. A battery can be recharged many times, the rare earth metals used in wind turbines as well as materials used on solar panels can be reused for years and eventually recycled.
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