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Re: [RFI] Wireless Power Transfer with electric vehicles

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Subject: Re: [RFI] Wireless Power Transfer with electric vehicles
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 17:40:35 -0700
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On 4/11/2021 4:50 PM, David Eckhardt wrote:
EVs:  they are also ignoring the power must be generated somewhere,
somehow, in some manner, using multiple natural resources.  The EV power
budget is a loser when the womb-to-tomb analysis of electric power
generation is properly addressed in a scientifically rigorous manner and
excluding politicians.

Yes, the power must be generated somewhere, but you seem to be ignoring wind and solar, both of which are growing strongly and getting cheaper by the year. W6JTI lives off the grid in the mountains a few miles from the Pacific in the "lost coast" region north of Mendocino. He charges his Model 3 from power that he generates from a stream running by his house.

BTW -- I'm currently reading a new autobiography of Jimmy Carter by journalist Jonathan Alter. Carter grew up on a farm that had no electricity or running water until he was in high school. A graduate of the Naval Academy, Carter retired from the nuclear submarine fleet after working as one of two lead engineers under Admiral Rickover to oversee the development and manufacturing of our first nuclear subs. His biographer quotes MANY of those who worked with him as being VERY bright, able to master new scientific disciplines and technology very quickly. Those subs had nuclear reactors to generate power years before land-based reactors were used to generate electrical power. His experience with those subs prepared him as President to react to the failure at Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

Carter retired from the Navy as a Lieutenant, getting glowing reports from Rickover, his direct report, to take over the family business his father had built when his Dad died unexpectedly of cancer. After doing so, he did a lot of complex and innovative engineering to modernize the business, including a large working farm that raised cotton and peanuts, among other things.

BTW -- as President, Carter foresaw the issue of climate change, and had solar panels installed on the roof of the White House as a demonstration project to excite the American public about it. Reagan considered them a joke, and had them removed.

73, Jim K9TC


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