Lucid Gravity a three-row, family-friendly EV w/ 440+ mile range***

 *** BEV range negatively affected by driving faster than posting highway speeds, parking for 8 hours in snowing conditions at a ski resort, driving with 4-8 people & skiing gear up a mountain pass at freeway speeds & using the HVAC with full heat & AC to defrost windows. Prolonged storage in 22F or colder requires battery heater circuits to waste battery capacity at up to 7KW of power consumption, reducing range by up to 40% in some cases. Do not leave the BEV parked in sub-40 degree weather for more than 20 days without plugging it in to a L1 EVSE or L2 AC charger to keep the battery from being completely discharged. After 5 days without use in sub-40 degree weather, the EV will go into storage mode & may take as much as 5 minutes to turn fully on to be driven in a normal mode once the battery charged using a L1 L2 or L3 charger. Keeping the EV battery between 30-80% charged will greatly enhance the batteries useful lifetime, cycle life & calendar life, and reduce the risk of 100% charge damage overcharging which causes progress battery capacity loss of pack fading. 

After the luxury Lucid Air EV with 550mi of range
Gravity offers a luxury electric SUV to compete against the Tesla Model Y & Rivian SUV
Premium Battery Electric SUV consume 350-600 watt hours per mile, much more than smaller BEV's
This means the average BEV SUV will use around 4000-7000kWh per year to go 10,500 miles
I highly recommend the Toyota Rav4 Prime as a Plug-in Hybrid alternative that's also reliable & fast! 

Lucid Gravity looks superlative, dope, sic, it has steeze or style galore, and excellent brand recognition.

See Lucid Gravity revealed as three-row, family-friendly EV with a 440-plus-mile range - AutoblogLucid Gravity revealed as three-row, family-friendly EV with a 440-plus-mile range - Autoblog 

Make no mistake, buying a new car not eco-friendly / car making be it an ICE or EV, resource intensive or causes harm to nature with pollution emissions, not just CO2 or carbon emissions. 

EV's destroy tires 3X to 10X faster because of their higher mass & instant torque, which also makes them a blast to accelerate, really quiet on the inside & very energy efficient when compared to gasoline powered equivalent vehicles with engines that have lower than 40% thermal efficiency. Gasoline not the problem, it has 44 megajoules of energy per us gallon, its the stupid greedy lazy car manufacturers that keep selling low thermal efficiency unreliable car engines with plastic engine parts that fail early. 

I am looking at GM, Fiat, Ford & others who do not have a sterling reputation for reliability like Toyota. I want my car to work every time I go to drive it, daily, for commuting, for years on end with basic maintenance. I want good 40+ MPG of fuel economy on regular fuel, not premium. After 100 years of engine design experience they know how to make engines to last 10,000 hours or more with regular oil changes. They can also make changing the engine oil easier with a cannister style oil filter & drain bolt valve. I am surprised that they don't have onboard oil thermal chemical reconditioning to enhance oil life in an oil cleaning system more advanced than just a filter & oil pump. 

Is a Lucid Gravity reliable, how about the Lucid Air, who knows. Its a newer BEV maker without enough history to tell if these expensive premium EV's will hold up well. How much battery capacity loss will happen per cycle, per year, and how long will the battery pack last & how much will it cost to replace? There are lots of good questions that have not been answered yet because we don't know what we don't know until we have data & facts to know about, and that means Meta long term data analysis in the future. Only time will tell, more or less. What we can say is that luxury vehicles tend to depreciate the fastest, have higher insurance costs, have higher operating costs, have higher maintained & repair costs, and tend to have a snobbery association that I would not want to personally be seen with. I live near Seattle with lots of low skill drivers who have more money for a new fancy luxury EV than driving skills, who do braindead unsafe dangerous things in traffic that I see while driving the School Bus full of children. Shame on bad drivers for making other people less safe & shame of the state for giving these fools drivers licenses. 

Solving Problems with Technology by Using More Technology

 Arm-chair environmentalism is about reducing your individual energy use, using every bit of high efficiency technology you can buy. That is not eco-friendly. Its super resource intensive. Making EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, hydro dams, we can't make electricity without causing problems with pollution in the biosphere. 

We cannot solve problems created by technology by throwing more technology at the problems. That just creates more different kinds of problems, the way that war also does not solve problems, but kills a lot of people, costs a lot, and causes a lot of damage & harm to nature, the economy & other people. All so a small minority of people can execute political power over other people in other countries. Thats warped & sick. 

There is a popular YouTube Channel called Undecided with Matt & he makes content showing the extreme premium efficiency obtained by throwing a lot of technology that's expensive into a solar smart home with whole home automation. 

Expense reflective at this scale of resource intensity or negative impacts of buying all that stuff needlessly. The upgrade lifestyle culture toxic to the biosphere & the reason that so many sickos care more about money than themselves, other people or nature. They literally worship money like a superficial idolator who God will condemn to hell for eternal damnation. 

Today 85% of the energy that power the world non-renewable~

The VW XL1 diesel hybrid showed that a Mazda Miata sized car can be made to get over 200 MPG. They are not known to be quiet or comfortable & VW only made 250 of these XL1 that all pre-sold to wealthy German people before it even went into limited production. 

Audi A2 showed off aluminum castings to make a fuel-efficient passenger car that gets nearly 50 MPG or 4.5L/100km, but Audi lost nearly $7 grand on each A2 sold, so they scrapped that project, well Bernd did when he took charge. 

Coal is cheap, no two ways about it. A giant train car full of coal less than $100
The same amount of gasoline or diesel costs 10X more
Nuclear Fission Plants have a 9000% ROI after 25 years, so private investment avoids it, but the NERI or net energy return on investment into gigawatt scale reactors unmatched for stationary grid power production. 

Some wind power installations claim $0.02 cents per kWh while cheap dirty coal rings out $0.03.4 cents per kWh. Solar PV varies in cost by many factors, but given that bright sky only available for an hour of so during dark multi-day winter storms, an all Solar PV home has to have 10X more solar PV panels & a robust large capacity whole home battery + backup generator to actually not lose electrical power to run the appliances. 

Automakers know how to build cars to last 3 million miles or 50 year, but they dont make them that way on purpose because the resulting long life car would cost 40-60% more upfront & most people are not willing to pay that much more for long term reliability. Only Toyota prides themselves on selling people reliable cars. So, what is wrong with all the other automakers? It's hard to make a profitable automaker, since vehicles are complex energy & materially intensive products to make, so the entire supply chain for automaker global in nature & total vertical integration nearly impossible. So many automakers are actually system integrators who design a vehicle where the parts are made by other companies all around the world. Tesla BEV maker in California was the first US automaker success in more than 90 years. 

That gave Tesla a lot of brand cache. Some snobbery mixed in with the upmarket buyers of Tesla to produce a cultural EV trend, saying that "Battery electric vehicles can be as good as ICE fossil fueled internal combustion engine vehicles" / and Tesla sells some Performance EV's with dual motors that accelerate to 60 MPH in under 3 seconds, like a hyper car or supercar. 

It's the 300 mi magic range & 100kWh battery that becomes the capacity fade nightmare without government tax incentives to compete in the cold bitter business world of the global marketplace. There is no free lunch in physics & its is not easy or cheap to make a complicate product like a Tesla Model Y or Toyota Rav4 Prime. 

I used a PHEV & BEV as examples, both SUV models because those are popular. I like personally smaller cars like the Prius & Corolla or Mazda Miata & wish I could wear a battery electric helicopter backpack to hop around like a tech zealot since I am. This wish was translated into the $6K consumption of a Yamaha MT-03, and Honda PCX-150 before that. We still have both & ride them in the summer or warmer months. 

Honda started making motorcycles by adapting 500cc generator motors that were originally for WWII Philips radios, onto bicycle frames in a 12 square meter shack with 12 men. Today Honda is the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer, with more than 100 million Super-Cubs sold worldwide. If the Corolla Hybrid at 2850 lbs or 1296kg can achieve 77 MPG with light hypermiling, then motorcycles with similar performance should get 3X better fuel economy. 

Our 2-2013 Honda PXC scooter has a 153cc liquid cooled fuel injected single engine & gets 89-105 MPG while cruising between 20-50 MPH. The 1.1 gallon fuel tank results in only about 100 miles of range. This is a good example of how power scaling vs thermal efficiency & capital cost are nonlinear integrations mathematically. Said another way, there is a point in capital cost where premium efficiency becomes plausible such that a large machine has better energy economy than a smaller cheaper lighter machine. 

This means that CAE needed to compare multi-variable engineering problems, further delimiting who actually understands vehicle energy economy, other than to just compare MPG between models, to think about vehicle purchasing budget, operating costs to fuel weekly or monthly, costs to insure, maintenance, and depreciation. Thats a lot to consider without doing advanced research on computers. 

Then again, the internet allows people to do product research so anyone who puts forth a decent amount of effort to searching can find answers that result in their understanding that Toyota the best automaker because they have a legendary history of selling people all around the world cars that keep going & going, reliable personal automobiles. 

Most countries have terrible public transportation, especially American cities. In America you have to have a car to function in most locals. Meg & I believe that all cities should have much better public transportation like Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York or Paris. I believe the talking heads in politics only care about money, say one thing and do another, mostly to appease those who bribed them into office by helping to pay for the election campaign that allowed the corrupted individuals to obtain public offices. 

This is why lobbying a betrayal of public interest, violate the trust of the people, cheating the constituency with lies & misinformation to confuse & misdirect people, but also because of the corruption that gets large companies like Amazon political representation while normal working people like Dr. O or Meg or I are basically left to our own to figure out how to make a nice life or nice living. 

There are warped sickos in governments who actually order war without cause. There are warped sickos in high places that traffic children they abuse for entertainment. There are warped criminals who have no sense of moral or ethical personal accountability. All these public shootings are evidence of societal decay, and no electric vehicle is going to solve these problems. I am particularly skeptical of BEV's because many world governments seem so keen to promote them. 

In Washington State owning an EV means you annual vehicle tabs go from under $200 per year to over $650, thus the state claims its because of lost gasoline sales taxes, but that's the same amount of fuel taxes as an F150 getting 14MPG driven 15,000 miles. Clearly the EV taxes that WA State enacts, not reflective of the budget reality of people who buy a used Nissan LEAF as a cheap commuter car. 

I think a lot of rich people are out of touch with the hard reality of currency inflation that makes life more expensive & harder for people at the bottom. "Let them eat cake" said that arrogant queen of France. So selfish people living opulent lives have a history of being sociopathic or narcissistic or self centered or uncaring, cold & inhospitable. I personally know so really nice wealthy people. There are warped sickos who are broke too. 

We can find bad people in all levels of society. Remember the governments are just made of the people, well technically the people in government started out as part of the general public. But many US Senators believe they are beyond justice, like Hillary Clinton who had classified pentagon information in private home server. What kind of person has a file sever at home with classified pentagon information on it? If you or I were caught doing that, we would be charged with sedition & treason & executed by the state as an enemy of the state. 

We see in this example that life was not fair & not fair now & probably never will be fair for everyone, sadly. Fortunately, God see's everything & no one will escape his justice. There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed as each person stands before God so their soul can be judged fairly according to his unwavering unchanging sublime beautiful honorable amazing nature. Praise be to God forever & always. Amen. 

Turbochargers are Exhaust Driven Air Pumps

Auto manufacturers are obsessed with 2L Turbo engines, now in more than 700 different cars. Did I mention that I am like Jalopnic, obsessed with technology & cars. Jalopnik | Obsessed With The Culture Of Cars

Make the engines smaller. Where 6.7L naturally aspirated engines once were, now we have 2.7L Turbo with direct injection from Ford. Where 4L engines were, the 2L turbo engine emerges. Toyota even turbo direct injected a 3 cylinder 1.6L in the GR Corolla for 300 HP out power, holly banana pants, that's amazing. 

2L inline 4-cylinder engine consider a darling in engineering with 500cc of swept area that the piston & rings slide up & down through. The goal of engine designers to get more power out of the fuel. In principle this would increase thermal efficiency, but they waste fuel to keep combustion temperature low & to play nice with the ECU & catalytic converter & exhaust emissions, but also by running slightly rich fuel air ratios that can prevent detonation or valve pinging at higher engine loads like when you're passing on the highway & shove the accelerated all the way down with your foot. 

By turbo charging, the naturally aspirated 2L goes from 160 HP to as much as 700 HP. Above 350 HP requires advanced dry sump lubrication, intercoolers, oil jets under the piston skirts, titanium valves, hydraulic valve variability control, variable ignition, & direct injection of gasoline with an addition set of port injectors to keep the valve seats clean and to maximize boosted performance fueling under full load or maximum output or full acceleration :) Using E85 with flex-fuel like ECU mapping variability control, power output can be further enhanced. Higher ethanol blends have much better performance because they are intrinsically higher octane, like a race fuel. 

There exists small hobby weak blend nitromethane fueled engines that make 3HP out of 27cc of displacement. Thats over 700HP per liter, like F1 engines. Nitro motors use 4X more fuel or are not fuel efficient for that amount of power. The 16% nitromethane + methanol & synthetic oil fuel is also not clean burning & releases and oily gummy mist in the exhaust. 

Top fuel dragsters pushrod V8 use 90 nitromethane & 10% methanol fuel. They can go 330 MPH within 1000 ft, less than 1/4 mile. The top fuel dragsters engines make 11,000 HP but are opened up & cleaned & checked after a few runs for safety. They are so high performance that these engines sometimes explode, so some parts of the engine are now strapped down with safety straps to keep shrapnel from an engine explosion from hurting anyone nearby. 

This is why virtually no power generators use small nitromethane engines. These little hobby car nitro motors are also 2 strokes so engine life only a few hundred hours max. A well-made Toyota 2JZ liquid cooled 4 stroke gasoline engine operates for 10,000+ hours by comparison, as long as the engine oil changed regularly & other basic maintenance performed. 

The 4.0L 1UZ engine in the 1989-1995 model year Lexus LS400 the most reliable engine ever made, though that means 10MPG city in the real world. Back then gasoline was less than $1/ gal in the USA. The 1NZ-FXE in the 04-09 Prius a 4 banger 1.5L of exceptional durability. The 2ZR-FX in Meg's 3rd Gen. Prius & my newer Corolla Hybrid are 1.8L of Atkinson exceptionally high thermal efficiency & very reliable. Toyota has a history of selling fuel efficient, long last, reliable engines, better than Honda, better than anyone else. 

Other than Toyota, most automobile transmissions are crap & wear out in less than 100,000 mi & cost $4000-$10000 to change, rather to pay a mechanic to change out the broken transmission. Some HD diesel trucks have long lasting Allison transmissions but get poor fuel economy. The diesel Bluebird School bus I drive gets 5.6 MPG using diesel in the variable gate Turbocharged Cummins inline 6 engine, typically used in class 8 trucks. It also weighs nearly 40,000 pounds. 

That means a 4000 lb. passenger car should get 10x better economy or 56 MPG if the power to efficiency & mass scaling was linear. VW did sell TDI vehicles that get over 50 MPG when driven gently. TDI stands for turbo-diesel injection. I really like the 1.9L 88 VW diesel TDI engine, and the TDI Jetta that it powered back in 2003. It was a strong contender on the list that included the 2nd Gen Prius which I ended up going with because it does not have a transmission. The HSD or hybrid synergy drive system in Toyota Hybrids is far more reliably that even the best manual transmissions. 

Information Online : Your The Problem, Your Biggest Problem is You : Learned Helplessness

Stop winging & embrace a can-do attitude & maverick hero persona. You can accomplish anything you set your mind to accomplish. You can do anything you set your mind to. Your not behind held up by anyone other than yourself. Do you think my blog produces itself? Do you know that I hand type most of my blog content right on the seat of my chair. 

The gasoline fueled 2023 Toyota Camry with the Dynamic Force Engine & 8-speed direct shift transmission is a wet dream of engineering. A reliable, trustworthy, crashworthy, awesome, well made, respectable sedan with good performance & good fuel economy that will last 20 or 30 years of daily use. These sterling reliability reputation Toyota vehicles are so well made that they are famous all over the world as being the most reliable & longest lasting vehicles available. 

I love the GR Yaris & GR Corolla & dream of owning one but resent the low fuel economy from the turbo 1.6L with 29 PSI of boost that makes 300 HP. That seems like a lot of engines stress & I know from studying the WRC & custom-made one-off factory world rally championship & group B rally cars that stuff breaks down on those vehicles all the time. 

Rally teams carry multiple sets of spare tires, spare suspension, engine wear items, all sorts of spare in trailers filled with spare parts. I am talking about supercharged & turbocharged small engines that make 500+ HP sent through a LSD on both axel superlative torque vectoring all wheel all the time drive systems. Now WRC requires Toyota Homologation, so they have to engage in serial production of the rally cars, thus the GR Yaris & GR Corolla are actually being sold to the public. 

Under 30 MPG a no go for me since it would be my daily driver, and I reset paying $45K for a GR Corolla out the door, then have to take it in the wallet at the gas station pump fueling it all the time. It would cost 2X or more to fuel than the Hybrid Corolla which is fast enough. That 2ZR-FXE & HSD shove the Corolla Hybrid down the highway at much faster than legal speeds easily. 

I don't care about peak acceleration in the real world, my work commute not a race anyways, and often low skill drivers abound along my route, people with more money for fancy cars than driving skills blocking my way with stop & go traffic congestion on the way home at night, so I don't want the 21 MPG city fuel economy in stop & go traffic, nor a manual transmission for commuting that would cycle wear my left knee hip & ankle with hundreds of stop start cycles daily. 

I am a cheapskate or tightwad or wisdom enhanced frugality focused science nerd and find energy efficiency entertaining. Going further with less fuel the reason we have taken Meg's 3rd Gen Toyota Prius on so many really long road trips throughout America during the summer. To put it this way, if we had take our 2.8L Audi A4 quattro on these same trips, it would have been 4X more expensive, in part because it requires premium fuel. 

That would take money from our food budget, our fun budget, reduce where we could visit, our housing budget for hotels. If we had to waste 22mpg fuel economy budget on fuel, it would make the entire trip worse, well thats true of my daily commute too. I only drive the Audi on Sunday to church & back, about 80 miles per week, and that costs $25 in fuel. What a gas hog, and it hogs the most expensive premium fuel. Back when my mother purchased this Audi in 2001, gasoline was just over $1 per gallon. That $1 dollar also had more buying power back then than it does now. 

I actually think that 44 mega joules of chemical energy in gasoline for $5 a gallon a really good deal. The problem with most gas-powered cars is that the greedy manufacturers use cheap low efficiency engine technology in order to maximize their profits per vehicle sold. So that means people who buy many vehicles get burned by poor reliability & poor fuel economy, forced to pay more per mile for each reason. This is why so many luxury vehicles depreciate rapidly. 

Get a Toyota or if you really want something fancy, a Lexus, since Lexus just a brand of Toyota. 

Luxury vehicles are expensive to buy, expensive to operate, expensive to fix, expensive to maintain, and lose capital value in depreciation faster, making them a poor man's choice, for rich men are tightwads or frugal and invest the money the save, so save your money & invest it into profitable investments, just like rich people do, on a smaller scale. 

Most of them started out small to. You know the guy who started Amazon.com was just a regular bookstore owner, who had a great e-commerce epiphany. Now Jeff B of Amazon one of the wealthiest people in the world. 

E-commerce serves a function by enabling people to buy things they can't even procure locally. Some people telling me about it, amazon, eBay, and Alibaba, describe it as "search online to fit it, click to order & it shows up like a magic trick", sometimes the same day, next day or just a few days later if you are like me & have an Amazon Prime subscription, and live within reasonable proximity to a slave life working conditions Amazon fulfillment center. 

I think in law & order some criminals should be ordered to work in a Amazon Fulfillment center, that doing so would teach them a lesson about how to be an accountable person with personal integrity, moral courage & ethical ideology. After all, is that not what most parents should be teaching their children anyway. In another way, we are all, as they say, God's Children, imperfect hypocrits, who makes mistakes, and fail, where no one has all the answers except God. 

CIGS Solar PV, Fuel Cell's & Hybrid Electric Turbo Fan: Battery Electric Passenger Aircraft

Hybrid electric fuel cell CIGS solar battery electric passenger aircraft, where the energy density, power density, temperate sensitivity, pressure sensitivity, cycle life, cell mass, pack mass, charge & discharge rates, calendar life, presents safety problems with lithium battery chemistry commercially available. 

Carbon fiber wrapped aluminum high pressure tanks with NH3, H2, DME, Propane, Butane, CNG, LNG, Methanol, Ethanol // there are many different fuel-cell electricity generating technologies that can work high uptime commercial aircraft application as the prime mover energy source.

Long life electrodes in fuel cells need to be made with iridium, platinum, titanium, carbon & exotic manufacturing techniques that are complicated & expensive like vacuum bag autoclave slow part making but worse in CVD & E-Beam processes & slow precise electroplating. 

The platinum content of the Toyota Mirai fuel cell stack for example exceeds the rare earth & noble metal use in automotive catalytic converters, which in OEM examples cost thousands each. Figuring out how to get the same long-life performance with less platinum required the use of advanced 8th generation electrically conductive ceramics with nano particles of platinum. 

Noble metal matrix electrodes made with zirconia ceramics, doped with rare earths like cerium and rare expensive metals rhodium, palladium, and platinum nano particles slurry coated in vacuum onto the ceramics, with silicon carbide emerging as one of the longest lasting, while even nano-diamond battery anodes exist, as do silicon nano-wire battery electrodes. 

There are exotic, expensive & really cool technologies that are made in low volume for aerospace applications, but mass producing affordable high-performance long-lasting versions of those technologies to make the world a better place requires significantly more innovation, investment & problem solving.

Lithium Sulfur & Lithium Air poised technologies for passenger electric aircraft, where the fuel cell stack electricity charges the batteries while also powering the electric turbine hybrid electric turbofan engines that can run on jet fuel for takeoff peak power performance, then switch to electric while cruising, when descending, and when coming in for a landing. 

There are many modes or ways the hybrid electric turbofan can act as a wind power generator to recharge the propulsion batteries. So the engine makers have to make a 400v or 800v or 1200v electric motor with mass reduction technology like the 88lbs Dark Energy motor from Koenigsegg, but as a thinner cylinder that can axil shaft mounted into the turbofan core to act as the starter, alternator, generator, boost, and prime mover, using electricity made from the Fuel Cell Stacks and energy storage battery packs. 

What about obese people with heavy luggage? Hybrid electric passenger aircraft will probably be used to flights less than 1500 NMI or nautical miles. Conventional advanced aircraft like Boeing 787 already use 60% less fuel. 

Top surfaces of passenger hybrid electric aircraft need CIGS Cadmium Indium Gallium Selenide solar PV epoxy bonded to the carbon fiber shell. This way any sunlight hitting the top surface of the aircraft create heat for deicing and PV energy to charge the batteries & power the hybrid turbofan motors to reduce jet fuel use further, lowering the operating costs even more than the added costs of integrating the strong durable long-lasting flexible CIGS technology that is typically used in Space Satellite power systems to make energy to charge the satellite batteries & power the satellite electronics, radios & other equipment to keep the parts super cold or super warm. 

No throwing out Jet Fuel, but we can make renewable jet fuel with biofuel technology, GTL fuel or synthetic fuel from coal gasification, biogas, and natural gas, cheaply at industrial quantities using well establishing high volume petrochemical processing technologies already and long ago widely available and highly refined.

Say it with me, Shell GTL fuels, syngas, synfuels, made with the Fischer Tropsch reactions developed to give Germany war time fuel during WWII, since Germany did not have abundant crude oil or petroleum resources to mine or pump out of the ground. 

Synthetic fuels are already available, and have superior chemical purity, are cleaner burning, have longer shelf life, have more energy, make engines last longer, make engine oil life last longer, are more like propane or natural gas in terms of combustion cleanliness, with a clean blue flame like ethanol that does not coke the valve seats with carbon deposits like conventional unleaded gasoline made from crude oil, especially in GDI engines or gasoline engine with direct injection & often also turbocharged, where an additional intake injector port utilized for valve seat washing port fuel injection that sprays pulses of fresh gasoline that flush & keep the valve seats clean, so the valves can close all the way to maintain good compression. 

Synthetic fuels cost more to make than conventional fuels & only sell well in markets where gasoline or petrol sells for more than $2 per liter or $8/ gal. In the future when crude oil resources have been widely depleted, coal, biomass, and natural gas will be made using GTL technology into liquid transportation fuels of many kinds & grades & specifications. 

The coolest part about synthetic gasoline is that when stored in airtight plastic bottles the shelf life more than 10 years like diesel fuel. Today common E10 gasoline starts to foul or oxidize forming strings of waxy alkane threads, fuel oxidation end products that must be filtered out of gasoline, especially if it is to be used in small engines with carburetors. 

Foul gas will clog a carburetor easily with varnish deposits of the same chemicals that make the alkane waxy threads. Moreover, the E10 contains hygroscopic ethanol that attracts water into the fuel, and water in the fuel can cause rusting or corrosion of the jet nozzle in carburetors & even the injector valves in fuel injection and can damage the fuel pump in the sealed pressurized vehicle gasoline or petrol tank. This is why I put red colored Fuel Stabilizer in my gas cans & only fill them with E0 or ethanol free gasoline. 

We will have hundreds of years of transportation fuels to refuel all the antique vehicles that run on gasoline being made & sold today, and from the past, and in the future. There is no way that BEV or battery electric vehicles will ever achieve 100% market share in all countries worldwide. Gasoline in one form or another will be around until our grandchildren's grandchildren are old & wise. 

How Much Will it Take to Replace Millions of Gasoline Stations with Public DC Level 3 Fast Chargers

Add 10 gallons gasoline into automobile in a few minutes.

In a 10 MPG sports car (1200hp)) that is 100 miles of fuel range

In a 50 MPG hybrid Toyota that's 500 miles of fuel range

Adding the same amount of charge to an electric car battery takes at least 4X longer.

When the average car owner spends 4 hours per year fueling their car at a gas station, the EV owner will spend at least 16 hours fiddling with charging at public L3 charging stations to get the same amount of range, to drive at least 10,500 miles per year. 

Maybe a L4 DC 1,000,000 watt or 1 Mega Watt or 1MW public charger can make a 10 minute charge add similar amounts of range to a 100-300kWh battery pack electric vehicle that can take 800 volts. 

Consider that 1MW charging stations are not a commercial practical feasible EV charging station yet. The Tesla Supercharges at 350kW are the fastest highest current L3 public charging stations widely available.

Sometimes the L3 much less like the Nissan L3 that peaks at 50kW but throttles down to 9kw or less at the battery approaches full in the LEAF (Leaf starts at $28,895) or ARIYA (Nissan Ariya starts at $43,190)

Tesla Model 3 (MSRP: $40,240 - $53,240) & Model Y (MSRP: $47,740 - $54,490) are the big sellers or the higher volume sales BEV's made in California by Telsa Motors. 

Electric Jesus Elon Musk makes bold claims about the 2024 Tesla Cybertruck with claimed 300mi of range, though less if you turn the HVAC on full and or do that while going up & over a mountain pass to go skiing, snowboarding, hiking or climbing, especially if you take 3 other adults & a bunch of gear with you. 

There exists no magic bullet to make EV batteries 10x better. Moreover, its iterative improvements with chemical tweaks about every 8 months, and major battery new chemistry breakthroughs every 20 years. 

Also, what's possible to do with gold & titanium foil pressurized inside beryllium alloy case satellite batteries that have 20kWh of storage but have to survive oven hot to cryogenic cold operating conditions for 20 years orbiting the Earth in the extremes of lower Earth Orbit; such satellite batteries cost $50k or more, but that makes no difference on a $100 million satellite budget. 

In an EV a $50K battery means the resulting car like a Lucid Air or some $100K + Rivian SUV or Electric Hummer / yeah, a few well healed buyers who already have a 240vac L2 charger at home in their 3 car garage micro-mansion in America, they can get the latest greatest BEV & charge it during the day as they work from home on their laptop computers, while their 40kW rooftop solar PV system of PERC N-Type monocrystalline solar panels, robust N-1 micro-inverters, and whole home 100kWh battery backup UPS solutions L2 chargers their latest BEV. 

We do not live in a world where everyone can get a Lucid Air. It's not even possible using fossil fuels to make that many EV, let along all the copper, lithium & other materials. We are not industrial enough to make billions of long-range luxury EV's. Our energy technology not abundant enough. 

We would need broadly applied nuclear fusion reactors by the thousands to have enough electricity to industrialize more than we have with crude oil-based fuels & giga scale refineries that turn the oil into gasoline, diesel, kerosine, jet fuel, propane, butane & more. 

Natural gas compressed or liquified even used to fuel rocket engines along with cryogenic liquid oxygen. Carbon & hydrocarbon fuels have very high energy density that will not be equaled by batteries for many decades or possibly longer. 

Think of the amount of building & infrastructure & increasing demand for electricity production that millions of L3 DC fast charging stations would require. A system of EV charging that can supplant gasoline stations, almost unimaginable, not practical, not feasible, probably not even affordable if you leveraged debt spending, and all world military budgets, or even the entire global economy to pay for it.

Pipe dreams of EV only future is exactly that, dreams, not reality, not now, not in 10 years, not in 20 years, I will be very old or dead by the time that gas stations are phased out, I am chronologically 40.15 years old as of writing this now in November of 2023. 

You are Not Me / I am vehicle crazy, with more tires that require air pressure Maintenace. I drive 12,000 mi per year to commute & go on road trips. I live in urban sprawl America & waste energy like an American but have been trying EV's and electric vehicle toys for a while now. Nissan LEAF just did not have enough mountain climbing highway speed range to work for me much of the time. I tried 3 different Nissan LEAF, each with larger batteries, 24,30, and 40kWh respectively. 

Based on these bad Nissan LEAF low battery range anxiety experiences, I believe and have evidence to suggest that an EV needs at least 100kWh of battery to be feasible to replace a hybrid or gasoline powered vehicle, and moreover if you want road trips, and worst-case winter driving up mountain pass range like a hybrid, the EV needs 400kWh of battery.

My collection of vehicles is crazy & costs a lot to own & operate, maintain, fuel, license & insure. 

3 cars, 2 hybrid, 1 premium gas
1 motor scooter, PCX150
1 motorcycle, MT03
1 cool e-bike 
2 regular nice bicycles
1 Segway MP OG
1 e-Kick Scooter
1 GX200 Pressure Washer
1 EU2000 Generator
1 Battery Generator
Different PV panels etc

Hybrid Electric & Plug-in Hybrid Superior to Pure EV in 2023

Gasoline engines as range extenders critical to enabling road trips & longer drives than any other widely produced & widely available BEV or battery powered automobile can achieve. This is why the Rav4 Hybrid or Rav4 Prime (PHEV) from Toyota sell extremely well.

I learned about Toyota Prius in 2003, the first-generation model was on the campus of WSU where I was a new college student. Ted & Ada, friends of mine in engineering pointed out the example, owned by a college professor that got over 40 MPG using regular gasoline, by combining electric motors for boost & energy recovery brake regen + idle stop to turn of the engine when the vehicle stopped while at a traffic light signal controlled intersection for example, or in traffic jams. 

In city fuel economy idle stop can boost fuel economy 10-20% & nearly every kind of car, truck & SUV can be equipped with a basic idle stop system for a nominal increase in cost at the manufacturing level of only a few hundred dollars. Idle stop systems end up saving the owners of cars operated in cities thousands of dollars on fuel during the time that they own & operated these vehicles for 5-20 years after the idle stop equipped vehicle manufactured. 

Every automobile featuring a dynamo, magneto or alternator also an electric power generator that uses energy created by combustion of fuel in the engine as rotational torque output to spin the power generating device & make electrical current flow. Though modern alternators on most cars & trucks & SUV generate AC power, a rectifier circuit makes DC power in 10-16v to charge the 12vdc automobile battery SLI PbA AGM, such that the large battery & power generating technology acts like a mild-hybrid to energize all the lamps, bulbs, computers, & electronics present on vehicles since the 1970's starting with ECU & fuel injection, and much further back with energy for electric head lights, tail lights, turn signals & brake lights for safety signaling & illumination. 

Today as of 2023 modern cars have so many computer chips and wiring harnesses that they can be reasonably called a rolling data center. The CMOS sensor fusion on Tesla BEV's actually means that Tesla Model S, 3,X,Y been scanning real world roadway data making Tesla Motors a Big Data company with class leading autopilot solutions. 

In 2005 I purchased a then brand-new Toyota Prius II with the technology package. It now belongs to Allan, my lovely wife Meg's genetic father. I sold it to him with ~159,000 miles ODO after driving it for 17 years, with the average mileage the whole time being 46.9 MPG absolute (miles driven / gallons of fuel added total) Allan now gets over 50 MPG going 50 MPH & using other hypermiling gentle acceleration & safety focused fuel saving driving techniques. He drives many more miles than I, and his Ford F150 was getting 12 MPG city & 18 MPG highway, so he can visit his grandchildren much more often while still saving money on fuel now :) 

The Prius II has the most exceptional 1.5L 1NZ-FXE engine that powered the 04-09MY Prius, later replaced by the 2ZR-FXE in 2010-2022 MY Prius 3 & 4 models, while the dynamic force 2L engine in the 2023 Prius has even better thermal efficiency while also pumping out 196 HP. The 5th Gen Prius does 0-60 MPG in under 7.8 seconds, and the eAWD versin does it in less than 7.6 seconds, making the 5th Gen Prius the fastest Prius ever, while also the most fuel efficient. 

I really wanted a 5th Gen Prius but ended up paying $30K for a 2022 Corolla Hybrid that gets 42 MPG when driven fast on the highway, 53-58 MPG when keeping up with traffic flow in light highway traffic, and if go in the middle of the night & use every hypermiling trick I know in ECO mode I can get the trip economy up to 74-78 MPG. 22 

22 Corolla Hybrid has the HSD drivetrain & 2ZR-FXE engine of the Prius III & IIII, that has been in high volume production for more than 12 years. This 1.8L long strong VVTI Atkinson engine an absolute engineering masterpiece for its relatively diminutive performance. I am not sure I like all the activate ADAS features in Toyota Safety Sense 2.0 which was updated to 3.0 for the 2023 MY. 

The LKA or electronic power steering gentle correction assist does not always work correctly where the lane markings cannot be detected clearly by the upper windscreen camera data system. The system does read road signs like speed limit signs most of the time & then displays them on the dashboard LCD the speed limit for the zone persists as easy to read at-a-glance driving information, very useful if I didn't see the speed limit sign in a zone where the sleep limit lower than before. Automatic High Beams or AHB also not exceedingly polished & I can only imagine how much these LED headlights cost to replace when the LED eventually burn out. 

I really like automotive lighting systems with user replaceable bulbs like the D2R bulbs in the 2005 Prius HID headlights. Meg's 2010 Prius III got aftermarket headlights that I installed by removing the front bumper & put ultra bright LED bulbs into the new housings. I am a DIY enthusiast & Device Repair Law advocate & WISE Level 2 certified electronic repair technician. 

Morality & ethics that protect consumers from unethical manufacturing practices are part of my general interest in high quality people, honesty, fairness & other virtues encouraged in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, based on the Teachings of my Lord & Savior Jesus Christ of Nazareth who performed many signs, wonders & healing miracles during his time as a human on Earth back then. 

24kWh Nissan LEAF S in 2013
30kWh Nissan LEAF S in 2015
40kWh Nissan LEAF SV in 2022

I tried these Nissan LEAF's and absolutely loved each one for low distance in city flat route commuting but climbing highway 900 from Issaquah to Renton or doing any other fast freeway across I90 or up I405 caused battery capacity fading that made each one of these impossible to use for my real world needs of a vehicle performance. 

It is my personal experience that a BEV needs more than 100kWh of battery, and batteries with that kind of capacity have a mass of 1500-2500 lbs., depending on cooling solutions & if the pack structural or not & other variables. This means that modern lithium-ion BEVs with 300+ miles of range are more than 5000 lbs. 

The high mass of long-range BEV + the fun instant toque acceleration shreds off tire tread so fast that many EV drivers only getting 4000-10000 miles of use out of tires that last 45,000-90,000 miles on hybrid & plug-in hybrid & ICE vehicles respectively. 

Tire tread erosion emits more microplastics into nature than any other source. That is a dark sinister fact about BEV's that you never hear government politician talking about with their radical insane push to make all new vehicles sold electric by 2035, which will never happen anyway because of supply chain issues about lithium, cobalt, copper, titanium, nickel, gold, platinum, silver, palladium, & other expensive, toxic, rare & limited supply metals needed to make BEV's. 

Modern BEV's also have a higher manufacturing carbon footprint than the conventional fossil fueled vehicles they replace. Consider also what happens to all of those relatively new gasoline powered cars that still have a lot of useful life on them, that must be fueled with gasoline for many decades beyond 2035. 

Consider also that BEV batteries are being revolutionized to remove cobalt, improve safety, improve energy density, so that EV's can charge at 800V at 1000 AMPS DC on Level 4 chargers faster so that it's more like a gas station fill-up of unleaded gasoline in terms of time spent refueling or charging. 

I think Hydrogen a great option with fuel cells, but they are expensive, and hydrogen fuel cell cars like the Toyota Mirai are also battery electric with EV batteries & electric final drive motors. Be careful with hydrogen fuel costs, H2 prices similar to $18 per gallon or $5 per liter gasoline. Thats using brown H2 made by steam reforming natural gas, which is also not ecofriendly, but also the cheapest way to make H2 currently & for the foreseeable future. We need radically more efficient ways to make H2 from H20 since the Earth is covered in salt water & sea levels are rising because of climate change melting the polar ice caps of Earth. 

We need 300kWh EV's batteries that weigh less than 900 lbs that can be recharged 55,000 times & last more than 30 years with only limiter degradation or loss of capacity. Many radical chemical innovations will be needed to improve EV batteries to this point, especially the affordable mass-produced kinds. 

There will likely always be some radical energy density battery for aerospace satellites that lasts & lasts because it has to survive the temperature extremes while orbiting in low gravity orbits hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth. In direct sunlight the Satellite can get to 300 F & in the shadow of Earth or the Moon, the cold vacuum of space causes the satellite to go to -250 F. 

Satellite batteries have to work flawlessly for 20 years while operating in conditions from baking in your oven to cryogenic cold, multiple times per day. This is why satellite batteries are so robust & so expensive. Not something Tesla going to put into a BEV for sale to the public. Luxury personal VTOL flying vehicles (Rich Men's Toys) will use the same kinds of ultra durable low mass aerospace batteries, and these Personal Luxury VTOL will cost as much as turbine powered helicopters. 

Hydrocarbon liquid fossil fuels, biofuels & other fuels will end up energizing range extenders. When an engine used as a range extender it as actually a power generator. Automotive range extenders are exceptional when compared to commercially available gasoline generators. BMW i3 Rex APU features a 647cc twin engine (from BMW C650 GT Scooter) for example, only 330lbs as complete system but makes 24kW of electricity. Good luck finding another commercial power generator under 400lbs that makes 24kW of power. This illustrated how refined modern fuel burning gasoline engine technology is at generating mobile energy for vehicle propulsion. 

This is why fossil fuels gasoline, diesel, & JET A energize 98% of all transportation methods worldwide. It's going to take an engineering marvel, societal change, more laws, more technology, radical innovation, and more industrialization to enable 8 billion people to have BEV's with similar range as traditional gasoline fueled vehicles, that charge quickly from many kinds of voltage power AC or DC locally available, from solar PV integrated into the roof of the vehicles or shell, that have low mass long life safe batteries. 

We have a long way to go before BEV's are actually comparable analogs to conventional ICE or internal combustion engine vehicles. This is also why hybrid electric & plug-in hybrid makes the most sense. These HEV & PHEV leverage all the technological progress & energy density of fuels & engines, while still enabling advanced efficiency operation, with lower emissions & better fuel economy. 

Petrol or Gasoline 44MJ/KG forty-four Mega Joules per Kilogram (Holy Fuel) or very energy dense
Thats more than 20X more energy dense that Tesla Motors BEV batteries with 256 watt-hours per kg
Toyota solid-state lithium-ion batteries have 650 watt-hours per kg. 
State-of-the-art aerospace Li-Ion are 1200 watt-hours per kg.
Petrol or Gasoline 12,000 watt-hour per kg. 

Refueling our 2022 Corolla Hybrid 

I just drove to the closest fueling station to Dr. Olga's rental house where we spent the night last night. 

To buy 4.692 US gallons at $4.899 using $0.10/gal grocery store alt # discount, for a total cost of $22.99 USD2023 to go about 249 miles or ~53 MPG that's about 4.5L/100km with unleaded 10% ethanol gasoline that sells for about $1.32 per liter or $5/ gal. 

Energetically that's 206 Mega Joules of fuel energy for $23 USD 2023 (Why USD year, because of currency inflation) (meaning $23 this year worth less than $23 last year, so on) 

If I hypermile I can get under 4L/100km, and if I drive faster than traffic, I get 5L/100km. Thats 42-77MPG US gallon or~ 55-89 miles per Great Brittan gallons that are larger than US gallons. 

$23 to go 249 miles // in a 2,850lb or 1293kg 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid
Fuel cost of less than 10 cents per mile ^^ 

Our different Nissan LEAF models grid power at $0.14/kWh recharging cost about 4.9 cents per mile by comparison. 

So $5/gal gasoline in 50MPG car similar to EV charging at $0.30/kWh // notice that electricity cost influences the operating cost of recharging an EV the way fuel cost influences the operating cost of a gasoline powered vehicle. But none of our LEAF EV models could go 80MPH for long distances, especially not while climbing mountain passes at 70MPH. When I add fuel to the Corolla Hybrid the dash computer estimates range at 620 mi before refueling. 

Even in the 40kWh LEAF SV I was only able to get 140 miles of range while driving under 40 MPH on flatter surface streets. At highway speeds the LEAF SV 40kWh battery pack would deplete so rapidly that it made me nervous, with range anxiety. 170kW motor was a beast with V6 like acceleration but if you held the throttle down all the way, the battery % faded at 1% per second. Letting off the throttle the battery gauge % would climb back up to the actually nominal charge state, but the lack of sustained performance a real drag for highway use. In short bursts great, but no sustained higher speeds, especially not while climbing hills. 

This is why BEV's need 100+ kWh battery packs, today that increases the vehicle mass to nearly 5000lbs or 2276kg. I can drive the Corolla Hybrid at 80 MPH all day long & still have 400+ miles of range before needed to refuel. This, in part, because of the higher thermal efficiency of the 2ZR-FXE Toyota Engine 1.8 Atkinson + HSD dual motor / generator setup. The tiny 0.75kWh li-ion battery pack of the Corolla Hybrid helps to capture & discharge energy from brake regen & for boost to help the engine. Thats how it gets over 50 MPG on regular gasoline. 

Someday, long before the engine goes bad, that li-ion battery pack will need to be replaced, for a thousand dollars or so. If the dealer wants too much, I will get an aftermarket battery replacement & change it myself, since I am a DIY enthusiast. 

It's not a hard or particularly heavy hybrid battery to change, weighing must less than the NiMH packs of other hybrid models made by Toyota. I think the li-ion battery in the Corolla Hybrid weights less than 80lbs, including the metal case, charge controllers, pack wiring, as a system part, vs 150lbs for the NiMH equivalent. I can lift 80lbs without special care, but 150lbs off angle sounds like a possible back injury. So, this means the li-ion battery easier & safer for me to change. 

I bet the hybrid battery will last more than 10 years before needed to be replacement and will help to save more than its replacement cost in gasoline. I mean, I was aiming for the GR Corolla which has a rating of 21 city 28 highway MPG, so that would cost me at least & probably more than 2X more to fuel. I plan to keep the 2022 Corolla Hybrid until 2035 or longer if possible. By then BEV or battery electric vehicles will be way better. Let's hope that WWIII does not break out until long after that, though I have intel that suggest 2027. 

Sadly, World War 3 will be a Bioweapons war, indiscriminately killing anyone affected. The pentagon estimates the global human popular will decline 95% as a result of the bioweapons deployed in World War Three or WWIII or World War 3. Blame the CCP in China for using the Bioweapons that kick of the next world war. Covid19 was just a test case for the CCP bio-weapons program. 

Stop Complaining About Bad Governments, & Bad Companies, They Reflect the People, Some of Whom are Bad!

Two faced hypocrite liars, that's people. Wax on about renewable energy, sustainability, the need to stop pollution, to reduce preventable diseases from breathing tailpipe emissions, to save the spotted owl, or some lake or stream from factory liquid pollution emissions. But those factories create jobs & profit, and without them how would the people who work there pay their rent, for their car insurance, for food, for fuel, for life's basics? Man is a Job, Job is Man, as the old saying goes. You cannot get something for nothing in engineering? There is no free lunch in physics. Its either a true fact or it is not factual. 

Opinions abound just like conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation, & fake news of all kinds written by generative AI agents like Chat GPT or Open AI versions. I type my blog on my smartphone or one of my laptops or desktops with a physical clicky keyboards. I tend to use my gaming laptop to write these blog postings & watch YouTube videos & play CS 2 on steam in short bursts :) For a moment I used a free version of ChatGPT to multiply my blog posting, but that took away some of my voice as a writer. I want you to hear my thinking process & the way I communicate IRL in my blog postings. 

Falsehoods & misdirection, magic if you will, to manipulate other people, sometimes done for enjoyment as audiences enjoy and entertaining magician who's tricks keep their minds spinning to try & figure out how they did that seemingly impossible thing. 

For-profit automakers make engine parts out of plastics because their accounting & engineering teams have special software to simulate the cycle life of all the parts & systems in the latest automotive designs before the cars even enter production. Back in the 1990's Toyota & others simply beefed everything up to make sure it would last since they lacked the compute needed in CAE to simulate the entire vehicle & all the parts & cycle life, heat cycling, physical strain or stresses & other elements or aspects of real-world use that determine the cycle & Calander life of car parts, engine parts, & other systems in a vehicle. 

They have to comply with government emissions regulations, that means costly engine emissions controls with various expensive sub systems & parts, like the modern 3-way catalytic converter & a pair of O2 sensors before & after. 

Take that 1.6L Turbo engine of the GR Corolla that I lust after, though 21/28 MPG on premium fuel steered me into a 50+ MPG Corolla Hybrid that has the same hybrid synergy drive system & 1.8L Atkinson 2ZR-FXE engine as the 3rd & 4th Gen Prius. With hypermiling I am able to get our 2022 Corolla Hybrid to return more than 70 MPG or miles per gallon using regular unleaded gasoline that costs about $5/ gal locally, sometimes a bit less locally due to the winter blend fuel :) Thats $1.32/L or so per liter if you're outside the USA buying fuel by the liter, in USD2023 (date because inflation actively eroding the value of the dollar; naughty Federal Reserve, you know how to do it better to stop inflation, stop quantum easing right now & jerk the interest rate up!) 

Driving 4 Answers on YouTube has an excellent video about this topic // that what we see in government & commerce only as evil as the public is as a whole, though you might be a "nicer" outlier or statistical anomaly, or peculiar to the world as a real reader & doer of the Holy Word as a true Christian who emulates Christ Jesus as a life testament to other people who encounter you // more or less / click the blue link bellow to watch his video! 

https://youtu.be/SeMZGICNSMg?si=3k6YXk-tvHu6qHXn

Do you actually keep & use your stuff till the EOL or end of life when they finally break? If your like most Americans you probably buy things you cannot actually afford by financing them. You even buy things you later regret after you cannot return them. 

If you're reading this, you likely engage in needless consumption to feel better with dopamine hits from shopping or buying things & rent a storage unit for disused things or turned the two-car garage of your single-family home into a storage unit for junk you could probably donate without having a reduction in life quality. 

You might actually feel better by freeing yourself of things that are not only not serving you but acting like a boat anker & pulling you down, so many you can't even keep track of them all like me. I speak as a failing example of what I am talking about. In a way trying to see the folly or error in my ways, even aspiring to be an extreme cheapskate & get more value out of my increasingly worthless money or income. 

Social Connectivity Makes More Happiness than More Money

Perhaps a truism in a way, but the priceless things in life cannot be purchased or sold. True love for example not for sale. In the same way law makers cannot pass laws to force parents to love each other or to love their children. On the same token, no law can make children love their parents. A true friend cannot only be connected by organic natural means, as money itself cannot make true friends, especially not lifelong best friends. What we look like makes a difference for several micro-seconds, after that personality & character makes the majority of difference. Let's examine this in the context of extreme Islamic Terrorists in the Palestinian territories.

The Taliban, ISIL, ISIS, Hamas, and other radical Islamic extremist terrorists

~ They hate western countries, especially America, & the personal freedom & liberal ideology of western government, thinking, culture, and other aspects of wealthy capitalist & socialist democracies in the west. 

~ They spend most of their money on AK-47's & 7.62mm ammo, rocket propelled grenades, motors, surface to air missiles, IED explosives, & other tactical military weapons to harm, hurt, kill & destroy.

~ They want to destroy Israel, ruin the moral of the Israeli people, harm, hurt, kill & destroy Israeli people, homes, buildings, power plants, water plants, infrastructure, airports & military assets. 

~ They do not read the Koran, & have no knowledge of the Truth that Muhammad wrote about

~ They follow foolish war lords & illegitimate terrorist leaders who lead them to death without a legitimate cause, causing only fallout, harm, resentment, chaos, entropy & more, which gives rise to counter military campaigns that are very deadly to the Palestinian people. For every 1 Israeli person killed by terrorist weapons fired by Islamic extremists, many dozens to hundreds of Arabic Palestinians will die from the counter measures fired back by the IDF that has superior weaponry. 

~ The result of spiritual forces, for we do not wrestle with flesh & blood, but with principalities of darkness in high places, that use, manipulate, abuse & torment those who follow the kingdom of hell & its petty childish immature leader Lucifer or Satan who knowns he & the anti-Christ will be destroyed by Christ Jesus & God & the Holy Spirit. His time is almost up, so he is amping up his efforts to kill, harm & steal from people in anyway because the Devil hates people since people were created by God, the same God who kicked Lucifer & all the deceived angels that followed him, out of heaven, for blatant disobedience, arrogance, greed, selfishness, and narcissism. 

Yes, all human people belong to God for God created people & all that is seen & unseen. 

Noting also that much of what happens in life does not meet our eyes. One because we only observe small percentages of what can be observed; two because it is impossible to know everything, and three because much of what actually happens does not create light in the visible spectrum or interact with it, but might be able to be observed with infrared or ultraviolet or multi-spectral imaging technologies that see many more frequencies of light photons or phonons that the human eye & brain can observe. 

You don't know what you don't know till you know it, and there is more that you cannot know that you can. Even during an entire human life an induvial person can only capture a small amount of information about reality & how things work, and that even depends on where they were born, where they life, who they interact with, their education, the time in history, the availability of information technology & internet access or access to running water & sanitation & electricity in power outlets in electrified homes & businesses. 

Equal access to these basic utilities is not ubiquitous for all human peoples alive today for example, even though it's been widely known for a long time how governments can use existing pipes & technology & wiring to give their citizens utilities that enable advanced economies to function. America so dependent on Grid Electricity or Electrical Energy that if an advanced Solar Flare or Coronal Mass Ejection or CME shoots off the Sun & hits the Earth, it will create an electrical storm that will destroy almost all electrical systems, computers, vehicles, appliances, power plants, power wire distribution, the internet, telecom, satellites, everything electrical in the path of the CME will be destroyed by the intense radiation, heat & energy. 

Without electricity most ovens, toasters, microwaves, fridges, freezers, vacuum cleaners, dish & clothing washers & dryers, heat pumps, gas stations, banks, credit cards, debit cards, all of these things do not work if the power is out for prolonged periods. After 2 weeks of no electrical power, advanced society falls apart. After 2 months without electricity, violent chaos erupts as armed gangs go roving for resources to survive- willing to kill off anyone that gets in their way. After 6 months more than 80% of the human population will be dead from starvation or crime. 

This is why electricity & energy are the most important topic. Fuel as energy essential for the machines of war to function. This is why the west won WWII, better fuel supply chain logistics, or continually well fueled. This is why many wars are actually about money, power, oil, fuel, or energy, control of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, kerosine, propane, butane, hydrogen. Daniel Yergin's "The Prize, An Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power" a great primer on this subject, as is the 13-part Amazon Prime video series adapted from it in 1994, which is also narrated by Donald Sutherland. 

Let's consider why petroleum-based fuels are so potent. Energy density of gasoline 12,000 watt hours per kilogram & it's a liquid at room temperatures, easily able to be pumped from a gas pump handle or  poured from a gas can into a gas tank for a vehicles engine to burn in the piston cylinders where fuel & air are mixed to make a hot expanding gas pressure that shoves the piston down, turning the crank, which spins the shafts connected eventually to the wheel to accelerate the vehicle. 

Propane in standardized barbeque tanks hold around 4.6 gallons of propane as a pressurized gas liquid at about 150 PSI in grey or white painted steel tanks with brass fill & connection valve up top. Propane cheaper than gasoline, so some gasoline vehicles are retrofitted with propane tanks & propane engine fueling gear, such that the vehicle now uses propane as fuel & no longer uses gasoline. In Germany this propane vehicle conversion popular because it is reducing fuel operating costs by 50% or more vs the higher cost gasoline available locally. 

Propane also much cleaner burning than gasoline, but the pressurized tanks to store it onboard the vehicle take up more volume & weight more than the original gasoline tank, and generally result in less total range per fill-up. The now propane fueled engine performance often reduced due to slower throttling, less torque, & less max power. For commuting at legal speeds this is rarely a problem, and as a result many trash trucks locally in Puget Sound, King County, Wa, USA are fueled by CNG or compressed natural gas, which is chemically & energetically similar to propane or butane & stored in similar pressurized tanks. 

Like CNG stations, Propane refueling stations have slower more complicated fill-ups & are generally not as widely accessible as common gasoline stations that sell unleaded regular, plus & premium grades of gasoline. This means that a CNG or Propane vehicle fuel conversion not feasible or practical in all locals. In South Korea, many turbo-diesel trucks have been retrofitted with DME fueling systems, as DME much cheaper & much cleaner burning than diesel fuel. 

DME also increases the performance of the engines, reduces emissions, and makes the oil last a lot longer, just like oil life in the CX Honda Civic Natural Gas version lasts 15,000 mi & comes out clean looking during the service. DME, CNG, Propane, Butane, Ethanol, Methanol, there are many fuels that burn cleaner than gasoline & cost less as well. You might think that if these cleaner burning fuels are also cheaper, then why are more vehicles not sold with alternative fueling technology?

The answer, most automakers are stupid, ignorant, lazy, greedy & confused. They keep selling the same old cheap establish technology over & over as if nothing new had been invented, and many new cars sold today barely get above 27 MPG average in the real world, even though Toyota can get the 1.6L turbo engine of the GR corolla to make 300 HP with class leading thermal efficiency.

GDI or gasoline direct injection, turbo charging & engine displacement reduction did not even start happening until the 2.0 L turbo engine became the prime mover powerplant in more than 700 different models of cars & SUV's or automobiles on sale today worldwide. In the more niche market in low volumes we see some really extreme engineering take form :) This is my cup of tea, the TFG from Koenigsegg. 

Engineering Explained Jason explains the Koenigsegg TGF https://youtu.be/WwlNqaz9q_0?si=ovVP4J6HHxOxYdDl

The Koenigsegg Tiny Friendly Giant 2L Turbo engine with cam-less free-valve system, achieves 15-25% higher fuel efficiency, while cold start emissions are 60% less. A small turbo for one set of valves, a larger turbo for the other; made of low mass (whole engine only 154lbs or 70 kg) via in part its magnesium alloy block & head. The TGF makes 600 hp (450kW @ 7500 RPM, with 443-ft-lbF (601 N*M) torque at 2000 RPM & 295 ft-lbF (400 N*M) torque @1700 RPM. WRX, GR Yaris, and GR Corolla, means that Subaru (Fuji) and Toyota Gazoo Racing have some engineering competition to aspire towards. TFG at 29 PSI boost shoves 3X more air into the 3 big cylinders than the Honda S2000 engine. ** Though this not exactly widely available even though Christian himself talked about Freevalve in 2015 & the Gemera featuring the TFG mated with 3 electric motors & an 800v 16kWh battery, slated originally for 2020 MY not entering production until 2024 now.  

Meta Material Cloaking Stealth Technology

I highly recommend that you watch this YouTube video from New Mind about Meta Materials 

Click blue link to view video documentary-> https://youtu.be/5v1ilFCOOCw?si=payewa6Yh4sP1MMr

SAR or synthetic aperture radar for defense, aerospace, ADAS on new automobiles, for drone imaging, mapping, surveillance, mining, manufacturing, surveying, construction, robotics, synthetic vision systems, for Robot navigation systems & awareness systems, for applied artificial intelligence in fridges, microwave ovens, clothing washers, dryers, ultrasonic showers, home energy improvement automation & smart home security, for controlled access doorways or entry control systems, & in many other research, commercial & industrial systems like NDT or non-destructive-testing for QA:QC in manufacturing

For trains, airplanes, cars, trucks, busses, motorcycles, wearable airbag systems, VTOL personal electric aircraft including wearable electric helicopter backpacks & similar electric paramotors, & many other kinds of drones & flyable machines. On ships, boats, yachts, for weather monitoring, for navigation, for other vehicle detection, for object avoidance, crash avoidance systems, & other transport machines like trains, trams, even chair lifts to improve safety. 

The idea can be broadly applied in smart fabrics, smart shoes, smart clothes, smart jackets, smart gloves & many other emerging IoT wearables, biomonitoring devices like Apple Watch, Fitbit or Samsung Gear, in medical imaging MRI, CT Scanning, even Optical Laser & LED imaging of flesh & tissue in dermatology, even for orthodontic patients for mouth geometry scanning. To control fast flux resin 3D microwave cure printing with greater resolution. 

The number of ways meta materials can be used to improve and optimized nearly everything well beyond my descriptive abilities or writing throughput time limits to dedicate, but visit the wiki article (click blue text ->) Metamaterial - Wikipedia 

Flooding Followed by Drought & Fire / Negative Feedback Cycles of Climate Change

Trillions of tons of pollutants, microplastics, e-waste, trash, tire tread erosion, studded tire street erosion, acid rain corrosion, air pollutants, land pollutants, water pollutants, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides & soil & nutrient runoff. 

https://youtu.be/cuRHkIhdPMU?si=XNacGzoixNkxO8VY

Forest fires & brush fires during prolonged droughts with hotter dry weather followed by intense atmospheric river flooding big wed torrential floods that ruin landscapes & cities, washing away vehicles & buildings, & decimating farms & agriculture. Fires followed by flooding, a vicious cycle of decay of entropy & chaos made worse by ongoing carbon emissions as decarbonization efforts applied so far similar to a lit candle vs a hurricane. 

Coal cheap, & that is why we are still burning crude toxic basic fossil fuels for heat, power & energy, even though doing so creates tons of air pollution, acid rain, & water pollution, making climate change worse in ways that seems to damage everything as noted above with increasing flooding intensity, longer drier droughts & fires, and a cycle of flooding & fire that tears landscapes of the human world & nature apart faster than ever before, made worse by ongoing combustion of all sorts of carbon & hydrocarbon fuels, or human activity the world over known as globalization & industrialization or worldwide economic development. 

In other words, turning a blind eye to all the world's problems so a few eliter income earners can boost their personal wealth at the expense of destroying nature & other people's lives. Or, radical selfishness, greed & narcissism increasing as sleazy immoral unethical criminals occupy seats of power in world governments like Donal Trump or his longtime friend Vladimir Putin, for former lifelong friend Jeffry Epstein who made a pyramid scheme out of abusing teenage girls with his now imprisoned ex-girlfriend Gislain Maxwell coordinating & organizing the $200 per person payment scheme. 

It costs a lot to run for public office, to become a congress person or senator in America. This means that billionaires, lobbyists they control & large corporations execute corruption with campaign donations or what is effectively campaign bribery "in exchange for special favors." So, for example, the way that Coca Cola can get away with selling sugary tooth eating soda pop to people in Mexican cities where the water too polluted to consume, in a economic profit scheme that benefits Coca Cola, while increasing obesity rates, kidney failure rates, cancer rates, diabetes & heart disease rates, all caused by excess consumption of sugar dense Mexican Coca-Cola or other kinds of sugary soda or pop sold locally in many cities with low quality or polluted water in Mexico & even some parts of America. 

Yes, I am saying that soda pop a dose dependent toxic substance like ethanol or alcohol or alcoholic beverages, beer, wine & spirits. Think about how much drunk driving costs economies, damaging people lives with car accidents that kill innocent people prematurely, while maiming & causing lifelong disabilities to even more people hurt badly in car accidents caused by drunk driver failures & mistakes made by people driving while intoxicate from drinking alcoholic beverages. 

Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider Strategic Bomber

B-21 Raider 6th Gen Steal Bomber + Intelligence

Developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) by Northrop Grumman as part of the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program, it is a long-range, stealth intercontinental strategic bomber for the USAF, able to deliver conventional and thermonuclear weapons.

Air Force intends the B-21 to replace the Rockwell B-1 Lancer, the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, and the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.

Planning for the B-21 in 2011 and awarded development contract in 2015. B-21 made its first flight on 10 November 2023. Expected to enter service by 2027.

Aspects of the B-21 program highly classified; the program designated as a special access program. The Congressional Research Service noted in 2021 that the B-21's technical details and specifications, such as speed, enabling systems, "size, required stealth, structure, number and type of engines, projected weapons, and onboard sensors remain classified" although some information about various other aspects of the program have been made public since 2015.

The first photos of the aircraft were released on 2 December 2022, taken during a rollout ceremony at Northrop Grumman's production facilities in Palmdale, California.

The classified Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program began in 2011, and the Air Force issued a request for proposal to develop a LRS-B aircraft in July 2014. 

A development contract was awarded to Northrop Grumman in October 2015.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin, who submitted losing bids for the project, filed bid protests; in October 2016, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) rejected the challenges and sustained the USAF's decision to award the LRS-B contract to Northrop Grumman. 

The GAO report revealed that cost was the deciding factor in selecting Northrop Grumman over the Boeing-Lockheed Martin team.

Management and acquisition of the B-21 program is being overseen by the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, rather than through the traditional military-procurement process. However, the B-21 program remains subject to the Nunn–McCurdy reporting requirements to Congress.

A 2015 media report said the Air Force wanted the bomber to also function as an intelligence collection platform, battle manager, and interceptor aircraft. 

In 2016, then–Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James said that the B-21 would be a "fifth-generation global precision attack platform" with networked sensor-shoot capability. Northrop Grumman describes the B-21 as "the world's first sixth-generation aircraft."

At the 2016 Air Warfare Symposium, Air Force officials announced that the LRS-B would be formally designated "B-21" because the aircraft would be the 21st century's first bomber. 

In September 2016, Air Force officials announced that the B-21 would be named "Raider" in honor of the Doolittle Raiders. Retired Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, then the last living member of the Doolittle Raiders, was present at the naming ceremony at the Air Force Association conference.

In March 2016, the USAF announced seven tier-one suppliers for the program: Pratt & Whitney, BAE Systems, Spirit AeroSystems, Orbital ATK, Rockwell Collins, GKN Aerospace, and Janicki Industries

In 2016, the F-35 program manager Chris Bogdan said the B-21's engines would be similar enough to the F-35's Pratt & Whitney F135 engine to reduce its cost. The program completed its critical design review in December 2018.

In January 2020, Air Force officials released new B-21 renderings, showing the distinctive flush and blended inlets and the two-wheel main landing gear design. The drawing appeared to show a smaller, lighter aircraft than the B-2.

The cockpit windows of the B-21 are unique to the aircraft, and designed to eliminate joints and seams to minimize its radar cross-section.

In September 2022, the USAF announced that the B-21 was to be unveiled in early December 2022 at Northrop Grumman's production facilities in Palmdale, California. The ceremony took place on 2 December 2022. At the unveiling, Northrop CEO Kathy Warden said that the B-21 is designed with modular, open systems architecture to allow easy upgrades[a] and, potentially, the ability to export components to foreign buyers. Warden said that the B-21's internal operations were "extremely advanced compared to the B-2" and that the B-21 was slightly smaller than the B-2, with a longer range.

The first B-21 at Northrop's Plant 42 in Palmdale, California in November 2022

In February 2016, the head of the Air Force Global Strike Command said he expected the service would place an initial order for 100 B-21s and build up to a full fleet of 175 to 200. In 2017, two USAF studies suggested that Air Force could increase its initial purchase from 80-to-100 to 145 aircraft

Assembly of the B-21 takes place at the United States Air Force Plant 42 near Palmdale, California, at the same facility Northrop Grumman used during the 1980s and 1990s to build B-2 bombers.

In January 2017, Northrop Grumman was awarded a $35.8 million contract modification for a large coatings' facility at Plant 42, to be completed by the end of 2019. The contract announcement did not specifically mention B-21, but the facility was likely meant for B-21 stealth coating. By the summer of 2019, it was reported that construction of the first aircraft was underway. In early 2021, several media outlets reported that as completion of the first B-21 approached, construction on the second unit had begun.

By February 2022, six B-21s were under construction. The first B-21 was moved to a calibration facility the following month. About 8,000 Northrop Grumman employees had worked on the program with more than 400 suppliers from at least 40 states.

In September 2023, program officials said fueling and engine tests were proceeding ahead of the anticipated first flight by year's end. The first test flight of the B-21 took place on November 10, 2023 at the Air Force's Plant 42 in Palmdale, California

In July 2016, the USAF said it would not release the estimated cost of Northrop's B-21 contract, asserting that the number would reveal too much information about the classified project to potential adversaries. 

The Senate Armed Services Committee also voted to not publicly release the program's cost, restricting the information to congressional defense committees over the objections of a bipartisan group of legislators led by the committee's chairman, Senator John McCain.

McCain's proposed revisions to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 would have reduced authorization for the B-21 program by $302 million "due to a lower-than-expected contract award value", while requiring "strict ...program baseline and cost control thresholds", "quarterly program performance reports", and "disclosure of the engineering and manufacturing development total contract award value."

The versions of the 2017 NDAA as initially passed by the House and Senate would have required public disclosure of the total cost of the B-21, but this provision was removed in the final conference report version.

In December 2022, the cost of a B-21 aircraft was estimated to be $700 million. At the time, Air Force officials estimated that they would spend at least $203 billion over 30 years to develop, purchase, and operate a fleet of 100 B-21s.

Maintenance and sustainment of the B-21[a] will be coordinated by Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, while Edwards Air Force Base, California, will lead testing and evaluation.

The B-21 is expected to operate from bases that currently host heavy bombers, such as Dyess Air Force Base, Texas; Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota; and Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. In March 2019, Ellsworth was selected as the base to host the first operational B-21 unit, as well as the first training unit.

The B-21 is slated to, by 2040, replace the U.S. Air Force's 45 B-1 strategic bombers, which date from the 1980s, and 20 B-2 strategic bombers, which date from the 1990s. The B-21 may also eventually replace the B-52, which is slated to remain in service for many decades.

In March 2022, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III raised the possibility of a bomber drone to work with the bomber, but the idea was later dropped because it would not save much money to produce such a large, unmanned aircraft.

The USAF is also planning to acquire a new long-range fighter from its Next Generation Air Dominance program, known as the F-X or "Penetrating Counter-Air", to escort the B-21 deep into enemy territory and help it survive enemy air defenses and intercepting fighters.

In December 2022, an Australian Strategic Policy Institute report advocated the acquisition of a number of B-21 Raiders to enable Australia to have a greater long-range strike capability.

The report states that a B-21 could fly 2,500 miles (4,000 km) without refueling while carrying more munitions as compared to the maximum 930 miles (1,500 km) range of the RAAF's F-35 fighter jets, which require air-to-air refueling. A single B-21 can also deliver the same impact as several F-35As. Additionally, the B-21 can attack targets from secure air bases located in Australia's south, with greater proximity to more personnel, fuel, and munitions.

During bilateral talks held in August 2022, it was reported that the US might allow Australia to procure the B-21. When asked if the US would consider allowing Australia to join in developing the B-21 bomber, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall stated, "I don't think that there's any fundamental limitation on the areas in which we can cooperate. If Australia had a requirement for long-range strike, then we'd be willing to have a conversation with them about that." 

However, the Defense Strategic Review released by the Australian government on 24 April 2023 stated that the B-21 was not considered a suitable option for acquisition. Australia will instead invest in the upgrading of its F-35As and F/A-18Fs to the latest Block 4 and Block III configurations, respectively, to enable both aircraft to be capable of launching the AGM-158C LRASM and the Joint Strike Missile.

Economy of the USA in a Downturn *About to Take a Dump worse than 2008*

Telsa Motors started selling Model S, Model 3, Model X, and Model Y new at 20-40% discounts to stimulate sales, lowering their profit margins on each unit from ~26% to ~17% angering investors in Telsa Stock TSLA & people who recently purchased new Tesla EV's at full price before the discounts.

Buyers of the Cyber Truck also have to sign a special end user agreement that prevent them from selling their new 2024-25 MY Cyber Truck for an entire year to prevent scalping or selling them at a premium to other buyers further out on the waiting list. 

Scalping Products on Waiting Lists

Some sleazy people do this, they get in on an early deposit for a new very popular emerging product, then as soon as they get theirs, they immediately list it for 20-50% more than the full purchase price to make a quick profit at someone else's expense. 

Failing Fiat Currencies

Fiat Currencies like the Euro, RMB & USD are losing value rapidly now in a kind of hyperinflation style loss of the average person's buying power or purchasing parity, making all of life's basics proportionately more expensive for the general public, normal families, and even high-income earners or the upper middle class or lower upper class income earners. 

Real Estate Debacle Unfolding

Home prices in many US cities & other developed locals in wealthier nations are so expensive that working families are being forced to move away from these cities, it what could reasonably be called extensive gentrification. 

Rent prices for even a basic apartment nearby, with utilities & parking can cost north of $2,000 per month. (See King County Real Estate Bubble 2023) / this is in part because inventories for homes listed still 45% lower than pre-Covid19 levels, causing bidding wars on used home purchases. 

Upside Down Mortgages

Many recent home buyers will find themselves upside down with mortgages, having recently overpaid for a home as the bottom falls out of the real estate markets in America. This means people will owe the banks more than they can sell their homes for, or negative equity, especially when factoring in closing costs of actually selling the home down the road or in the future. 

Economic Inverse Precious Metal Investing

Buy Gold, Platinum, Silver, Cobalt, Nickle, Mercury, Rhodium, Palladium, when value low, sell the metals when value high & cash in on the inverse relationship between the economic health & metal prices. When the economy sick or going downhill the metal prices climb. When the economy recovering strength or going strong the price of precious metals declines. 

If you look at precious metal prices, they tend to have a negative correlation with the strength of a currency or the economy & industrial military complex that issues that fiat currency, like the Pentagon & the USD respectively vs the cost of Gold or Silver. As the USD weakens the precious metals become more expensive. 

Many precious metal investors hedge bet against the economy by buying precious metals when the currency strong at lower prices per once, then when the currency weakens & the value of the precious metal surges, the high liquidity of the metal coins or bars means that hedging metal better can cash out the metal for lots of the devalued currency to pay as good against all public & private debts, in God We Trust like the United States Dollars :) 

WARNING

TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY

Mark my words, by 2025 the US Economy will be in shambles, automobile sales will radically decline, currency inflation will increase, the price of food & fuel will climb rapidly, and large swaths of the middle class in America will be destroyed. 

Layoffs will increase as unemployment surges. The state will send out stimulus payments & alternative minimum income to people on unemployment, like they did during covid as the economy tanks worse than the 2008 mortgage market failure epidemic did, in a way that causes many world economies that adopted fiat currencies to also experience radical economic loses. 

It's going to make the future harder, less nice, more expensive & more unfair. Income inequality will continue increasing, as will merger & Acquistion monopoly formation. The words first Trillionaires will emerge as the wealthiest individuals in the world, a few of whom will have more money personally than even developed larger whole country economies. 

Crude Oil, Petrolium, Gasoline & Diesel vs Decarbonization & Climate Change

You can solar power you home with 40kWh of mono-crystaline PERN all N-Type 2023 state-of-the art or CIGS Bouge RV for ever more $ & there are even some government incentives to lower your solar roof upgrade so you can charge your EV or it & your whole home 30kWh energy storage UPS battery with grid inter-tie. 

But that is a spit in the energy bucket for society on Earth as a whole.

Even if 20% of all peoples had a big home solar PV array & battery power automobile, that leaves the other 80% to use natural gas, gasoline, diesel & jet fuel. Thats a far cry from the world today in terms of PV or BEV market penetration in the signal digit percentages. 

From cow fart harvesting with tubes up their butt's into large plastic bags, to biogas collected from compost, yard waste, or even landfill gas recovery, we are talking about drops in the energetic budget.

To energize all economies in the world today, we need trillions of watts continually. I am talking about thousands of GW scale nuclear reactors. I am talking about today in the USA using 370 million gallons of gasoline daily. If each gallon contains 34kWh of thermal chemical energy, thats 370,000,000 X 34,000 watts, or 12.5 Trillion Watt Hour of chemical energy. 

Lets use the latest bifacial PERC N-Type solar PV module that makes 400W of DC at 51.8vdc (calc for camps) for 3hr per day average over the whole year as an example. That means 1,200 watt hours per day. We would need 10.5 billion of these 400W panels to make all of that energy as electricity. But the cost to store it in batteries for 24-to-96 hours makes the $400 panels look cheap. The LCOE of Solar PV + Battery Energy Storage means electricity that costs $0.34-68 per kWh when the current national average only $0.14/ kWh. That makes conventional giga-watt scale fission power reactors seem cheap. No free lunch in physics & making those solar PV modules not eco-friendly either. 

You know there is an eco-friendly way to make use of solar & batteries, living in a tiny home & use the entire roof for as much PV as possible, a super energy efficient Sunfrost Fridge, air-source mini-split heat pump with COP of 7.1 premium efficiency (best fan blade, axial fan motor, all copper nickel alloys palladium plated corrosion resistant heat exchangers)(best working fluid, most insulated pipes) best case, all LED mostly automatic off motion sensing long life lighting, ultrasonic shower, super low energy everything. You can reduce your home energy footprint & driving a hybrid or plug in hybrid or BEV, live closer to work, work from home, use less water, use less electricity, use less heat, tolerate colder in the winter, warmer in the summer, be less wasteful & more efficient. You can compost poo outside & tinkle on it too. But what about the other 8 billion people? Can we make one of each of those for everyone? No, it’s important to understand that a 6kw 24/7/364 life for someone using only solar all year with no grid assuming 10% output needs to make 24kw for a 4 person house use, and that’s using solar that would need to be 2400kw of PV or a giant 600 array of 400w panels in a 20x30 array -^^ and some serious wiring & mounting & inverters & battery energy storage // the extra solar made in summer would have to be exported back into a large utility grid inter-tie ac IO with disconnect breaker & two way meter for in and out metering or net metering. Most home roofs can handle 10-30kw of PV panels by comparison / so you can only go all solar with extreme energy conservation & super energy efficient appliances like the SunFrost fridge made to order in California USA that uses 90% less energy than a similar typical fridge. 

Obviously many homes with 15kw or less of solar & a 10kWh or smaller battery can energize wifi & an LED LCD or OLED TV & laptop & smartphones & microwave & stove & hot water, even AC & heat, showers, toilets, the trick not to waste energy & using natural gas or propane for water heating, cooking, and air heating helps to reduce the need for bigger batteries and more watts of solar PV 

Now let’s consider the billions of existing fossil fueled vehicles of all kinds, from the Tesla Model Y, or XW60 Prius w/196HP & eAWD, to the latest Boeing 737 or Airbus A380 / they all have a carbon footprint. Don’t think for one second that electricity for charging that Model Y is not causing carbon emissions. Even fission power has a diesel mining supply chain to mine, refine, and distribute the radioactive enriched element fuels used to make the fission reaction achieve criticality with the nuclear sustained neutron flux fission reaction! 

All human activities have a carbon footprint since fissile fuels like gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, coal, propane, butane, even biomass like wood, waste incineration, natural gas, biogas, biofuels, methanol, ethanol, MTBE, and many more. Add in plastics & polymers made from crude oil, there is oil in many plastics & carpet fibers & carbon fibers & Kevlar & NOMEX, poly this or acrylic that, there is crude oil or carbon energy or carbon chemistry everywhere. So there is no getting away from carbon footprints or the hard on damaging nature aspects of industrial activity to enable 8 billion people to live at the same time!