Re:To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems
by lafar6502 on Sunday February 11, 2018 @07:33AM
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Why everyone talks about switching to electric cars while nobody ever mentions electric heating of buildings as environmentally friendly alternative? Because it isn’t? Why bother with electricity-saving lightbulbs while EV owners burn the current like there’s no tomorrow...
Re:To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems
by mseebach on Sunday February 11, 2018 @06:19AM
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There's plenty, like a lot, of shale oil available at $80-100/bbl, which allows for significantly less than $10/g gas.
The only meaningful challenge to $10/g gas is policy (ie taxation).
The consequences and repercussions of global warming and climate change plus Nixon era doctrine of interventionalist policy in the interest of maintaining global US oil hegemony have easily put real barrel cost easily above this. Iraq didnt pay for itself twice, after all.