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Now, if you can protect your inverters (lead casing for example) and do similar to your EV, you're more likely to be back on the road sooner. That said, the same issue of the entire globe coming to a halt might be the bigger issue at that point. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
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Well my carby car can take me to a few good beaches nearby, might as well surf the apocalypse. Actually I reckon it wouldn't be too bad - country town, can grow own food. Things would slow down like in the first covid lockdown: do you love where you live?
I like the idea of hardening the electric infrastructure - have we built in anything like that to our grid/EVs? Edit: in this situation, a push-bike becomes a Rolls Royce
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I doubt we have built protection into our systems. Maybe the US and Russia did out of fears of a nuclear weapon during the cold war and associated EMP from the gamma radiation. Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk
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Certainly would work for some, Ironic you work in the coal industry though
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Steaming coal as well as coking/ metaliferous coal grades to those countries that make things… If it came down to it, I’d prefer to have a car that runs in electric that charges from coal mined here than giving my dollars to OPEC that gives little or nothing in return. If all that achieves is keeping my dollars in Australia then so be it. |
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Even if I bought an electric car and charged it partly on coal, at least I am contributing to that supply rather than some foreign oil. However V8's are cool though and I want one of them. Quote:
I know that the vast majority of coal trains in NSW are ECP. No chance of them running after a solar flare. That's assuming coal mining and coal plants can run. I assume they wouldn't be able to. Every time I think of solar flares it reminds me to get me fruit and veggie garden in better shape. |
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