Quote from 1000:
Ask the owner of Paypal. Or even the governor of California, he said it was "very nice."
The cars are here. One costs about $100,000 right now. In about 3 years from now the cost should be much less. They do 250miles on a full charge.
Those are some serious high end electric cars. The ones I have examined typically get 60-80 mile roundtrip, which is more than efficient. We have done rough numbers, you can make one without mass production for under $15-20k. It's way worth it for someone to buy it for about $25-35k because electric vechiles have minimal wear & tear which significantly adds to the already high fuel savings. Plus the environmental aspect is worth quite a bit.
Quote from raidawg:
oil (and not coal, or solar, ???) is still king for the auto/airplane industry.
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For airplanes, of course, there is no alternative and won't be for a while. There is no technology to move the jets on a pure electric charge, there is some experimental out there it's not practical because it's not realistic for the length of the flight paths. But those are the least of the problems, most CO2 & SO2 emissions come from plants and autos.
Today's automobiles are simply outddated, the technology for a pure electric automobile is at least a decade old. The battery charge is there, the engine is there and even a conversion is easily done. Either way, the logical & optimal future for all of the world is to base the main energy source on electricity.
I'll say this much, think crisis scenario with power down. What do you think is the easiest, most practical, most versatile and most moble way to power up key locations. U.S. army is already experiementing with it in Arizona.
Quote from Landis82:
You can't be serious, eh?
Ever hear of a place called the New York Metro area?
How about most of California?
As far as your claim that firefighters, police, and eletricians make "on average" $40,000 . . . you are so far off that it isn't even funny! Where exactly do YOU live???
County nurses at my local county hospital make $40.00 per hour . . . that comes out to $83,000 per year. A police academy graduate can expect to earn between $62,000 - $76,000 per year at my local police department. And that is for a "town" with a population of 65,000. EMT's in my area make atleast $85,000 per year and with a little overtime are pushing $100k easy.
Again, where exactly is it that YOU live?
That's nothing, NYU Medical Center nurses all make above 120k a year, most closer to 200k and over. But then, being a nurse is a shitty job, pun intended. And it's a perpetual shortage, so they all working nonstop overtime. It's funny, they are essentially uneducated ghetto trash with horrible attitudes, but hey, the money is there for nurses nowdays. My friend works at NYU payroll, if you're curious how I know.
Let's be realistic, as a police officer, teacher, firefighter you ain't getting a job in a cushy suburban district unless you know someone or are someone's relative. Realistically, you're going to the metro areas, where the demand actually is and the pay is not. Metro cops start at 35k a year, maybe less now. Don't believe those NYC ads you see on the train, sometimes all they offer is 28k a year. Most teachers start making crap as well, same goes for firefighters. You can look at the special places where the money is out of line because of an affluent good area with high tax revenue, but on average these professions start at rock bottom barely sustainable pay rates. If you do choose to teach in a bad district, such as parts of Brooklyn, most of Bronx and NYC public schools, the money is good but for even better reasons. Still a shortage in those schools, obviously not for nothing.
In general, it comes down to overtime, thats how nurses start pulling in the big numbers. Metro cops pretty much rely on overtime to survive the first several years, so do firefighters. As for nurses, if you are all about the money, go do 2 years at a nursing school, the demand is huge & growing for the American pill popping diseased population. The rates only keep going up, overtime is always there. Little brains required, lack of any respectful proper attitude is not a must, you do not even have to speak English.
So hey, if you fail at trading you can always go make a sure 6 figures as a nurse. What a country.
