{"id":12105,"date":"2010-05-29T10:01:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12105"},"modified":"2010-06-26T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T14:43:49","slug":"if-wind-and-solar-power-were-practical-entrepreneurs-would-invest-in-it-there-would-be-no-need-for-government-to-take-money-from-taxpayers-and-give-it-to-people-pushing-green-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12105\/if-wind-and-solar-power-were-practical-entrepreneurs-would-invest-in-it-there-would-be-no-need-for-government-to-take-money-from-taxpayers-and-give-it-to-people-pushing-green-products\/","title":{"rendered":"“If wind and solar power were practical, entrepreneurs would invest in it. There would be no need for government to take money from taxpayers and give it to people pushing green products.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Stossel on the phractured physics of “green” energy:<\/a><\/p>\n

Maybe the electric car is the next big thing?<\/p>\n

“Electric cars are the next big thing, and they always will be.”<\/p>\n

There have been impressive headlines about electric cars from my brilliant colleagues in the media. The Washington Post said, “Prices on electric cars will continue to drop until they’re within reach of the average family.”<\/p>\n

That was in 1915.<\/p>\n

In 1959, The New York Times said, “Electric is the car of the tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

In 1979, The Washington Post said, “GM has an electric car breakthrough in batteries, now makes them commercially practical.”<\/p>\n

I’m still waiting.<\/p>\n

“The problem is very simple,” Bryce said. “It’s not political will. It’s simple physics. Gasoline has 80 times the energy density of the best lithium ion batteries. There’s no conspiracy here of big oil or big auto. It’s a conspiracy of physics.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, Stossel is pop-science. You can only go so far with him. But this may be the only article you will see that explains why so many of the highly-touted environmentaloid “solutions” are pipe-dreams, based in wishful thinking and a math education that foundered on the shoals of Algebra. Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Stossel on the phractured physics of “green” energy: Maybe the electric car is the next big thing? “Electric cars are the next big thing, and they always will be.” There have been impressive headlines about electric cars from my brilliant colleagues in the media. The Washington Post said, “Prices on electric cars will continue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,29,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18505,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18505\/overnight-news-whats-an-even-better-joke-than-electric-cars-silent-motorcycles\/","url_meta":{"origin":12105,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: What\u2019s an even better joke than electric cars? 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