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OH! I recall those days! Magnesium really, really burns! When mags - were mags.

I want an EV like I want a root canal followed by a chainsaw vasectomy. I'd never park an EV in my garage. Those things abruptly catch on fire - and if you know anything about lithium - water is not going to put it out. Burn your house down! I'd never get a good night's sleep knowing what I...

Waiting for the E-Yugo - runs off a washing machine motor and hits 40 mph with intermittent brakes.

Good new is - you can get a bicycle with electric motor and battery pack that will do 60mph, and will go up around 150 miles in range. Electric cars are fine for piddling around town - but crap for covering country. And even worse - or worser when the weather is bad/cold. You short out...

Exactly. Or a National breakdown of our very fragile network of power delivery systems. Terrorists who drop major power lines. We're always about one day from returning to the mid-1800's.

Oh yeah. This past Winter, in many areas, the electric vehicles sat at home or on the side of the road. The brilliant California leaders - (The Land of Dumbazzes) didn't have enough electricity to provide sufficient power to charge electric cars, and almost had to resort to rolling blackouts...

I'll give you another - and use a example that's not the exact same - but one most folks are familiar with. We've all seen the "stones" in fish aquariums that are in essence tiny pieces of stones or ceramic pressed together in some matrix/adhesive that acts to spread the gas around through...

I know what you're asking - but not going there for good reasons. So I'll just say this - The second half of the physics book. But with the REAL, ACTUAL Maxwell's Equations. Quaternions. The Maxwell's Equations taught in universities - are NOT Maxwell's Equations. Rather, a seriously...

Several years ago I held in the palm of my hand a generator with an output of 4.8kW that weighed maybe a pound and a half. The very next day, I held in the palm of my hand a generator with an output of 7.2kW that weighed maybe a couple ounces more. Each one would run for several weeks without...

That's fine. Hydrogen doesn't require as much mining and destruction - except for the energy to split the hydrogen from the oxygen. Where's that coming from? Coal fired plants? Wind power? Lots of steel, polymers, resins, chromium, processed ceramics, and another twenty five items that much...

Not knocking Tesla's, nor any other electric or hybrid. Just pointing out that this is not a clean energy - and is much, much more destructive on the frontend and during processing than the end result that is the only things folks see. Like at the grocery story - all the meat is cut, trimmed...

One Tesla Battery requires: Mining 500 tons of ore to refine 25 lbs of Lithium, 900-1000 gallons of fuel to move the ore, and Lithium is refined by sulfuric acid. The Lithium mine at Thacker Pass requires 75 semi loads of acid per day. 25 lbs of lithium 60 lbs of nickel 44 lbs of manganese 30...