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It's even more of a benefit if the vehicle has the fittings which enable it to act as a power bank in the event of a grid power failure, so house electrics such as refrigerators can be kept operating.

While I understand your mindset, I can't agree with it. My father died because he was terrified of doctors and hospitals, and put off diagnosis of his symptoms until it was too late. Bladder cancer is first detectable by painless haematuria, a small spurt of blood when urinating. Months can elapse between occurrences, and it is easily ignored. I would probably not be posting this if I had done nothing about the symptom, or delayed. That was 17 years ago. Your choice.

Cost analysis of SMR's ( Small Modular Reactors ) indicates they are uneconomic. https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/12/21/cost-small-nuclear-csiro

I believe you. I give cash, not gift cards which at best tie the recipient to the store issuing the card. As I said, the fraud department of my credit union is quite vigilant. YMMV.

You may be right in saying both technologies can co-exist. Neither will be environmentally responsible until they are entirely refueled from renewable energy. As it stands, about two-thirds of generated electricity worldwide still comes from fossil fuel power plants. Hydrogen is no better if it is derived from cracking methane. It is estimated by your favorite YouTube poster if Australia was to convert every ICE to an EV overnight, we would only reduce CO2 emissions by 9%. That's because we ship millions of tons of coal to China and India.

The last thread you posted as OP said you had the health issue for over 10 days. I posted I would be getting myself to a hospital after 2-3 days. I am assuming you have not been to a clinic or hospital yet. Why are you being so stubborn?

I don't have a debit card with a bank, I use a credit union. I've never been scammed on the debit card. The credit union's fraud section has called me several times when I have made a transaction from an unfamiliar place, or for a large amount, to verify the card user is myself. I fail to see why any financial institution should have a different response to fraud, depending on whether the card is credit or debit.

I was in Australia for six months this year. If not for withdrawing cash once as a gift, all my transactions there would have been done using a debit card.

If someone wants my business, they can either accept cash, or a debit card. If neither of those options work, it's goodbye. I don't trust phone apps. They have had serious problems with data breaches, and harvest personal information.

I am predicting hydrogen will eventually win out, for several reasons. 1/ There simply is not enough lithium and other elements available to do a complete conversion of all the ICE's in the world to electric. 2/ Auto manufacturers have very little to do by way of conversion of a fossil fuel ICE to a hydrogen ICE. Storage onboard is their principal challenge. 3/ Right now, hydrogen is no more virtuous than fossil fuel, because most is produced by cracking methane.The situation will change when electrolysis of water, fueled by solar or wind energy, takes over. 4/ Bulk transport of hydrogen will become practical by conversion to ammonia, and reconstitution at the point of sale. The technology is there, it's just a matter of ramping up to production volumes.

Let's not forget those aftermarket conversions had taxpayer funding and political blessing either. The West Gate Bridge is a 10 lane carriageway, five lanes either way. I have yet to hear of an ICE truck fire that has closed that bridge for several hours. I haven't heard of an ICE fire on a cargo ship capable of sinking said ship either. It will probably take an EV fire in the Mullum Mullum or Melba tunnels, for people to wake up to the fact while passenger EV's may be safe enough, EV trucks are cruising time bombs.

There is one aspect of nuclear power which seems to be ignored by its proponents. A fossil fuel plant can be decommissioned and demolished, the land may be put to other uses. Nuclear power plants irradiate the steel and other materials of their construction. Consequently, the only thing that can be done with a nuclear facility which has reached the end of its service life is to seal it up in concrete, just as if it was a failed reactor. Then wait a few thousand years.

Thank you for saving me the trouble of explaining to one of the resident d!ckheads what John Cadogan was on about. EV trucks don't make any sense. The average diesel engine in a truck weighs 200 kg. To match that output, a battery pack for an truck needs to be 2000 kg. Why would any truck operator sacrifice 20% of their carrying capacity, except when subsidized by taxpayers, and facilitated by woke politicians?

I would not let myself suffer an illness for ten days, I'd be looking for a diagnosis and treatment after 2-3 days.

I fail to understand what your point is in posting one of my responses from an entirely different thread. If you don't agree with what I post, put me on ignore. Easiest way to get me to go away.

I can't argue with his math, two battery fires in truck EV's which works out as 250 times more likely to happen than with the ICE fleet, admittedly from a small EV population. I focus on the facts and logic he puts into his videos, perhaps your attention span can't get that far.

In my GF's village, which is surrounded by rice fields, the average wage is 2500 baht/month. Most of the villagers work the rice fields, grow a lot of their own food, and go further afield for laboring or building employment. Working in the rice fields is 300 baht/day for the men, 200 baht/day for the women. Rice does not need tending every day. Planting and harvesting are when it is all hands on deck. The fields are cropped twice a year. I can only imagine what it is like in Issan, where there is only enough water to crop once a year.

The liver has the job of processing alcohol. The same goes for dealing with the fructose in grapes. I've seen people here die of liver cirrhosis, it's not pretty. Perhaps you're a troll who likes posting insults. Try for something witty next time.

Nobody saw the practicality of EV's for a long time either, until battery technology advanced sufficiently. Electric wise, heavy duty vehicles have some way to go.

How would you know? Do you really think anyone on the distaff side of your family is going to admit they have been selling sex?

Our neighbor in the village has half a dozen mutts. Every night, they will bark and howl for about ten minutes at 2 am. I doesn't bother me. It reminds me to get up and have a pee.

Are you buying one? I would have thought an EV would be ideal for Bangkok.

These EV's must be miraculous if they don't need brake fluid, wheel bearing maintenance, steering hydraulics, brake linings and tyres.

It passed the last annual inspection. Mind you, I've seen vehicles passed in the test facility that should be in a junkyard.

There's a very good reason an EV owner would not buy another ICE. It would shoot down their false virtue signalling in flames. I don't mind taking the advice of an experienced EV owner. I certainly don't want the advice of a biased one.