How Things I Saw Work or Some Will Hate This for Reasons I Don't Know...

Alterative energy production has always interested me. Wind power, sun power these things are free last I looked. I'm always looking at improving solar performance on our camper which has a factory set up that meets our current needs and with a trip planned this week I checked the battery levels and this is what the solar does with just the bit of western sun that shines in the garage each evening. I have not used the camper since late June and 13.6 means fully charged and ready to go. 

These solar panels operate the lake camp in Canada where we recently visited certainty kept my phone charged and you can read more about that on this blog. Certainty not an economy set up but it's an island and this is all that is available.   

I heard a piece on public radio  about a new electric truck that Ford has in the works. Of course there will be some extensive retooling for the project and there are many unanswered questions but with prices predicted at $30,000 (see a theme here) I'm interested. Of course this truck probably won't pull a camper or a boat but it would be a handy daily driver to do the chores such as the furniture deliveries I did for St. Vincent de Paul this past Friday or haul all my cooking gear up to the Swim Club Blood Drive yesterday in a more economical manner saving my big truck for the big jobs it was made for.    

 

I made this photo somewhere in the Texas panhandle on a trip a couple of months ago. You have heard the old saying "nothing between here and the north pole but a barbed wire fence" so I would guess that has has something to do with the fact I saw acres and acres of windmills. There is wind. I will admit that I saw what appeared to be out of commission windmills so these things are not forever but neither is my big truck. Things move along. I'm actually old enough to have known people who thought the tractor was the work of the devil. 

With all this evidence that solar power and wind power works and the late stage capitalism of the big auto maker is betting on battery powered cars why are there barriers to these developments?   China (still the bad guys last I heard) has the largest electric vehicle market in the world. 

Flying cars would be ok but electric cars, solar power and wind power, yes. What's stopping us?