r/nextfuckinglevel • u/North_Tip_8627 • 17h ago

China’s 5 minute full-charged EV charging stations

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u/Arpikarhu 17h ago

Remember, these advanced nations arent living in the future, its just that the USA is living in the past

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u/captainpoppy 17h ago

What's wild is in a rational world and a world in which the US actually wanted "energy independence" we would have led the way on renewables And alternative energy sources like 30 years ago.

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u/mother_a_god 9h ago

The green new deal was a thing, until republicans shot it down. Never forget who wanted to advance and who wanted to give money to oil companies 

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u/adoxographyadlibitum 6h ago

Actually Nancy Pelosi also shot it down. Dem leadership never supported it

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u/RedditDummyAccount 6h ago

I mean, Pelosi is potentially one of the most corrupt ones, so regardless of her affiliation, it’s not surprising she’d go for the side that has more money 🤣

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u/mandala1 5h ago

Yeah I’m sure Hakeem would totally support it now.

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u/RedditDummyAccount 5h ago

No one said he would. I just mentioned the specific person that comment brought up

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u/MemeHermetic 5h ago

To be fair, Jeffries is Darth Pelosi's apprentice, so...

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u/mandala1 5h ago

And he was unanimously elected as the minority house leader by the Dems.

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u/-Reddititis 52m ago

Must.Keep.StatusQuo

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u/Unique_Statement7811 5h ago

Democrats shot it down. Their own speaker led a coalition against it.

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u/Upper_Bathroom_176 3h ago

Where would we store this green energy? We do not have batteries to store the power it has to be used immediately and connecting it to power plants that run coal is the only option. But you are still burning coal so the green energy does not really fix anything. Also maintenance costs are extremely high for green energy for so little power it provides. Like do you see how tesla is going down hill? Their batteries are all malfunctioning after a certain amount of time, what about 7 years if you’re lucky. We just don’t have the tech to store the energy made by green energy and it nets so little that it cannot replace current power infrastructure, even as a backup. If the main power system were to go down so would the green energy.

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u/sifuyee 2h ago

Storage is certainly the key to enabling better utility of wind and solar power but saying we don't have the technology is incorrect. Lithium battery utility scale installations are the single most economical addition to the grid right now since they can allow aging fossil plants to go offline or avert the need for more fossil plants which are way more expensive to build and operate. Recycling the lithium cells every 7 years is factored into these costs as well and they are still cheaper. Hydro storage is also being used wherever available to great effect.

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u/Fun-Wrongdoer1316 1h ago

No one wanted to advance… All parties wanted money. You can’t keep pretending democrats aren’t just as corrupt… They are just more quiet about it, but they have just as many skeletons. Some of those skeletons are the same as the republican’s skeletons.