Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Going all Electric isn't all good: It's a tradeoff of problems: One kind for another

 I'm going to start in a strange place but I think you will understand my point quite quickly.

For example, our natural gas line to our Santa Barbara house started leaking. We had people come and find it by putting hydrogen through our lines? The leak was in the yard which was good so my daughter and her husband didn't blow up in their sleep with the house one night. Then we were told it would cost 20,000 dollars to replace this gas line. We said "No!" We will go all electric instead.

But, here's the problem. The Electric company wasn't going to give us enough power soon enough for us to switch to electric water heaters and electric stove. A friend helped us with this. Then we decided to solarize our home there with Solar Panels. It was more expensive than we thought to do all this. However, now we want to actually use those panels and we cannot because we can't get the City and County to pass them in a timely way. It could be one more year before we actually get the panels passed so we can save 800 to 1000 a month so they panels start paying for themselves generating power. Then we thought about buying Tesla Battery (35,000 dollars) and we said "No" for now with that because one of our son in laws sells solar Systems in San Diego and said they don't work very well. So, our investment on a new roof and a new solar array is at least 75,000 dollars at this point and with all the changes beyond that with electric water heaters and electric stoves and electrician's bills to make the stove and water heating and electric heating and air conditioning of the house likely has taken this bill up to 100,000 dollars or more. But, we STILL haven't been able to get the City or County to pass what has been done So, this might cost us around 10,000 dollars in lost solar electricity during the next 12 months time. And we are among thousands and thousands of Californians right now trying to do the same thing.

This will be multiplied a million fold as the country is forced to become more all electric and be very expensive for everyone too in ways unimaginable at present with all the inconveniences.

Is it good to have electric Cars? maybe. But on many different levels this is debatable.

Because Gasoline or Diesel Cars won't make you sick eventually from Electromagnetic radiation from either generating and using electricity in Hybrids or just Using electricity in All electric Vehicles.

Also, if you live in California, Oregon or Washington you can find EV All Electric Chargers for Cars while you wait 75 minutes or so for your car or truck to recharge along the way. But, if you go east of these three states you better have a hybrid which will ALWAYS expose you to much more Electromagnetic radiation both as it is being generated by the gas or diesel engine but also as the electric motors use the electricity.

So, there is even more to it if you consider just how polluting electric Car Batteries are to the environment where if you don't recycle these batteries you will start killing all sorts of wildlife and plants around the world.

So, like I said before. It's all a tradeoff of one thing for another. And is it worth it to change?

I don't really know if the solution is better than what we presently have. It's just most people don't talk about all the problems that going all electric is going to cause worldwide.

They just talk about how we won't be burning fossil fuels as much.

However, that is bullshit too!

 Because how is electricity generated in California mostly in the first place?

With NATURAL GAS!

So, thinking you are only using electricity is bullshit to begin with!

You are burning fossil fuels to generate the electricity we all will use!

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