Re: Power satellites was "and the rest of you"

At 12:04 Tuesday 04-03-14, Keith Henson wrote:
>[...]  Time to displace fossil fuels
>is a bit over two decades from the start.



Will probably take at least that long before second- and third-hand 
"used" electric vehicles get cheap enough for those who today cannot 
afford anything newer than that in a gasoline-powered vehicle to 
start being able to afford to replace their current vehicles that 
they have to have to get to work, school, the grocery store, the 
doctor, etc.  It's also highly unlikely that things will change 
enough any sooner than that in most places in the US and elsewhere 
outside of a few densely-packed urban centers like NYC for most 
people to be able to do without individual powered transportation for 
those necessary trips:  IOW, most places I've lived the bus or other 
public transportation is only good for going downtown in the morning 
and coming back in the evening after "regular business hours," and 
not even that from many places where people live, and most people 
have too far to go or have disabilities or other health conditions 
which would prevent them from walking or riding a bicycle to/from 
work, even when it's not raining or other inclement weather, or their 
job requires them to arrive in a suit or other specified attire, 
looking and smelling fresh, and stay that way all day, and the 
business doesn't have and probably has no place to install locker 
rooms with showers.  Then there are the ones who have to carry tools 
or samples or other bulky items with them, and pretty much everyone 
who has to bring groceries home or take kids to the doctor or 
multiple kids to multiple schools, music lessons, soccer practice, etc. . . .


. . . ronn!  :)

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