Need better batteries.

Combine that with regenerative breaking and the fact that 20% of the US power grid is from hydro power plants

I mean, at the car charging stations, the prices fluctuate like crazy, where at night, its pretty much free, to the afternoon where its realyl fucking expensive

Actually, I think the best argument for nuclear power is that The Simpsons, which has a track record of foreshadowing (if not outright predicting) future events, features Homer Simpson working at a nuclear power plant

Dont get me wrong though, combustion power is definately not very efficient

especially with how much of it going to heat energy

firey explosion energy

@GingaBomber Yeah, the least efficient part of a car's engine is the combustion reaction

But electric cars still have to solve alot of issues

@GingaBomber most people charge their cars at night though

I don't see any problems with electric vehicles

And I can argue that i can refuel any time of the day

o7

I put my faith in the thought that by trying to build a self sustaining colony on Mars will result in us not needing to worry about global warming aside from trying to maintain things that are astecticly pleasing

How long till the environmentalists complain

I think we need more advances in AI/Robotics before we can actually commit the resources to any moon/planet colonizing.

Exosuits, for example.

And what has musk been doing?

His best.

But we need more people can just Musk.

Grandstanding

If you don't force a hard deadline one yourself, things will never get done.

Musk has been grandstanding

When they say outstanding in his field, ill be more likely to assume it literally than metaphorically

Didn't Newt Gingritch say we'd have a moon colony by 2020 if he was elected president in 2008/12?

That shit was hilarious.

I think that's because he was going to concentrate funding on NASA, but it was still a *very* optimistic estimate

Only reason id see them building a moon base is for taking advantage of the low grav for scientific research

the low gravity there wouldnt be good on the body

There is very little reason to build something on the moon except maybe to act as a place to build large craft

I think the quickest way for us to create artifical gravity fields would be to be forced onto another celestial surface.

Just tell the government we found the possibility of there being oil on the moon.
Problem solved.

The ISS is great, but that isn't a planet or moon.

the moon is boring asf

not much reason to live there

Sorry, that was a bad joke on my part. I wasn't even trying. lol

mars however is an absolute gold mine

'eh.

Mars might be worth.

Do we know if it has any exploitables?

We could turn the moon into a giant weapon's platform.