Okay. Looking at this further... Perhaps I am an idiot on this, but I'm not following how this vehicle takes compressed air and turns it into the vehicle moving. ^_^;;;
The ten minute charge time is probably based on the idea of being able to recharge the vehicle at something like a gas station. If one charges the vehicle overnight at home, then charging speed would be less of an issue, but for some uses that might be inadequate. If someone spent large amounts of time travelling, it wouldn't work for them unless recharging facilities were available at hotels and such.
The biggest problem I think would still be enough clean energy production. Less efficient vehicles might be okay with a good enough energy source, but no technologically likely electric car is going to be an improvement if a coal burning power plant is providing the electricity.
Got any links to information on these "smoke stack" windmills? It doesn't sound quite like anything I've been able to find information on.
-Morgan. Mmmmm... rice."This continuity is now a Princess of Darkness crossover."
"... They're all going to die, aren't they?"
"Yep. Popcorn?"
Quote:I have a novel around here, one of whose setting elements is that the city of Phoenix was roofed over with solar panels. Everyone who lived *outside* the city loved it, as did everyone who lived above the panels. The people below? Not so happy. '.'
Large scale solar eats up lots of land and screws up the local landscape in deserts and like useful areas for solar power farming.
The ten minute charge time is probably based on the idea of being able to recharge the vehicle at something like a gas station. If one charges the vehicle overnight at home, then charging speed would be less of an issue, but for some uses that might be inadequate. If someone spent large amounts of time travelling, it wouldn't work for them unless recharging facilities were available at hotels and such.
The biggest problem I think would still be enough clean energy production. Less efficient vehicles might be okay with a good enough energy source, but no technologically likely electric car is going to be an improvement if a coal burning power plant is providing the electricity.
Got any links to information on these "smoke stack" windmills? It doesn't sound quite like anything I've been able to find information on.
-Morgan. Mmmmm... rice."This continuity is now a Princess of Darkness crossover."
"... They're all going to die, aren't they?"
"Yep. Popcorn?"