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    A friend and I went to Burbank's Fry's Electronics in 1998 to check things out. That's where for the first time I saw a flat screen Philips TV - 46" for $14,000 - and it wasn't even an HD (it was SD, 480P).

    As to the energy production - most of is likely to move off-grid, made and consumed for the household itself. The oil prices should decline precipitously within a decade, driving most high cost producers out. The gasoline prices are likely to be very low, not counting taxes imposed on drivers.

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      Originally posted by DLD View Post

      As to the energy production - most of is likely to move off-grid, made and consumed for the household itself.
      Apparently only 1/3 of electricity consumption is residential? 1/3 industrial, 1/3 commercial. of course, those sectors could also produce energy locally. But I would think that everyone still needs access to the grid for surge capacity and off-hours supply

      https://www.epa.gov/energy/electricity-customers
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        My wife isn't getting much traction with regards to a gown and jewelry for the Oscars. All the big names are saying "Who the fudge is Paul F?". So I'm looking for a gown on Aliexpress and I also ordered this; I can hear it now, when we are on the red carpet. "Who are you wearing?". My wife, proudly: "Oh this is Treaszy". - https://www.aliexpress.us/item/22518...d=VyjwxFwiAYdm
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          Better off going here; this is where most athletes, rappers - celebrities - get their out-and-about jewelry besides the really rich ones who are okay with wearing $100,000, $250,000+ on their neck, wrist, etc.

          https://www.thegldshop.com/pages/gld-women

          The stuff is actually really nice.

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            That does look like nice stuff. I don't know. For $3.70 I'm going to go with Treazy. I showed it to my wife and she is thrilled.

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              Originally posted by ahalpert View Post

              Apparently only 1/3 of electricity consumption is residential? 1/3 industrial, 1/3 commercial. of course, those sectors could also produce energy locally. But I would think that everyone still needs access to the grid for surge capacity and off-hours supply

              https://www.epa.gov/energy/electricity-customers
              But, at some point, a typical household will own two or more electric cars too and that's where a portion of the "home made" juice will go. Technically speaking, one could sell it to the neighbors as well.

              In Europe, a lot of solar panels are installed on commercial roof-tops. There are far fewer NY/Miami type hi-rises and they supply enough energy for the smaller size office buildings. Then someone else has been working on window solar panel designs - transparent and glued to outer walls or glass on mid and hi-rises. Then there was a German company that made inexpensive, short range vehicles with roof top solar panels that could theoretically be able to skip plug-ins entirely. A perpetual mobile of sorts. They had some interest but went broke and closed the shop. Their cars were sort of like golf cart size. (would be perfect for driving right on stage during a Celine Dion song). A light car needs about a KW for 5-7 miles (Mercedes claimed to have gotten 7 miles/11 KM per one KW/H on a sedan), so if one could get 6-8 KWH, one could drive ~ 30 miles or so daily. But costs were too high to attract further investors.

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                And more on solar panels

                "Scientists led by Saudi Arabia’s KAUST have achieved a power conversion efficiency of 33.7% for a perovskite-silicon solar cell. KAUST Professor Erkan Aydin made the announcement on its LinkedIn account.
                KAUST claims 33.7% efficiency for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell – pv magazine International (pv-magazine.com)

                A typical photo-voltaic solar panel is ~ 20-21%, so 33.7%, presuming it's practical in production, is 50% greater. Which drops the cost of energy produced by the same solar panels by roughly a half. Which is pretty gnarly. And really bleeping awesome.

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                  They expect it to be even better than that due to the lower cost of materials.
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                    PV's went up in price (the same for oil, the same for wind) after the Ukraine war started because of the rush away from the Russian gas and into the all sorts of the renewables. But plans to expand production had been underway beforehand also. In 2022, the global PV panel production was around 200 GW, now it's close to 300, next year it's expected to reach 400 and, by 2026, as much as 600 GW.

                    Hypothetically speaking - though it's probably not realistic - one could shuttle the already charged solar panels from warmer climates such as Northern Africa across the Middeterranian and/or Atlantic in day or two and then back and forth without building very long underwater cables. A large transport with the PV's on its deck could even charge its panels while already in transit and/or be connected to a much shorter underwater lines. The US pondered a Morocco-or-England line that would be something like 4,000 miles. A moving lines would be much shorter. But I am just fantasizing.

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                      Photo voltaics don't store the electricity, they just convert to it.

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                        Originally posted by Tom Roper View Post
                        Photo voltaics don't store the electricity, they just convert to it.
                        That's why batteries exist ... but they don't need to be exposed to the sun.

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                          The OPEC had its meetings, which didn't prevent Goldman Sachs from expecting a further price dump.

                          The Chinese car market was 34% electric or hybrid in March alone (~ 534,000 cars sold in China March had batteries). Plus, there seem to be quite a bit of smuggled Russian oil that is sold at minuscule levels.

                          Brent is at ~ $72 and isn't likely to keep on climbing. Yet, certain politicians are extolling the US oil producers to keep drilling. At even above cost.

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                            I never could figure out why the US is in such a hurry to consume its oil reserves. If I were king, I'd have us consuming everybody else's oil and keeping ours for tougher times.
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                              https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news...e3c44ac2f&ei=9

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                                Predictions about the future are so much fun. Electric cars and Chat GPT being the latest technology about which we peer into the future. We should collect all the articles like this and then re-read them 20 years from now.

                                Grandchildren of the television age won’t be able to read. That was a popular saying when I was growing up.

                                In 1904, The New York Times reported on a debate in Paris between a brain specialist and a physician about the dangers of driving automobiles at high speeds—because the brain can’t keep up. “It remains to be proved how fast the brain is capable of traveling,”

                                Electricity is just a fad - So said Junius Morgan to his son J.P. Morgan. J.P. had hired Thomas Edison to wire up his mansion, making it the first private residence in New York to have electric lighting. Luckily for his bank account, J.P. Morgan didn’t listen to dad,

                                In 1950, Associated Press writer Dorothy Roe used what she called “scientific evidence” to predict that by the year 2000, all women will be six feet tall.
                                Awarded Best Clear Com Chatter, 2001, PBS Television

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