Reporting for NJ.com, Larry Higgs expounds on
the virtues of electric busses as opposed to diesel-powered ones, now that the
first ones have arrived in New Jersey. In Electric
buses are in N.J., and more are coming. We tried them, Higgs reports:
In the race to be the greenest, the Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey has put the first electric buses on the road in New Jersey. It
purchased 18 Proterra
electric buses to use in shuttle
service at its three major airports. The first buses went in service at Newark
Liberty International Airport on Thursday, running on the airport’s 24/7
shuttle. [sic]
They seem pretty cool. I posted these comments:
Great idea. Seriously. These
buses look like technological marvels. It certainly is progressive to replace
fossil fuel transportation with electric where feasible. This moves power
generation from individual vehicles to central power plants, where air
pollution can much more easily be controlled and mitigated.
But how will you keep all
these batteries charged, on demand? Keeping these electricity-guzzling
behemoths going will need plenty of not just clean but reliable
electricity-generating capacity. So-called “renewable energy” notwithstanding,
the key word is reliable. Where will that clean, reliable
electricity-generating capacity come from if the “Greens” win their war against
natural gas pipelines and nat-gas generating plants and nuclear power?
Of course, the Greens are not
interested in progress. Fundamentally, they are ideologically opposed to
industrial progress, as such. On principle, “green” means neo-primitive
regression to pre-industrial living--or as close to it as is politically
feasible. Their agenda is to make human living harder, not cleaner. They seek
to “protect the Earth,” not human flourishing and well-being. It is a dark
agenda.
People have been trying
forever to simultaneously have their cake and eat it. It can’t be done. If “the race to be the
greenest” means transitioning
to electric transportation, then it also must mean the impediments to expanded
reliable electricity generation must be eased, not hampered. This means defeating
the Dark Greens’ anti-reliable energy agenda.
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2 comments:
I remember during the mid-20th' century the in bigger mid-western cities used electric buses. But they didn't run on batteries or 3rd. rails. They ran on power from overhead cables strung out over the bus routes Why not now? Why were they discontinued?
Good question.
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