Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoBringing trucks of volatile explosive substance into every corner of the vast empty space, storing it somehow, maintaining the infrastructure for safe distribution: normal, cool, easy, makes sense.
Having a working outlet attached to a cable that already transmits electricity: unrealistic magical technology that just cannot possibly exist.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gasoline is not a “volatile explosive”. Movies make people think that shooting a gas tank will make it detonate.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gasoline is not a “volatile explosive”. However, it is a volatile, explosive substance. That’s like the main reason it is in use. People forget how volatile and how explosive it is, because they handle it often, and because they know that you can shoot a gas tank and it wouldn’t immediately detonate most of the times, only some time.