As for affordable – you can’t build big stuff quickly and cheaply. China might finance their reactors out of pocket (and ignore loss of return on capital) but that isn’t going to happen outside of a command economy.

Suggest you don’t view UToob as a credible source. Spend some time reading papers on the cost of reactor construction.

Watch this and get educated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUeBSoEnRk

There’s no way that power from a LFTR could be produced for under $0.10/kWh. Try something more like 15 cents – lots of construction costs and lots of financing costs.

At a dime per kWh you’re looking at 3.5 cents per mile.

The real winning supply here is wind. It’s cheap as heck at night when most would want to charge up.

Having been in a wreck in which one of the gas tanks ruptured and the spilt fuel caught on fire I’ll take the three week delay, thank you.

I have been following the paths of renewable energy posts such as Clean Technica for now over two years since “running away” from Zimbabwe to Wales three and a half years ago.

I must say right from the start that I am a firm believer in community cooperative ownership of energy production either as “farm installations” or individual home owned installations of solar panels and/or wind, especially small scale vertical turbines.

However there is another area of potential for energy production, where it there seems to me very little notice is taken – bio-digestion. Just think of all the “hot air” trapped in human dumped waste, especially the considerable amount released out of animal orifices, which could be converted into fuel to drive the generators to supply the electricity you need to charge your batteries.

Community owned bio-digesters situated at current sewerage work sites are surely a strategy for consideration in the immediate future?

It doesn’t seem to matter if I’m sitting in bumper traffic or moving along swiftly, I still tend to use about the same amount of power to get to work…about 18 cents worth if I charge at night. One way trip is 18km. Ignoring the cost of the car, cost to operate might be similar to when I’m riding my bike to work;) And there is NO range anxiety, just going onto gas anxiety!

Never thought I’d by a Chevy (my last car was a Mini Cooper) but this thing is a joy to drive, handles really well, is loaded with high tech stuff, and feels like a luxury car. My wife’s biggest complaint (other than me being obsessed with it) is that it has a gold Chevy logo on it;)

Yeah, I’m sure the oil industry is doing everything it can, media-wise and otherwise, to stop the proliferation of these beauties.

I installed a small solar PV system just prior to buying the EV, so for the past 9 years, I’ve powered my house and car on sunlight. My electricity bill averages about $100 per year for both the house and car. I haven’t been to a gas station since 2002, nor have I given the oil companies, and by extension the Saudis, one dime of my money.

Electric vehicles will definitely take over for most of our driving, they are exceptionally efficient and have exciting driving characteristics, especially the acceleration, that will astound those who grew up listening to the oil companies’ propaganda about EVs.

Speaking of which, Charis mentioned some of these negative articles on EVs and I’ve been following all of them pretty closely. We see some of the very same terminology from article to article, so it’s clear there is a concerted effort by some entity, oil is the likely culprit, to delay or slow down the adoption of this technology. We need to fight this hard. The options for alternatives to oil are few and far between, and with peak oil coming up fast, we need to get as many plug-in cars on the road as quickly as we can.