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The Fully Charged Show presented by the guy from Red Dwarf certainly can weigh in:

https://youtu.be/yaC1qgXaRvE?t=5m55s

So it seems like Americans are ambling along with prototypes, meanwhile, in Europe, there is Statoil putting wind farms in very deep water off Scotland, not as some prototype but fully for profit.

Regarding why not use the vast American interior, really it comes down to quality of wind. Exceptional this may be in Wyoming (it is), the winds out at sea are four times more productive if the aforementioned episode of Fully Charged is to be believed.

Quite a few recent episodes of aforementioned show have been about wind, check the Orkney special, parts 1 and 2, as in Orkney there is population of 22000 and too much renewable energy flowing in. So what do you do with it? This show answers that plus all of the usual pertinent points about storage and how there really is no need for a baseline of coal/nucular if we get the car batteries and powerwalls in place.

They are also making hydrogen from wind and sending that off to the mainland, compressed and in usable quantities.

Allegedly the wind off the U.S. Eastern seaboard is good enough to power the whole world.

I am a big fan of the green energy show 'Fully Charged':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaC1qgXaRvE

According to recent episodes things are looking very good for China and the electric car. The clever thing is how the Western car companies are not really needed, the joint ventures that they imposed on foreign marques doesn't apply with electric cars, here the Chinese government wan the whole pie, all made in China.

I think that China will be able to get rid of ICE cars as quick as they first obtained them, in part because the build quality of a lot of them wasn't that good to start with and also because there are people that can remember a time before these filthy machines came along. It is not like the West where only one's great-grandmother can remember the horse and cart, everyone else has only known car pollution.

⬐ caltelt

If only ICE transportation was the whole problem. It's something though. Moving in the right direction, just maybe not at a quick enough pace.

⬐ seanmcdirmid

Car pollution isn’t the major pollutant for Beijing, it’s more industrial, power production, and heating (coal); a lot of drifts in from Hebei and gets trapped in Beijing because it is shaped like a bowl. Cars have fairly good emissions in the jing, while the gas is kept clean also. You can actually see the pollution spike higher at night when the cars are mostly off the road and blue trucks come in from hebei without emissions equipment using crappy gas.

http://www.wri.org/blog/2008/07/beijings-air-pollution-it-is...

Electric cars will help for sure, but it isn’t going to solve the problem on its own. Shifting away from coal (especially for heating, especially in the Hebei country side), and getting factories in Hebei to obey the law is much more important.