Record is 375 miles.

[www.megawattmotorworks.com]

[en.wikipedia.org]

[www.acterra.org]

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And 16 hours to get a charge is the problem you come up with? That's from a standard outlet. 110 volts. Of course it's gonna take that long! Don't worry, I found it for you: when you plug into a 240 volt outlet, it only takes 3 and a half hours. That's a lot less than 16 hours. I love top gear, don't get me wrong, but they don't give you all the facts, they're an entertainment show.

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Watch one of the informative documentarys on Chernobyl. Look into what occured at 3 mile island. In general do a little google on nuclear reactor failures. Think about bridges and other critical infrastructure that are not maintained because of funds.

...Then, if you still feel it is such a light topic, dismiss concerns over nukes so lightly!

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You probably think that you're educated on the topic of climate change. But you're not. We're already at 387 parts per million co2 in the atmosphere. 350 was the ideal safe limit. 450 is the manageable limit which we HAVE to cap out at within the next 15-20 years to avoid mass extinctions, migrations and massive warfare.

At the rate we're going, we'll be lucky if we stop at 550 parts per million. But by then it won't matter, because the ice sheets will be gone, raising the temperature even more, the permafrosts will have melted, releasing gigatons more methane and co2 into the atmosphere and in short, we're going to be tremendously fucked.

We no longer have the luxury of being idiots and viewing nuclear energy as something dangerous, even while we strap ourselves every day into explosion powered steel rocket cars and fly down highways at deadly speeds by the hundred million.

so short term memory problems?... well, I'll take that plus knowing what's happening in the world.

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