XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 01/14/2014 03:01 PM, Leszek Karlik wrote:   
   > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:33:46 +0100, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >>> Luckily, electric vehicles are significantly less maintenance-intensive   
   >>> than internal combustion vehicles.   
   >>   
   >>     Unluckily, there aren't that many electric vehicles, their energy   
   >> density is terrible (and thus their range sucks), and their refuelling   
   >> time is generally ridiculous.   
   >   
   > And we all know that SF is exactly like today, only with blasters ;-))   
      
   And if we had the kinds of energy storage that the existence of   
   blasters would require, we'd have the densities needed for EVs.   
   Problem solved!   
      
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