[Fozzie_DeBear]

Originally Posted by Dan02

He lost me at the we don't have electric motors with enough torque for tractors line. Pretty Mich every train locomotive uses electric motors. Some of the largest ships in the world use electric motors. I'm pretty sure we have electric motors with more then enough torque for a tractor.

I think it was part of a rhetorical statement...

But surely, you might say, there will still be demand for fossil fuels for many decades. Electric motors with sufficient torque to power tractors, transport trucks and other heavy equipment, to say nothing of jet engines, have not yet been invented. Many countries have new fossil-fuel generating stations with decades of life in them. The full transition to alternative energy could take the rest of this century, couldn't it?