Post by End80 on Oct 29, 2022 18:31:24 GMT
Although electric cars appear to be gradually becoming more a norm, there's still lot of controversy surrounding their practical use. The idea behind them is to reduce carbon emissions which benefis the environment and reduces global warming, but, it takes a lot of fossil fuel to produce the energy needed to keep them charged, so instead of pollution coming from the tailpipes there's an increase of pollution at from the powerplants which produce the energy to recharge them.
And then there's the time involved to recharge them. It takes three minutes to fill your tank with gas, or at least 12 hours to fill your battery
What's more, the batteries themselves consist of rare earth materials that are complicated and expensive to extract. Then when those batteries finally burn out it cost more than the sticker price of the car to replace them, and then there's the issue of disposing of the toxic waste from of millions of depleated batteries if and when electric cars become the norm...
But all that is a non-issue when it comes part 15 AM broadcasting, for us the problem with electric cars is that the manufacturers are eliminating the AM radios because it cost to much to sheild the electrical emissions that interfere with AM reception, so they just don't put an AM radio in the car at all..
If and when electric cars become the norm that will put a big damper on part 15 AM (as well as licensed stations and the TIS emergency public safety stations).
Now days it seems like the only AM radio the average Joe even owns anymore is the one in their car.. if those all disappear who the hell will be left to broadcast to?
Now this is just a thought.. What if we had a kind of hybrid AM transmitter? One that simultaneously broadcast both AM and FM, and or some kind of digital broadcast the new cars could receive?
It's just armchair speculation that may sound ridiculous and perhaps problematic, but isn't the idea similar to what the FCC has done to "save the AM band" by providing FM repeaters for AM stations?
I suppose the argument all sounds silly to most, why not just dispose of AM broadcast entirely?
Because AM broadcast is the only wide area method of reaching the public in times of emergency that doesn't depend on some kind of chained grid.
I guess our easiest option with part 15 is to broadcast both AM and FM (as many do), but of course we'll never get the range that our AM is capable.
And then there's the time involved to recharge them. It takes three minutes to fill your tank with gas, or at least 12 hours to fill your battery
What's more, the batteries themselves consist of rare earth materials that are complicated and expensive to extract. Then when those batteries finally burn out it cost more than the sticker price of the car to replace them, and then there's the issue of disposing of the toxic waste from of millions of depleated batteries if and when electric cars become the norm...
But all that is a non-issue when it comes part 15 AM broadcasting, for us the problem with electric cars is that the manufacturers are eliminating the AM radios because it cost to much to sheild the electrical emissions that interfere with AM reception, so they just don't put an AM radio in the car at all..
If and when electric cars become the norm that will put a big damper on part 15 AM (as well as licensed stations and the TIS emergency public safety stations).
Now days it seems like the only AM radio the average Joe even owns anymore is the one in their car.. if those all disappear who the hell will be left to broadcast to?
Now this is just a thought.. What if we had a kind of hybrid AM transmitter? One that simultaneously broadcast both AM and FM, and or some kind of digital broadcast the new cars could receive?
It's just armchair speculation that may sound ridiculous and perhaps problematic, but isn't the idea similar to what the FCC has done to "save the AM band" by providing FM repeaters for AM stations?
I suppose the argument all sounds silly to most, why not just dispose of AM broadcast entirely?
Because AM broadcast is the only wide area method of reaching the public in times of emergency that doesn't depend on some kind of chained grid.
I guess our easiest option with part 15 is to broadcast both AM and FM (as many do), but of course we'll never get the range that our AM is capable.
