"Having an electric car in every garage charging will require massive upgrades to the power grid to support that kind of load,"

Oh stop! Gasoline cars are perfectly safe and the more the drill baby drill, the more Jesus loves us.

What?! Hydrogen would require a massive infrastructure cost. Are you kidding me? You'd have to build an entire production, storage, transportation, and distribution system for compressed hydrogen. You'd need specialized trucks, new filling stations and completely renovated existing ones. Etc. All existing…

I usually don't comment on many of the technical issues discussed here in Jalopnik because I'm not very well versed on auto mechanics. However, since I was actually an engineer who worked with hydrogen for the Space Shuttle program (retired now) I cringe a bit at the idea of your local service station getting plumbed…

If you're not near a supercharger, or are driving an electric car not compatible with a Supercharger, you're realistically looking at an overnight charge. It's slow, and that's a real issue, based on how most of us live and drive.

Both systems are bulky and heavy. Batteries are bulky and heavy, reinforced kevlar-weave hydrogen tanks are bulky and heavy. Let's call that one a draw. Sure, hydrogen is flammable and potentially explosive, but it's not like no Tesla has ever caught on fire (or that there's no safety risks with Li-ion batteries) and…

Right, and he also made the decision to invest in one vs. the other. I.E. perhaps one of the smartest, most entrepreneurial men in the world is on to something because he chose to invest in batteries. He didn't magically adopt this stance post-Tesla.

If you're not near a supercharger, or are driving an electric car not compatible with a Supercharger, you're realistically looking at an overnight charge. It's slow, and that's a real issue, based on how most of us live and drive.

One problem with regular cab Rangers was tall people don't fit in them well. I'm 6'4, and have no problem fitting into a regular cab Isuzu, Nissan, Toyota or pre-Rangerized Mazdas. But regular cab S-10s and Ranger just don't have enough leg room.

Woman: [gets hit]
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Created an account just to write this.

If you ever start a sentence with "I know I'm going to come across as a dick," you should probably log off instead of completing the sentence.

I used to be that kid in the picture. My dad built a plane in our basement when I was a kid, so 7 years of my life were spent watching him and helping where I could. It was awesome, right up until he finished and started flying his single seat plane while I was stuck watching from the ground.

Every day it eats at you, that little part of your brain that tells you that you are not happy unless you are flying.

I'm in the same boat (plane) as you... I got my PPL a while ago, but I have neither the time nor the people to go flying with, but I miss being in the air like whoa. Got in touch with a powered paraglider school an hour away, and hoping to get going with lessons, and a purchase, soon. Safe flying!

Yes you dont need a licence but with out learning what you are doing you are rolling the dice.

Please take lessons from a certified instructor. Free flight is an amazing and wonderful thing but nothing takes the place of learning from an instructor. As a paraglider, I want to see everyone learn to fly and continue to do it for a long time.

For sure, you probably wouldn't kill yourself but destroying your equipment is quite expensive.

Get a sports pilot's license, and buy one of these:

In the US no license is required unless you want to take a passenger. If you have nowhere to go and just want to fly, para-motoring is ridiculously enjoyable and easy to do if you can restrict your flights to smooth air.