But that isn’t easy to achieve, is it? Switching to EVs isn’t a solution until we find mass production viable batteries and meaningful clean energy. Wind and solar are nice, but not really 100% working without batteries.
Existing (and actually suboptimal batteries because their specs are optimised for a different use-case; see below…) batteries and solar/wind are already so cheap that a reliable production setup of renewable producer plus battery is cheaper than the alternative power plant. Real concepts not just picking whatever battery can be bought cheaply but build on purpose as large-scale energy storage (e.g. weight/size thus energy density does not matter that much for a stationary installation; charging times don’t need to be much faster than discharging; thermal stability and high life times however are much more important - in short the stuff optimised for decades for handhelds and cars is far from ideal) are even better.
Our problem is not a technical one and not a financial one. The technical aspects got solved a decade ago and mass production with constantly decreasing costs solved the economic issue.
The actual problems are propaganda, propaganda and propaganda. Because fossil fuel producers hoarded money for decades and are now in a position where spending money to flood everything with desinformation and basically buy politicians to keep their profits flowing for another decade (or two) is much better for their bottom line than letting their already uneconomical business model die like it should.
Maybe we could build put the EVs on rail and add an electrical line on top. Then we could increase their size to carry more people at once and then link the carriages together. Something like a train.
Of course it would require a lot of fatzos to walk for 10 minutes everyday
See, that’s the thing. It IS (relatively) easy to achieve, just those who benefit aren’t in charge.
There are enough solar panels, wind turbine manufacturers AND battery manufacturers to probably immediately kill a significant portion of fossil energy needs for power generation. But grid build-out and modernisation is still needed behind that.
We should just bite it and pay more for fuel from some other fuckers. Fuck russia.
It’s already being done in combination, and we suspect some of it is re-flagged Russian fuel anyways.
We should de-carbonize the economy instead.
But that isn’t easy to achieve, is it? Switching to EVs isn’t a solution until we find mass production viable batteries and meaningful clean energy. Wind and solar are nice, but not really 100% working without batteries.
Existing (and actually suboptimal batteries because their specs are optimised for a different use-case; see below…) batteries and solar/wind are already so cheap that a reliable production setup of renewable producer plus battery is cheaper than the alternative power plant. Real concepts not just picking whatever battery can be bought cheaply but build on purpose as large-scale energy storage (e.g. weight/size thus energy density does not matter that much for a stationary installation; charging times don’t need to be much faster than discharging; thermal stability and high life times however are much more important - in short the stuff optimised for decades for handhelds and cars is far from ideal) are even better.
Our problem is not a technical one and not a financial one. The technical aspects got solved a decade ago and mass production with constantly decreasing costs solved the economic issue.
The actual problems are propaganda, propaganda and propaganda. Because fossil fuel producers hoarded money for decades and are now in a position where spending money to flood everything with desinformation and basically buy politicians to keep their profits flowing for another decade (or two) is much better for their bottom line than letting their already uneconomical business model die like it should.
Maybe we could build put the EVs on rail and add an electrical line on top. Then we could increase their size to carry more people at once and then link the carriages together. Something like a train.
Of course it would require a lot of fatzos to walk for 10 minutes everyday
See, that’s the thing. It IS (relatively) easy to achieve, just those who benefit aren’t in charge.
There are enough solar panels, wind turbine manufacturers AND battery manufacturers to probably immediately kill a significant portion of fossil energy needs for power generation. But grid build-out and modernisation is still needed behind that.