L Do you post ANYTHING that doesn’t cheer lead for BEV’s?
“polymath” my ass”
Do you even know what a polymath is?
It’s a person skilled and functional in mathematics, engineering, sciences, art,music and literature. The other term is Renaissance Man. I am a engineer(mech) by one degree, scientist(geologist,geochemistry,hydro) by 3 other’s, play trumpet(jazz,blues,symphonic),drums,acoustic and electric bass. I sculpt,paint,and do origami as well. So yes a true polymath with a membership to Mensa.
I can do math very well the kind that most people failed as a weed out class junior year after the two calculus classes. Not being innumerate the clinical term for it. I can see what the rest of deep thinkers see. There is not enough resources on this planet for 8 billion people to consume energy in any other form than nuclear,solar ,biomass ,wind and geothermal. This is a cold hard mathematical fact. No amount of I don’t want to change my lifestyle because I’m old and retired or old and near death will change those numbers.
Let me be clear as a energy industry 20 year expert in multiple disciplines hence the polymath there is 47 years at 2022 consumption levels of liquid hydrocarbons left those are resources at any price for recoverable not economic reserves know the difference. When not if the middle classes of India and China together numbering in the billion people range demand energy consumption at even EU levels of use that doubles the world wide consumption rate 47 is now half that.
Humans have the technology to move past single use of a very precious resource. Oil is best and should be reserved nearly exclusively for plastics,chemicals,lubricants,medications,fertilizers et al. Burning it once to the sky so boomers don’t have to change their lifestyles is not going to fly globally and those counties have nukes and hundreds of millions of fighting age men. If they decide to start resource wars they win by demographics alone. Even using nukes killing 500 million Chinese would not end their existence losing 200 million Americans in a nuclear exchange would end the USA for good.
This is the reason the power that be are moving to transition the energy system it’s a resource management issue. The climate commies have latched on as they see a power grab to exploit that doesn’t change the fact that this planet cannot support 8+ billion people who all want and need middle class levels of resource access.
The largest chunk of wasteful energy use is light duty vehicles most of which don’t drive more than 30 miles per day. This is low hanging fruit shift those to electrons from sources that will never run out.
“Drivers are highly unequal in their gasoline consumption. The drivers in the top 10% of gasoline consumption each use upwards of 1,000 gallons of gasoline each year.
Collectively Gasoline Superusers burn nearly one-third of all U.S. gasoline consumed in the U.S. by light duty vehicles. This is more than the bottom 60% of users combined. The top 20% of gasoline users burn 48”
^^^^More numbers not emotions.
Solid state cells can address the superuser issue without having to go to the stick vs the carrot. Switch to long range electron powered vehicles and eliminate the gas tax and charge by tbe mile for everyone based on tire contact psi the higher the psi road load the higher the charge logarithmic in charge as the wear rate on a road surface is quantifiable with measurements as a log log function of tire pound per square inch of road surface area.
I’m a huge fan of use pays since I’m in the top income tax brackets I personally am subsidizing people’s road use. Even a super user with 1000 gallons per year is only putting in $184 per year into the federal hwy fund. While driving 28,000+ miles per year. It costs a million or more per mile of roadway do you honestly think that $184 covers even a tiny fraction of the capex let alone the maintenance cost of 28,000 miles worth of use. No it does not, not even close. So pay as you go is the solution pay by the mile for every mile. Drive more pay more that’s as fair as it gets.