Technological solutions in a world driven by political ideologies and corrupt profit motives is just an academic exercise. The entire ‘green’ movement and the unrealistic push to make everything run on batteries made from chinese lithium that plug into rainbow magic juice receptacles is just but one example of the lunacy. A few profit handsomely by being on the inside track of the political game and everyone else is a slave to that vision.
“Technological solutions in a world driven by political ideologies and corrupt profit motives is just an academic exercise.”
The capitalistic streetcar business once much reviled by leftists was pretty much put out of business by market forces (and gasoline tax-funded government road paving efforts).
Fuel cell technology would be a much better alternative than trying to make some kind of battery array that would charge as quickly as putting gasoline or Diesel fuel in a tank, and the supply chain would have swap-out tanks on “trade and go” means of dispensing the power supply.
Works for propane tanks.
Now, if people want a reliable power grid to plug into, the very means of generation of that electricity would have to be rethought. Atomic energy, at one time, was supposed to provide electricity so cheaply it would not even be necessary to meter it, just a flat fee for every residence. But the Luddites and troglodytes resisted, and fought tooth and nail to PREVENT, by any means necessary, to keep uranium fueled light water reactors from gaining universal adoption. They were sort of right, as regards Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants, where some really disastrous and catastrophic events drew some very bad press for ALL nuclear power plants.
But there is a way to use nuclear power in a much safer manner than demonstrated by those events. Use of thorium fueled molten salt plants removes virtually every objection to a uranium-fueled nuclear reactor. Molten salt reactors CANNOT have catastrophic meltdown, or a “runaway reaction”, they do not generate long-lived radioactive isotopes as part of their atomic “ash”, and they can even use “spent” uranium fuel rods (in which some 95% of the energy is still IN the rod), to initiate the fission reaction in the thorium fuel mixture. Widespread adoption of this technology would assure plentiful electrical energy production, with a more available fuel, and the plant, because of its inherent safety factor, could be located within highly populated centers, reducing the need for extended grids.
These plants can be run 24/7/365 at near maximum output, providing baseline power at all times, and with the addition of auxiliary peak power demand generation capability, provide a degree of reliability equal to or better than ever enjoyed in the modern industrial world.
Is it feasible? Yes. Do we have the will to put this technology to use? That is much more iffy. But it is still much more attainable than rainbow sparks or unicorn farts.