I am a scientist, but I am also a historian, so I understand things like the state of physics before Einstein and after Einstein. In the spirit of that example, I believe that is is **possible** (not certain) that some person not named Einstein may unlock a key to the storage or generation of energy at some point in the future.
Because I believe those things does not mean I am one of those chicken-with-the-head-cut-off types who are squawking that we have to outlaw petroleum based fuels and ban internal combustion engines. I am dead set against this. As a matter of fact, I think those people are ideologically driven mental midgets, when they aren’t intellectually deficient mental midgets.
If I had money to burn, I might buy some electric car more as a hobby or protection against a human induced shortage of petroleum. I lived through those times. I hated that, and that was human induced. We are going to see it again and I am not looking forward to it. But I keep in mind that a shortage of petroleum doesn’t just mean a gasoline shortage, so unlike the idiots on the other side, I don’t think I will blithely be able to plug into a wall outlet and get around it all.
I feel like we are arguing when we shouldn’t be. I think we are on the same side here.
Possibly, the root of that may be that you are likely thinking of batteries in a traditional sense, and I am not. I am 100% in agreement with you that nobody has found a revolutionary way to store energy yet using the standard battery model. I just think that we may find in the future that there is a way to do it we simply don’t know yet.
I wasn’t arguing so much as expressing pessimism as to our government of fools’ solution to the nonexistent problem of man caused global warming. I’m fully convinced that their ultimate goal-is to reduce our ability to move freely by forcing vehicles that are much less practical than the current petroleum fueled standard on us.
Odd that you mentioned being a scientist- I started out with a degree in biochemistry with a heavy side of physical chemistry which is why I’m so hung up on the first and second laws of thermodynamics which apparently no one in the EPA has ever heard of with their impossible CAFE standards. These are two fundamental aspects of our current reality that cannot be violated I got into computer modeling 25 years ago and I know enough about statistics and modeling to know all of this model based climate change is bullsh!t. So I see an artificial austerity getting ready to be rammed down our throats to solve a nonexistent problem and I see EVs as a step toward the austerity that’s planned for us by our self anointed “betters”.
A long winded way of saying that yes something more effective at energy storage than the current batteries may come along, and I am thinking of batteries as the electrochemical things that we have now, but I suspect that the goal isn’t saving the planet or saving transportation energy, but keeping the peasants in their place.
Just as an aside i was returning from FL on the interstate recently and I saw 6 Teslas being hauled to their destination on a diesel truck. Bit of irony there.