EV’s are a dead end. Lithium deposits will run out long before fossil fuels.
EV’s are not sustainable.
“”Lithium deposits will run out long before fossil fuels.””
We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. We have, today, thousands of years of hydrocarbons (I stopped using ‘fossil’ fuels ages ago). On Saturn’s moon Titan there are oceans of hydrocarbons. It rains hydrocarbons. I sincerely doubt that ancient dinosaurs and savannas created these hydrocarbons on Titan.
I would so enjoy to move forward in time, to when the Great Cold that caused New York and Chicago to be under a mile of ice returns (the cyclical ice ages). It would be so much fun to watch the future Comedy Channel viewers as they laugh and laugh at AlGore and his minions “The Earth has a fever”
Necessity is the mother of invention.
We don’t have the power infrastructure to power them all, windmills and solar won’t do it either. They do make fine paper weights on the other hand, especially on those long trips.
Petro is NOT fossil fuel.
However, Biden & Feinstein and other demoncrap politickians are Effedup Fossil Fools.
The US will collapse, and its negative influence on this issue will cease. Nations around the world will continue using gasoline engines, but without the load our economy once put on that resource.
1. A revolution in battery tech is required. 10-100 times greater energy density at lower cost, lighter weight and safer
2. Lower electricity cost plus exponentially greater amount of megawatts into the grid. Wind farms and solar are a joke with respect to gross electricity demand.
We are largely built out for hydroelectric electricity except for tidal flow generation on the east and west coasts. Fission nuke plants are hamstrung and and probably face a 20 year process to bring online. Thanks environuts and sympatico regulators.
The nuke solution is likely to come from small scale package fission nuke plants and longer term fusion nuke plants. The tech is here now for small scale package nuke plants - Just need someone to pull the trigger and build the first ones.
We can hope for Mr. Fusion powered cars, right?
3. Prime mover powered machinery is DOA for electrification. The quantity of energy required is way too great. Think trains, farm equipment and ships.
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That is TRUE!
If we used hydrogen internal combustion engine which burns hydrogen and produces water, the pagan cult of environMENTALism would complain that the water vapor produced was contributing to climate change.
We have to wait for people like Algore to die and to form a line to piss on his grave.