You can add a really low ratio of work/energy unit.
Every aspect of the “green” “electrification” agenda is a big fail because every part of it exists as mandates and mandates for which no actual planning has ever been done, as to how any one of the mandates can be achieved without economic harm just trying to achieve them.
The “green” agenda is a Pol Pot style agenda - destroy everything that is in order to build a Utopia.
ALL of our problems are down to one thing: Adults are not in charge. Psychotic ideologues are. Simple. I mean the Pastor brought up that Swedish or whatever kid who thinks he she or it is the wrong sex and child services and the school and the law came to the parents house and took the kid….AND TOOK THE KID.
Well I’m an adult and God fearing…
I’ve got my own “Austrian” view of this.
Printed fiat money, allowing massive financialization, manipulation of interest rates, and government debt - gives vast social-engineering power to government, monetary redistribution ability to political blocs, and financial skimming opportunities to financial cronies.
“Green Energy” is our latest and greatest example of this.
Battery Plants are still being built all over the US. The construction company I am affiliated with has 10 that are being built, with an 11th in Noth Mississippi getting underway. Obviously free gubmint $ starts them off BUT longterm contracts must be in place to sustain them. Looks like no demand for their product at all but they are still getting built at billions each...
Maybe they know something that we don’t...
“owing in part to Chinese competition and in part to “weak demand for electric vehicles.” “
Two things going on here.
(1) EV manufacturing, demand, sales, etc.
(2) Very low ocean shipping costs allow countries with cheap labor to provide products to other countries around the world cheaper than those countries can make them.
I consider (1) the minor problem and (2) the major one.
Oversized electric golf cart fanbois hardest hit.
It’s ALL about CONTROLLING US!! Where we go....HOW we get there....HOW FAR WE CAN GO. ALL TO CONTROL US!!
Intelligent people should have realized that. Electric cars are just a niche product.
"Only" new cars. Existing ICE cars will not be scrapped. If they pull that through (I don't think so) European traffic in another 50 years will look like Havanna today.
There are six reasons for every collectivist pogrom in the last 110 yrs.
Money
Power
Money
Power
Money
Power
Every time I see a list of the faults with EVs, I learn of another hazard with them. Somebody in the industry needs to wise up & quit building them. Government officials need to start ignoring the so-called environmentalists on this subject as well. The EVs are just not worth it, but I do understand that they meet some people’s needs. Maybe they will change their minds when they can’t go anywhere in the winter or the
thing catches fire & burns down their house & garage.