Its working!
How about coal? Maybe bankrupting all bucket manufacturers?
These are real results from crazy crazy people in power.
Surprised that more countries are not just doing a global push for more or total EV vehicles and banning ICE vehicles because of the fallout of the fuckhead who went to war, not war, with Iran.
edit I’m not just talking about EV vehicles but more adoption of solar panels, wind mills, geothermal power plant, etc.
the only place where you can get green tech that’s both scalable and affordable like this is china and the entire global north and its periphery is united in preventing this green tech from getting into our hands to various levels.
You need the appropriate grid overhaul I would imagine to be able to sustain a sudden spike in EV adoption.
That electricity has to come from somewhere and that somewhere usually means fossil fuels or coal that’s transported on similar tankers that are also caught in the metaphorical and literal crossfire.
Solar adoption is already at an all-time high and accelerating, but that’s not equally available everywhere.
I’m no expert in any of this stuff, it’s just how I understand it from an armchair perspective. Feel free to chime in.
That’s always how it is though? Can’t have EVs because not enough electricity, won’t build green electricity because not enough EVs.
The EVs are there for anyone to buy at this point, though plug-in hybrids are currently the best option.
You can do short commutes on battery power alone and you have an IC engine ready when needed.
Also if we force all EV manufacturers to adopt a standard for homes to be able to use their cars as back-up power, or generally for the grid to be able to utilize plugged-in EVs with over 80% capacity to feed back into the grid when required, that could solve most of the problems but it soulds like a nightmare to implement from an engineering standpoint.
Edit: this post describes the benefits and challenges.
Even with transmission losses and even if you powered them solely with fossil fuels, aren’t the electric drivetrains and power plants still so much more efficient that you still reduce fossil fuel use by burning it at a power plant instead of ICE motor?
Historian: donald trump made the EU arm up, the green transition go up, removed dependency of oil and gas, …
Ghost of donald: so people remember me for doing good?
Historian: what a shit head he was, if only he knew how we despise him. If we even remember him.
Would be similar to how no one thinks of Nixon as the EPA/clear air & water guy or the war on cancer guy.
Well, yeah. Who knew it would be American imperialism that turns the tide on fossil fuels?
In all seriousness, everyone has known that this is necessary for this system to continue, so it was inevitable that there’d be a shift. They’re squeezing it while they can.
I imagine analysts have identified that building an economy that is dependent on a resource like oil or gas comes with drawbacks and that the oil and gas lobby has access to the worlds militaries which may be used to mitigate those drawbacks.
