I personally think a bunch of people that are looking to make a huge amount of money are misleading a great many people that just don't know better, and hay it sounds good.
If you are of a specific vintage you likely remember this:
You only need to watch the first minute of this to see the fear they are trying to feed into people. So many forget about this.
And just a few years later we have this:
And what does this bring us to, the single worst way to move people around....a battery. The single worst way to store energy.
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We will not get into the mining of thigs like lithium or cobalt. Lithium uses HUGE amounts of fresh water, no real shortage of that is there....lake Mead anyone....look into the real reasons the level is dropping, and it ain't climate change, lithium mines for more batteries. And Cobalt, most of that comes from Africa, and there are some labor practices there that make the Chinese look like Swiss. But hay the chinese don't mind having kids playing mule to get $3 for a days labor from a ton of ore.....do the same people that love to scream rape of the planet and drive battery cars....those are not generally one in the same are they?.....oh wait.
Ever look what happens to wind turbine blades after they "wear out".....hint they don't get recycled, landfill baby. And any guess why that steady wind over the ocean is not making more energy then england could ever use....they just bought a bunch of power from Belgium at %5000 over market....why did they need power that badly.....seems salt air is a little rough on wind turbines, who would have thunk it?
Does any of this mean the other stuff is not bad, no. But the "renewables" are not ready yet, I will not go into the bird fryer outside of vegas that cost MILLIONS and is now shut down.....thing was to power all of vegas, ahh nope....don't look over there.
Keep working to different "fuels" to move our stuff around and make electrical pixies, but till you get something that really works don't give up what we already have. Texas learned that lesson the hard way....coal always works....who knew that natural gas can freeze solid?
IMHO hydrogen is where the focus should be......there are issues there as well sure, but it is clean, everywhere, and would work right now.....but are they....nope all eggs in the battery basket. It did not work 100 years ago for the very same reasons it will not work today.