I think almost all folks at Glasgow were more interested in the show-boating of setting goals, and getting Russia, China, India, etc., to sign up, instead of looking at what would be physically required regarding materials, infrastructures to process them, turn them into battery packs, and distribute them to EV assembly plants, and build charging stations, and build additional power plants.
Look at what Tesla had to do to achieve a production rate of one million EVs per year at end 2021.
It took15 years from design to that production, and at the same time also build additional plants, contract for materials, to build at a rate of about two million EVs per year, by the middle 2023, etc.
Almost all EV manufacturers, except Chinese, are, on average, about 5 years behind Tesla. For them, just getting materials, at a reasonable cost, will be a major challenge
People have no idea how the abundance of fossil fuels have made life so easy for billions of us these past 100+ years.
They think, we just abolish FFs, and just “transition” to the other materials, and all will be fine forever. They perceive it to be as easy and joyful, as with the transition to FFs.
A few years down the road of their costly, naive idiocy will give rise to major social/political blowups, as we saw in France. Folks will gravitate to the right side (more sane side) of the spectrum
I think almost all folks at Glasgow were more interested in the show-boating of setting goals, and getting Russia, China, India, etc., to sign up, instead of looking at what would be physically required regarding materials, infrastructures to process them, turn them into battery packs, and distribute them to EV assembly plants, and build charging stations, and build additional power plants.
Look at what Tesla had to do to achieve a production rate of one million EVs per year at end 2021.
It took15 years from design to that production, and at the same time also build additional plants, contract for materials, to build at a rate of about two million EVs per year, by the middle 2023, etc.
Almost all EV manufacturers, except Chinese, are, on average, about 5 years behind Tesla. For them, just getting materials, at a reasonable cost, will be a major challenge
People have no idea how the abundance of fossil fuels have made life so easy for billions of us these past 100+ years.
They think, we just abolish FFs, and just “transition” to the other materials, and all will be fine forever. They perceive it to be as easy and joyful, as with the transition to FFs.
A few years down the road of their costly, naive idiocy will give rise to major social/political blowups, as we saw in France. Folks will gravitate to the right side (more sane side) of the spectrum
Who wins in lawsuits? Lawyers! Here is the next Big Oil lawsuit coming to fruition:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-oil-sold-world-plastics-153434428.html
As if anyone has control over how and what consumers do with products after being sold.
Anyone ever looked at the sun in a box concept for energy storage for renewables being worked on at MIT. You store energy in a hot molten metal, and get it back using solar cells. It looks pretty neat. https://ase.mit.edu/projects/thermal-energy-grid-storage-tegs-prototype/