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  • It reminds me of those who think "food comes from the grocery store!" And not realize that there is an entire infrastructure behind that. Electricity is the same. It will take trillions of dollars to move all cars to electricity. Realistically, it won't happen. There are too many pitfalls and challenges in the way. The most likely outcome is that we stop pushing BEVs so hard and move in another direction.

  • Which is basically the same problem with green transportation: A car is usually lightly used, but every once in a while you drive hundreds of miles. That requires a high capacity energy storage mechanism where "efficiency" is not that big of a concern. But that creates the need for hydrogen cars. At best, you can conceive of a plug-in hybrid car where short trips are battery powered. But then you have redundant infrastructure, and it is simpler to just to move everyone to hydrogen.

  • We're going to use hydrogen for all things transportation. It's pretty much the obvious next step since we still need chemical fuels. There is just too much BEV propaganda and peopled totally deluded about how transportation works.

  • Hydrogen is guaranteed to win this one. Batteries are just another unsustainable greenwashing idea. People are falling prey to BEV propaganda.

  • It comes from brainwashed BEV owners and companies. In reality, it is a huge greenwashing industry designed to distract from the fact that fossil fuel consumption continues. It is only a matter of time before the BEV fad ends and we begin taking real ideas more seriously. Hydrogen will be one of them. So will nuclear in all likelihood.

  • Which is why BEVs won't be 100% of the market as some are imagining. It's simply impossible for a mostly inflexible idea to replace everyone's transportation needs. It requires a vast amount of cooperation and extra resources being spent. It's highly unlike to happen past a certain point.

  • The average car is basically a pickup truck. BEVs are not even close to being cost competitive. Especially against used cars.

  • You're missing the part about time. There is nothing that can be done in time to stop the problem. We've already tried everything that could actually work in a short amount of time. Geoengineering is the only thing left.

    The rest of your argument is a strawman argument. There's nothing to defend there.

  • Then you are simply not aware of the situation. We have “tried everything else.” It has basically failed already. There is no chance we can stop emissions in the timeframe desired. Geoengineering is already the only possibility.

  • That's USB4 v2.0, not USB4. It's not the same thing.

  • And what are the consequences of failing to deal with climate change? At some point, the option becomes unavoidable.

  • The only solution that can happen in the timeframe desired is geoengineering. Everything else is going to take multiple decades at least.

  • There are Republicans in government too. They will always sell out to corporations over public interest.

  • The numbers are bullshit. All money spent on NASA goes back to the economy. And it's all public domain technology. Fascists would love to replace that will privately controlled technology.

  • It just needs to be a Steam Deck w/nVidia hardware instead.

  • People need to start accepting the necessity of geoengineering. Net zero by 2050 is a pure fantasy.

  • This the real truth. Anyone can make a BEV. It implies nothing when someone does. European car makers can do so if they wanted to. The problem is that people don't want BEVs. They're just too expensive and limiting.