fuels cells don’t and can never be made to work unless they invalidate the laws of nature somehow
electrified public transport and cycling / escooter and walking are the only solutions
ecars provide us paranoid few with a degree of energy resilience while civilisation continue to collapse but are in no way environmentally sustainable or green, the IPCC has fir devades said we need to move away from all cars.
as an aside lots of chinese cars (I have one, i cycle as much as I can but here in Australia we’re car brained fools and it’s hard to live in rural areas sans cars, it was easy when we lived in the city) The chinese ecars often use LFP batteries and don’t need the cobalt used in NMC batteries. Still a shit load of other stuff like 100- 120kg of Cu for the wiring harness and toones of fossil fuels needed for the plastics etc etc
The silicon carbon battery in my Motorola phone is good, they may be useful, solid state has issues over vibration that engineering may overcome.
None of that matters as were to far along to change course let alone reveres, inevitably well cross too many topping points in the next decade or two and the collapse of civilization will be set in stone.
…there are literally fuel cell electric vehicles already in production…?
to tell you the truth, I think public transport is the real long term solution, I put fuel cells in there too because some individuals will need a car, e.g. disabled people, and I think it’s a big improvement to ICE and battery-based EVs both in terms of environmental/social impact and safety
We are already at sodium batteries, so the environment argument is gone, and it was a weak argument, as if ICE and fuel cell cars are not made of mined metals, and hydrogen is not made from hydrocarbons. No way they could make enough hydrogen by electrolysis and if they did have the infrastructure to do that, it would be far more efficient to use EVs.
Plus bicycles. They can replace and connect public transport in a great way for mid-range distances. Myself, I never had a car. I am mid-fifty now and cycle to work 14 kilometers, or 8.7 miles.
And the only thing you need for a bicycle revolution in a city to happen are adequate safe ways - Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, even Bogotá with its Sunday ciclovía are great examples.
Regarding cold, I regard riding the bike in cold weather far more convenient than waiting in a bus. I have a pack of different gloves which I use for each temperature level. The thing is… cycling in cold means moving the body which means the body generates heat. The only thing is that one has to protect hand and feed well (and use a bit less clothing on the core body compared to hiking at the same temperature, because that would be too warm).
fuels cells don’t and can never be made to work unless they invalidate the laws of nature somehow
electrified public transport and cycling / escooter and walking are the only solutions
ecars provide us paranoid few with a degree of energy resilience while civilisation continue to collapse but are in no way environmentally sustainable or green, the IPCC has fir devades said we need to move away from all cars.
as an aside lots of chinese cars (I have one, i cycle as much as I can but here in Australia we’re car brained fools and it’s hard to live in rural areas sans cars, it was easy when we lived in the city) The chinese ecars often use LFP batteries and don’t need the cobalt used in NMC batteries. Still a shit load of other stuff like 100- 120kg of Cu for the wiring harness and toones of fossil fuels needed for the plastics etc etc
The silicon carbon battery in my Motorola phone is good, they may be useful, solid state has issues over vibration that engineering may overcome.
None of that matters as were to far along to change course let alone reveres, inevitably well cross too many topping points in the next decade or two and the collapse of civilization will be set in stone.
Calling hydrogen stupid is actually the only smart thing Elon Musk has said in public.
…there are literally fuel cell electric vehicles already in production…?
to tell you the truth, I think public transport is the real long term solution, I put fuel cells in there too because some individuals will need a car, e.g. disabled people, and I think it’s a big improvement to ICE and battery-based EVs both in terms of environmental/social impact and safety
We are already at sodium batteries, so the environment argument is gone, and it was a weak argument, as if ICE and fuel cell cars are not made of mined metals, and hydrogen is not made from hydrocarbons. No way they could make enough hydrogen by electrolysis and if they did have the infrastructure to do that, it would be far more efficient to use EVs.
Plus bicycles. They can replace and connect public transport in a great way for mid-range distances. Myself, I never had a car. I am mid-fifty now and cycle to work 14 kilometers, or 8.7 miles. And the only thing you need for a bicycle revolution in a city to happen are adequate safe ways - Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, even Bogotá with its Sunday ciclovía are great examples.
Sorry, I’m not riding my bike in freezing weather on snow and ice.
I don’t do it with thick, uneven, crusty ice, but that’s mostly due to bad road maintenance. There is a city in Finland close to the polar circle where the bike is the dominant means of transportation, even in winter.. And it has a mean minimum temperature of -26° C in January and February.
Regarding cold, I regard riding the bike in cold weather far more convenient than waiting in a bus. I have a pack of different gloves which I use for each temperature level. The thing is… cycling in cold means moving the body which means the body generates heat. The only thing is that one has to protect hand and feed well (and use a bit less clothing on the core body compared to hiking at the same temperature, because that would be too warm).
^This 100% Most of these people have never experienced a proper winter.