Hey pints
Now you almost sound reasonable. Rather than cutting and posting misleading snippets of information, you are expressing your opinions and I respect that.
I agree with you that one day alternate - or more importantly sustainable - energy will allow many advances. Most importantly, a sustainable existence on this planet of our species.
I disagree that this is a long way from replacing traditional energy sources and base load power requirements. Look around you! It IS HAPPENING daily. Coal power stations are shutting down in Australia and new generating capacity is overwhelmingly wind and solar. Yes, in some parts of the world coal and gas are still brought online, but those regions have dramatically different economic and social challenges to content with than developed nations.
Meanwhile, PV solar electricity generation costs continue to fall dramatically - providing "INSANELY CHEAP ELECTRICITY" by 2023... or NOW (see:
https://reneweconomy.com.au/more-solar-price-falls-will-lead-to-insanely-cheap-electricity-by-2023/).
I too am against "overzealous hype over yet to be perfected replacements of fossil fuel". However, I also know that if early adopters had not carried around those Motorola "bricks", we would not have our ubiquitous, slim, and powerful mobile phones today... if a large number of consumers had not bought those abominations of early day CRT black and white TVs, we would not enjoy low energy consuming colour LED flat screens today and if no one had invested in "bleeding edge" PV solar rooftop systems before the year 2,000, we would not be in a position today, where we can see a path to transitioning away from toxic, finite and climate change inducing fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources.
I have no illusions about the limitations of today's generation of EVs which is far from being perfected and I saw my own EV purchase as a bleeding edge investment to facilitate cheaper and better EVs with longer lasting and more powerful batteries for future EV drivers. We have decades of work ahead of us for our EV supply chain to become truly sustainable, but without some trial and error, we are never going to arrive at a "perfected replacement" for either fossil fuels or ICE cars.
We do not know what the perfect solution for the replacement of fossil fuels is, but we do know for sure that fossil fuels need to be replaced ASAP.
"I m not against progress" - but where I see problems with our current technology and energy supply, I look at the facts... and they suggest that better alternatives exist and their adoption is urgently required to prevent a climate change catastrophe. That is what the science is telling us and I am one of those old fashioned guys who still believes in science over political ideology.
