Thread: Electric cars are the Betamax of our times they will be superseded by hydrogen to the regret of early adopters. How can people who live in flats, terraced houses etc charge them? How can we produce enough electricity when we already verge on brown outs.
What about the carbon footprint of creating all these batteries that will pollute the planet for decades. Heat pumps are an even worse white elephant. Unless you are keen on luke warm water and tepid radiators.
#COP26 will achieve nothing unless it has a rational path to #NetZero which can only be achieved without destroying the economy by three fuels.
1) Electricity from base load nuclear + renewables
2) Hydrogen for cars/lorries
3) Ammonia for aviation
2 & 3 can be produced using 1
1) Electricity from base load nuclear + renewables
2) Hydrogen for cars/lorries
3) Ammonia for aviation
2 & 3 can be produced using 1
The country that is first to realise this and act upon it will lead the new industrial revolution. The rest will waste trillions on sticking plasters that don't work.
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