ronk wrote: ↑October 26th, 2021, 9:53 pm
FLIP wrote: ↑October 26th, 2021, 7:19 pm
We already have that magical technological breakthrough. It's called nuclear power.
Nuclear is pretty strictly base load.
Yes it is, but you need a low carbon base load provider to allow renewable non base load methods to be able to go offline when prevailing conditions don't allow them to generate electricity. Germany went from using Nuclear for base load back to coal because of FUD. Nuclear, Renewables and Battery storage has the ability to meet the world's needs and be low emissions at the same time, while ensuring that industry and people don't have to completely alter how they go about things.
paddyor wrote: ↑October 26th, 2021, 10:04 pm
We can’t do metro link or dart underground, we’re struggling to build houses. We’re not about to become nuclear powered.
It's not just an Irish centric approach. If the UN was worth anything they would be leading a worldwide approach on this.
Oldschool wrote: ↑October 26th, 2021, 10:26 pm
You have to laugh.
On The Tonight Show.
"Some people are just using their hybrid cars with the recharging turned off"
Mind you they're probably more carbon friendly that way.
In the UK a few years ago hybrid cars had no extra tax for company cars if they were hybrid, which I believe was also done elsewhere. So executive car makers started making plug in hyrbids with a small battery, and a decently large engine. Which company car drivers loved as you could get a car that had great performance and comfort without paying extra tax on the benefit of having it.
I had one of these, a Mercedes C class. 16 mile battery range on fully electric, and a 2l engine. When electric and engine worked in tandem it went like the clappers. Great fun, but 16 miles also worked for me as most of my work journeys were relatively local, or to the train station. But I'm under no illusion that the car model wasn't solely made as a tax dodge for executives, and in the UK at least the tax benefit is now only on fully electric cars. Which meant a bit of a downgrade to a Kia eNiro for me, but it's still a fine car and was a godsend when the media stirred up the petrol crisis here.