Due to global heating and drought hydroelectric power generation is not as "renewable" as it once was.
We install more solar cells. The good thing about solar cells is that they don't produce any nocturnal emissions. Best thing ever!
Like the solar panels littered on all the commercial buildings in Los Angeles that are off and not in use after SoCal Edison went belly up on that project?
So long as it's in your backyard, that's fine by me. If it's by destroying thousands upon thousands of acres of virgin desert land and killing thousands of desert tortoises in the process, I'd hardly call that a "best thing".
Ummm, I realize that reading isn't a strong point of yours but for the record, I NEVER said they were.
LOL - because Phoenix is only hot in June, July and August. But hey, you're the expert here.
LOL - says the guy who said if "you’ve never done construction in Maricopa - Dust will shut a job site down".
You mean like every state in the union has been moving toward for over a decade now. Yeah, it'll be any day now LOL
Awe, guess I struck a nerve with that one. Sorry about that LOL
Uh, DUH! That was my point boy genius.
Not sure how you have less gas plants when all cars need to be running on electricity but hey, you're the guy who knows all about things like what the EPA has in store for us in spite of NOT reading a damn thing.
LOL - Yup, I sure do and never wouldn't have a clue what it would be like to live in an area with almost 10 million people and for longer than you've been alive.
Only IF electric production was made by more than 14% from renewable sources. Sucks that isn't the case now nor will it be in the next 5 years.
Why all this is so hard for you to grasp is clear as day to me. Just like all the products of propaganda, you have to be right and I have to be wrong. And that's cool. You win, batteries are just a harmless waste product of energy, there are no gas power plants in Phoenix or there are but only turn on during June, July and August, construction dust can shut a job site down but isn't a contributor to the brown cloud and driving Jeeps that have a 20 mile battery range will end air pollution as we know. Got it.
LOL - to be clear, you're the only one here who's been arguing.
As in, DUST DOES OCCUR and that's why it's such a problem and enough so that it NEEDS TO BE REGULATED.
Funny, I read it too and to the best of my knowledge, NOTHING has been issued... YET.
And clearly, because you say as much, it MUST be true - LOL
ONLY for a number of times. After that, they are WASTE - TOXIC WASTE.
LOL - you really have a hard on for the tail pipe.
Again, you are the only one here that I know of who is trying to argue.
Well that wouldn’t have happened if man didn’t invent the automobile and change the climate.
That and cow farts!
Yeah but, all we we need to do eat more of them.
how exactly are they planning on getting to that magical 70%? If they truly are not going to stop production of traditional motors and options, they can make it so that only 30% of those produced are tradional thus showing a "reduced sales" in the traditional market causing the "surge" towards electric and using that as the impetius to stop production of traditional internal combustion
The glaciers had already started melting in Glacier National Park in the early 1900s when most people were still using horses and trains for transportation. This suggests that our current climate started changing before the automobile became a thing. The industrial revolution and heating homes using coal (combined with continual population increase) would have started man-made global heating if we are to accept that concerned scientists and climate advocates are correct that observed changes are principally due to man.
The industrial revolution started in the mid 1700's and was mostly powered by steam from coal initially and natural gas in later years. It also wasn't terribly efficient at using those resources. So the fact the glaciers were melting in the early 1900's does not preclude it from being some or mostly driven by humans. Cars obviously did not contribute to melting at that time but now they are a thing. I'm not a proponent of 'electrify everything!' But if we as a society don't get this under control I'm a little worried about the world we will leave our kids.
IMHO. There needs to be strong international agreements for any of this to work. And there will be countries that won't comply and there should be adequate enforcement measure to get compliance.... Maybe take away a countries access to internet (which could be done) if they refuse to comply with whatever standard is mandated. China has also somewhat acknowledged the threat of climate change, over the past decade they have built 4 of the top 10 largest hydroelectric dams in the world. They're arguably ecological disasters on their own right but should slowly get them away from coal. They've also banned crypto mining which is a huge energy drain (they had coal plants dedicated to powering mining servers not homes).As I'm sure nobody saw yesterday, it was just reported by NON FOX NEWS outlets such as MSN and the like that 25 cities accounted for over half of all greenhouse gas emissions. That's 52% of all the shit that's "killing the planet". Guess how many of those cities are in the USA? NONE!!! Guess how many are in China? 22!!! Tokyo, Moscow and Istanbul accounted for the rest. Of course, China is still a "developing" nation so they get a pass.
