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wanderingaimles
Apr 28, 2021Explorer
Oil will be drilled no matter what, at least until they develop cheap enough other sources of both power and products manufactured from it. The same can be said for the Rare earth mining, but just as oil went through rapid growth in it's consumption, which resulted in the issues you pontificate upon, so too will the rare earth mining for materials for batteries and chip making. Rapid growth caused the oil issues, and replacing that problem with another that has even longer term impact as all these batteries end up in landfills helps nothing.
Nuclear, Hydrogen and to a lesser extent solar and wind will have places, but until they find a friendlier battery source, electric vehicles are not a help.
Fuel injection replacing carburetors was the biggest help in the last 40 years, the amount of fuel wasted has dropped due to that, and some form of conversion to Natural Gas is likely the next big help step, but I cant see switching to an even more hazardous replacement being the solution.
Nuclear, Hydrogen and to a lesser extent solar and wind will have places, but until they find a friendlier battery source, electric vehicles are not a help.
Fuel injection replacing carburetors was the biggest help in the last 40 years, the amount of fuel wasted has dropped due to that, and some form of conversion to Natural Gas is likely the next big help step, but I cant see switching to an even more hazardous replacement being the solution.
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