Tips and Takeaways from My First 800-Mile EV Road Trip in Scotland

[malvolio]

It could be, but you just have to look at demand prediction and then supply/reserves, the figures don't match. That's before we get into the whole morality of what cobalt mining actually is.

Yes energy infrastructure needs full overhaul, this needs to happen regardless and its going to be very expensive. Decarbonisation of electricity has to happen regardless.

Well that's dead easy. What's the carbon footprint of a nuclear power station...? A small one would give enough electricity to split quite a lot of water into H2 and O2...

[vetran]

It could be, but you just have to look at demand prediction and then supply/reserves, the figures don't match. That's before we get into the whole morality of what cobalt mining actually is.

Yes energy infrastructure needs full overhaul, this needs to happen regardless and its going to be very expensive. Decarbonisation of electricity has to happen regardless.

its little kids with buckets & spades currently


You can change the demand by making the loads intelligent - dynamic economy7 & car charging. Forget air source heat pumps a few night storage heaters and HRVs would really help.

Replace natural gas heating in tower blocks with hydrogen & solar. Replace electric trains & smelting with hydrogen.