Message from @Hopix
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Hopefully Boris won't fail on immigration too.
He'll fail on everything
I didn't join the boris dick-sucking club at the election like so many here
Said i'd give him the benefit of the doubt
It took him 8 weeks to flunk out
He's got an uphill battle to win back my trust
I don't see it happening
He needs to get rid of Micheal Gove.
MIchael Gove is ok, just not where he is
He's an absolute fucking boomer
Put him in some fossil job where he can't harm anything
Give him Rees-Mogg's job
So I was reading a BBC article, whereby it basically said the price of electric cars will be similar to petrol by 2025, however, we will need literally like 25 million more charging points than we have now
Which is mental
Bullshit
Written by someone who was scientifically illiterate
Battery tech used is 30 years old, there isn't going to be an order-of-magnitude drop in the cost of the batteries
And the tiny amount of development headroom they have for improving them, will be in charging, will involve IP and novel materials and therefore will serve to keep the price up, not down
I've said for ages that the people the BBC and other journals get for science reports have absolutely fucking no knowledge of science
(Completely ignoring that ramping up the extraction needed for the metals for these cars is going to fuck over the environment)
Briefly, they would seem a sensible alternative to electric, and hydrogen could be generated by excess electricity generation, but the same infrastructure/distribution and baseline car costs remain
Also, it's fucking dangerous
I see
Driving a hydrogen car means you're essentially driving around strapped to a bomb
Why not just improve on filtration systems and develop on stuff like biodiesel? Would seem like a more practical alternative instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with electric cars and the massive infrastructure investment they would require...
Biodiesel is terrible
Biodiesel is both bad for the environment, and bad for diesel engines
What about carbon capture exhausts?
euro dying against £ ... some figures just out... bad for euro
and some uk figures just out that were really good
from the uk services sector... anything above 50 good, below bad... expected 52.9 .. actually came out 53.9 .. really good figures for our sector
Anything on other sectors?
and retail figures from EU... last figure 2.3% ... expected to be higher 2.4% .. but actually came out less higher 1.3%
Issue with carbon capture is it's still fossil fuels
I don't have a problem with moving to electric cars, just not in this half-arsed way
Well yes, but it can filter out the bad emissions, it's a stepping stone
from what i understand, you wouldn't be able to carbon capture on something that portable
and besides, hybrids were supposed to be the stepping stone, and they're banning those too
electric cars are perfectly functionable, provided the infrastructure - it's the cost that's the problem
Melt the ice caps