To be fair, one of the main uses for energy is heating/cooling our home. The house can act as a thermal battery, and many people already do so with heavy thermal insulation. (Heat up during the day and stay warm through the night, or vice-verse)
Another part is transportation. Batteries can not progress infinitely, the best you can get is gasoline level, and then it is basically gasoline. I’m actually surprised that LiPo batteries are used in cars at all, due to how dangerous they are. There should be a transition away from cars to trains+bikes combination. Sadly people are too car-centric to make the shift.
I’m actually more onboard than you suppose, I moved my entire family abroad to a more walkable town with train links over a year ago and ditched the car for a bike. I lost 30 lbs more or less by accident before starting to work out for real. I’ve never been this healthy in my life, and the rare occasion I need a car, a local taxi service can get me to an int’l airport for less than the cost of a tank of gas, or around town for £5 flat. Boom, fuck a car.
It’s largely a problem of energy storage, which is going to be solved one way or another. Never bet against technology.
I’d love to hear that solar panels get easier to recycle… The e waste issue bugs me.
To be fair, one of the main uses for energy is heating/cooling our home. The house can act as a thermal battery, and many people already do so with heavy thermal insulation. (Heat up during the day and stay warm through the night, or vice-verse) Another part is transportation. Batteries can not progress infinitely, the best you can get is gasoline level, and then it is basically gasoline. I’m actually surprised that LiPo batteries are used in cars at all, due to how dangerous they are. There should be a transition away from cars to trains+bikes combination. Sadly people are too car-centric to make the shift.
I’m actually more onboard than you suppose, I moved my entire family abroad to a more walkable town with train links over a year ago and ditched the car for a bike. I lost 30 lbs more or less by accident before starting to work out for real. I’ve never been this healthy in my life, and the rare occasion I need a car, a local taxi service can get me to an int’l airport for less than the cost of a tank of gas, or around town for £5 flat. Boom, fuck a car.