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Re: AOC scared by tornado, links it to climate change |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed May 29 06:07:55 2019, in response to Re: AOC scared by tornado, links it to climate change, posted by AlM on Wed May 29 06:01:08 2019. It will be hard to drive 800 miles in one day in a fully electric car.Anyone who needs to drive that much can rent an internal combustion car, or would own/lease one. That's a decline in QoL given that most car owners now have that luxury even if they never use it, but it's a mild decline. By 2050 it will be less expensive to heat your home with heat pumps wherever you now have air conditioners, rather than have a steam or hot water system based on an oil or gas furnace. That will be slightly inconvenient, and may require an investment you wouldn't otherwise need to make. It's 30 years. Many (but admittedly not all) would have to be refurbished/replaced in that time anyway. But other than the capital cost, it doesn't actually lower QoL. So this is an example of something where the only diminishment of QoL is the money being spent, once. There will be transition periods where the renewable energy sources aren't sufficiently supplemented by pumped storage hydro, and there could be spot power shortages. Say if your whole region is windless for a day or two you might only be able to recharge your car during the day and not at night. Nuclear power (and existing hydro sources), not renewable, should be the base power. |
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