Are Millennials Cemented as Civics/Heroes Yet?

[JasonBlack]

(03-11-2022, 11:25 AM)David Horn Wrote: True, though not as true as you might expect. Why do we lack alternatives? First, the energy consortium has done everything it can to keep us where we are, and they managed to convince Joe Sixpack that his pickup truck would be replaced by a microcar is they didn't get their way. The same applies to home HVAC, with threats of hyper-expensive electricity.

imo, research into alternative energy has produced a range of possible options, but the emphasis here is on the "cost-effective" bit, which we have not reached apart from limited applications of solar and various procedures to produce ethanol....which requires more energy to produce than it gives off when used. The low end for electric cars is something like $30,000 a year: over a year's salary for about 1/3 of the country.

Quote:Another problem is NIMBYism, and I don't have a good solution to that short of outright build-by-decree.

exactly

Quote:The other problem is letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, which is a lefty problem. Here, you're right. Sorry, but we need a lot of optins other than solar and wind, or this doesn't get resolved.

I'll leave the other topics to other posts.

on that we can agree. personally I'm bullish on nuclear.