I've had the cobalt argument thrown at me driving my EV with its batteries, but I didn't realise that it was used in catalytic converters, so that's something I now know for future banter.
The problem today still is there's still too much demand for oil. My company I work for is based in designing industrial food production machinery, and a lot of the machines are used in crisp/snack manufacturing production lines. To heat the oil to cook the vast quantities of potatoes going through them is entirely achieved through the burning of diesel or gas in equally large volumetric amounts.
There are companies that enquire about using hydrogen, but it's very difficult unless production is started from scratch to utilities it, and they balk at the increased cost of the machinery, let alone the risks of using a very excitable gas that wants to react with almost anything.
So I also feel that fossil fuel usage will be a gradual change, but definitely not irradicated any time soon, and any 2050 carbon targets governments have agreed to are likely to be broken. I expect future generations to suffer from climate change and the costs of that to impact every aspect in their lives, including food production because of the weather, but hopefully it'll get better for them, though way further down the road than I think moral people that care today would want.
Had a conversation with a lovely pensioner/charity volunteer & after discussing BEVs for about 10 mins she finally said, "I just don't agree with electric cars" Thank you Daily Mail FUD
I've had the cobalt argument thrown at me driving my EV with its batteries, but I didn't realise that it was used in catalytic converters, so that's something I now know for future banter.
The problem today still is there's still too much demand for oil. My company I work for is based in designing industrial food production machinery, and a lot of the machines are used in crisp/snack manufacturing production lines. To heat the oil to cook the vast quantities of potatoes going through them is entirely achieved through the burning of diesel or gas in equally large volumetric amounts.
There are companies that enquire about using hydrogen, but it's very difficult unless production is started from scratch to utilities it, and they balk at the increased cost of the machinery, let alone the risks of using a very excitable gas that wants to react with almost anything.
So I also feel that fossil fuel usage will be a gradual change, but definitely not irradicated any time soon, and any 2050 carbon targets governments have agreed to are likely to be broken. I expect future generations to suffer from climate change and the costs of that to impact every aspect in their lives, including food production because of the weather, but hopefully it'll get better for them, though way further down the road than I think moral people that care today would want.
Had a conversation with a lovely pensioner/charity volunteer & after discussing BEVs for about 10 mins she finally said, "I just don't agree with electric cars" Thank you Daily Mail FUD
If I could go back in time I would move to the UK and try to get a job as an early employee at Fully Charged.