That said: in the late 1890s and early 1900s, scientists already knew about fossil fuels and greenhouse gasses and they didn’t speak up loud enough.
Are you just going to ignore that battery technology sucked 100+ years ago and that’s why the ICE beat the electric engines? Everyone has to work with the technology of their era. 100+ years later and batteries are still a bottleneck for us today and one of the main areas of focus to make a lot of this stuff work, and there is still a question if we’ll have enough resources to produce the number of batteries we’ll need if we don’t come up with some new/better technology.
It’s easy to blame the past when you ignore the limitations of the time. We will undoubtedly make mistakes that have unintended consequences. Does that mean they are mistakes at the time, or did we just do the best we could with the information and technology we had available? That’s all anyone is trying to do. That’s all anyone has ever tried to do. No one in 1900 decided they’d use fossil fuels, just so they could piss off Troy in 2023.
Fair enough, but if humanity had geared up for renewable electricity generation, there would have been more motivation to fund and perform research on battery tech.
Why would they focus all their energy on solutions that only worked when the weather was nice, and thus electricity was needed the least? That doesn’t make sense. It’s a chicken and egg situation. They’re not going to make renewable energy they can’t store, and there not going to focus on mass storage when the solutions of the day didn’t require it.
Regardless of how we got here, we’re here. So we need to accept it and figure out the best way forward. Pointing fingers at the past is completely pointless. What happened, happened.
Are you just going to ignore that battery technology sucked 100+ years ago and that’s why the ICE beat the electric engines? Everyone has to work with the technology of their era. 100+ years later and batteries are still a bottleneck for us today and one of the main areas of focus to make a lot of this stuff work, and there is still a question if we’ll have enough resources to produce the number of batteries we’ll need if we don’t come up with some new/better technology.
It’s easy to blame the past when you ignore the limitations of the time. We will undoubtedly make mistakes that have unintended consequences. Does that mean they are mistakes at the time, or did we just do the best we could with the information and technology we had available? That’s all anyone is trying to do. That’s all anyone has ever tried to do. No one in 1900 decided they’d use fossil fuels, just so they could piss off Troy in 2023.
Fair enough, but if humanity had geared up for renewable electricity generation, there would have been more motivation to fund and perform research on battery tech.
Why would they focus all their energy on solutions that only worked when the weather was nice, and thus electricity was needed the least? That doesn’t make sense. It’s a chicken and egg situation. They’re not going to make renewable energy they can’t store, and there not going to focus on mass storage when the solutions of the day didn’t require it.
Regardless of how we got here, we’re here. So we need to accept it and figure out the best way forward. Pointing fingers at the past is completely pointless. What happened, happened.