How is this different from using petrochemicals where the price varies day by day? People have seldom known how much their car is going to cost.
When demand is high you increase the cost to discourage unnecesary usage. What is the problem?
It will not be a practical option for people to not charge their car before they go to work.
Prices matter.
You're making the assumption that practices based on the assumption that you can be profligate with cheap energy will carry over into a situation with expensive energy.
yeah some energy valhalla, where we're all wearing electric suits and roaring through megawatts till sparks are flying out our fingers.
there seems to be no awareness that we don't actually need to be permanently plugged in to some grid the whole time.
this is a blind spot, and is very culture-centric, as we argue here in yurp about how many teras we 'need', and apparently will never be glutted by the use of, while millions of people could already be using a couple of panels in places like nigeria and running a clinic fridge and some lights with.
instead they will probably have some corrupt bureaucrats negotiating a nuke plant for them with some 'western' company!
and all this with the planet temperature rising, and water shortages looming. solar and wind don't gobble water, once they're up and running..
it's effing lunatic, and what's especially distressing is how many intelligent people can't see this for what it is: a last ditch, extremely well-financed effort to keep the public dependent and ignorant, about something that we have the tech to give everyone some of, and that could be useful in so many ways. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
There is also the basic fact that if the choice the public is offered is one between costly energy and frying the planet, most likely the planet will fry. Maybe not. Maybe the current generation is more righteous than mankind has been so far. But is that really something you want to bet the world on?
Re: Water. Two words: Nuclear desalinization.
You should know that India is a wind power pioneer, too, with almost 11 GW installed (nuclear: 4.12 GW). Suzlon even bought majority in a top German manufacturer (REpower). *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
what can you say?
they're teaching grandmothers in india to install solar, maybe they can moonlight at westinghouse!
the bit about how inefficient it would be to harvest energy from the countryside too...
obviously a grid for their nuke nirvana would be worth installing, but empowering them off the grid, not so much.
concern trolling, poor planet, it's dying of coal fumes, what it surely needs now is to be bathed in radioactive rays, while declaiming how solar energy will pave the world with cement.
it beggars belief...like most topdown -is there any other kind?- capitalism. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
No one will adopt the electric car if gas is flat out cheaper than electrons.
Even if we were to magically conjure up enough petroleum reserves for that scenario, it's nothing a 2000 % gasoline tax can't solve.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
