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Yep. I was sort of trying to get at this with: >> Health issues in cities are irrelevant if global warming means the cities are underwater. I used to live in
by stegosaurus 10y ago
Yep.
I was sort of trying to get at this with:
>> Health issues in cities are irrelevant if global warming means the cities are underwater.
I used to live in Central London and you could smell the diesel fumes in the morning. I'm very familiar with particulate emissions.
Kill ICE's and we solve both.
- magicalist 10y ago> I was sort of trying to get at this with: > >> Health issues in cities are irrelevant if global warming means the cities are underwater. which isn't true. Moreover, you didn't really give an argument for why this shouldn't be tackled at both ends of the problem. The smell is the least of our worries with particulate emissions.
- ArkyBeagle 10y ago200 years ago it was horse manure. Is that what would replace it?
- toomuchtodo 10y agoElectric vehicles.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoSure. $100,000 US Teslas for everybody.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoYou're aware that Tesla has driven the cost of batteries below $200/kwh 5 years ahead of schedule? Batteries than can go in light vehicles, heavy vehicles, any sorts of vehicles. They will only continue to get cheaper.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoOh, I understand, but these things always take a while. And the the power grid will have to adapt. At least coal seems to finally be disappearing.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoO'RLY? In a fit of masochism, I watched this: http://www.spike.com/shows/life-or-debt/episode-guide http://www.spike.com/shows/life-or-debt/episode-guide "Til Debt Do Us Part" - Season 1, Ep 7.
- WalterBright 10y agoMy father said when he was a boy the cry was "clean up our cities" to replace horses with cars.