The Freakout is engineered to get people to support taxes on "carbon". It would be much more effective to ignore the existing industries and work on making them

The Freakout is engineered to get people to support taxes on "carbon". It would be much more effective to ignore the existing industries and work on making them obsolete. Firefly Energy [1] came up with a good-enough Lead Acid battery - "the energy of NiMH, for the cost of lead", fully recyclable with existing infrastructure, etc. Their batteries would have been perfectly useful for low-range electric vehicles like Postal delivery trucks (20-miles/day) and home energy storage (solar panels, shifting power use to off-peak, etc). But they ramped up for production in the midst of the housing collapse (2006-ish?), and ran out of money. The government only gave money to "advanced chemistry" battery technologies. Firefly Energy had to declare bankruptcy, last I read an Indian company bought the IP... and it's gone nowhere. [1] http://fireflyenergy.com/ http://fireflyenergy.com/ > CO2 is something we can control. If it isn't the whole answer, then we're screwed anyway. A friend has told me of the 'Maunder minimum' [2] phenomenon, and that our Sun might be preparing to reduce its output for 30-45 years. If that happens, all efforts to suppress CO2 will be for naught. It is better to focus on the desired outcome than on the present problem. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum