Hopefully Perovskite will be powering our cars in the near future - https://newatlas.com/lithium-ion-car-battery-charge-perovskite-solar-cell/39157/
I remember in the late 1990s buying a place on Vicky dock & I remember the “experts” telling me that it would be under water within 20 years…..how’s it doing now? How wet is it there, haven’t been there in a while. All submerged I expect……
God I nicked some stuff from there when I was working on it I only did it cos I thought it would be underwater
It's ludicrous to assume that we won't come up with a better alternative in the next 50 years though.
In which case, the markets would see a rush for the cheap energy and make fossil fuels redundant without the additional cost to the economy, environment, lifespan and health.
Surely the emergence of AI marks the granting of new licenses a total folly? We could have the answers in a much shorter timescale.
Are you ready for the shock of a lifetime...... It's still perfectly fine and people aren't sharing their living rooms with fish and seals just yet.
And until we do have the answers, we certainly would cause environmental, economic and lifespan harm if we don't keep the option open. A lot of so called AI is simply faster processing of predetermined algorithms.
Well the incentive for new production is certainly there. The government will give oil companies back 91p for every pound they spend setting up a new rig. So a billion dollar investment instantly costs a fraction of the amount. Like the oil companies wouldn't invest in it anyway...
Yes. This is a journalist copy of a report written by a company as an advert to get investment in, to bid on licenses for the Pilot field. 'could be', 'perhaps' and 'maybe' carry the report and are reliant on a government white paper that has now been adjusted and changed. The UK government has never instantly paid back 91% of investment in a new rig.
That's a fair opinion. There's certainly huge tax subsidies. But there are for all industries - car, steel, manufacturing, IT, energy etc. to encourage investment.
It’s such a good deal, this company hasn’t managed to get anyone to invest and have never made a penny profit (in fact they made a £1.6m loss this year).
Ignore the doom-mongers, says new UN climate change chief Doom-mongers do more harm than good, the United Nations’ new climate change chief has said. Prof Jim Skea, the newly elected head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warned that apocalyptic messaging merely “paralyses” the public and fails to motivate them to protect the planet. The Scottish physicist also said that the world warming 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, to which the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global temperature rises, was “not an existential threat to humanity”. “Every action we take to mitigate climate change helps. Climate protection is always cheaper and protects people from the dramatic consequences of global warming. This is all the more true if we have exceeded the Paris climate target. “The world won’t end if it gets more than 1.5 degrees warmer. However, it will be a more dangerous world. Countries will struggle with many problems, there will be social tensions. “And yet this is not an existential threat to humanity. Even with 1.5 degrees of warming, we will not die out.” “Man has his future in his own hands – we can all make decisions that make our world safer and better,” Prof Skea added. Ignore the doom-mongers, says new UN climate change chief (msn.com)
Good example of nudge theory and choice architecture being used well IMO. Tell people the world will end and most will give up, and many will blame others. Tell people they will still be alive, but it will be quite **** if they don’t do something and more are liable to give a **** and do something. Interesting at that level, on that topic, they don’t have an agreed communication strategy.
