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The only true ecological cars are those that are in the parking lots.
Yes, R2R in general needs more support and for mass-market EVs even moreso.
How do you feel about less car-centric urban design, then?
The problem I'm seeing with current pedestrian-focused urban design, such as the '15 minute city' (everything you need walkable within 15 minutes), is a tendency to forget, or in some cases outright dismiss, the needs of people who can't get everywhere on foot. I'd be happy to see pedestrian-focused urban design with accessible mass transit, but that needs to come with an understanding that for some people reliable and safe walking distance is measured in the very low tens of metres, and that for those of us who are wheelchair users any steps or any slope over 1 in 10 is a no go zone. In practise that means some form of vehicle access is needed pretty much everywhere. It doesn't need to be general access, you could restrict it to accessible electric taxis, but it needs to be there or you start shutting disabled people out of cities.
OTOH its pretty simple to restrict what people can buy, as the UK has done by ruling no sales of internal combustion engine only vehicles post 2030. I strongly suspect that will be expanded to hybrids as well. No one will be forced to buy one, but if you want a new car post-2030 ....
Oil could also be produced by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, seas and oceans.
This would turn hydrocarbons from an energy source to an energy transfer medium, like hydrogen. Are there any new developments on artificial photosynthesis or biofuel technology?
Why produce a complex hydrocarbon, when you can use the same enegy directly, or to generate hydrogen or simple alcohols? Oil is far from the most efficient target for that kind of process, and would have the same pollution issues as existing oil-based fuels.
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There is actually, though its all still very small scale. Large Macroalgae's like Kelp seem to be hot ticket for carbon sequestration, aquaculture, and bio fuel crops. It grows incredibly quick and requires no input asides from an upswell current, downsides are the development of infrastructure to keep it in place and it can be finicky with water temperatures requirements.
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In the same order it was said that Solar Cells were bad because they couldn't be recycled, well the truth is they weren't being recycled, not because they couldn't be but because the supply of surplus, aged out cells was insufficient to initiate industrial scale recycling. The thing is now earlier generation cells are starting to be recycled in large quantities it has actually been discovered that they are highly recyclable with less wastage and greater efficiency that many if not most other modern products.
Because I hate vulgar and radical Greenpeace-style environmentalism. Is it so hard to understand? Tom Clancy had foreseen all this in "Rainbow six".
So in a nutshell you are opposed to electric cars and emissions reductions because people you don't like / fear are in favour of them?
Got it, the drive to electric is to reduce the presence of US in OUR cars. Electric of itself as a propulsion form is already begining to fall away with alternatives that are just as green or better, some just happen to include batteries in the direct drive process. The truth as you stated in the link is to make US the lemmings and put us on public transport which cannot carry the current load, let alone present changes and I have zero access for one. My fifty year old VW does few miles and has a better carbon footprint than many new cars due to the fact that it has not been replaced many time with associated carbon impact and is reduced in mileage and maintained properly. Sometimes people admire the car for being unuual and 'quirky' but other times I get harrassed in the street/car park by zealots who want to burn her. What will THAT due to their carbon footprint?
Sure, and they also want to eliminate cattle farms. Those too are victims of environmental fury.
Well cows do fart an awful lot but its likely more related to the land clearing associated with cattle, i.e. burning forests, creating smoke that drifts across countries and again, deposits particulates that cause nasty diseases.
