Everything else ppl worry about comes back to energy storage - EVs can have tons of horsepower, it just drains the battery
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EVs "do poorly in the cold" compared to ICEs bc gasoline holds SO MUCH energy you waste most of it as heat anyway
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Petroleum is an insanely good energy storage medium on account of being compressed for millions of years like that
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Burning up the Earth's oil supply is like unwinding an enormous spring that took millions of years to wind
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I mean ICEs are kludgey and dangerous and bad bc there's so much energy in there and we can't let it out w/o constant explosions
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A cylinder contains a little bomb that just keeps going off again and again and after decades we've made this mostly predictable and safe
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(Then again the Orion project was to power a spaceship by setting off nukes repeatedly to launch it forward)
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I sometimes feel like to really understand how the carbon crisis works we should first admit that fossil fuels are really really great
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There wouldn't be a problem if that weren't true. Fossil fuel is a crazy tremendous amount of energy in an incredibly convenient package
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That's the issue. The processes that packed that much energy up can't be replicated artificially, not in a human timeframe
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It's a spring we can't rewind once unwound, which is why depending on it means we're totally fucked when it's gone
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And that's why the global warming "side effect", too - to make a huge battery of that much biomass fundamentally changed the Earth
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To unwind that big of a spring means fundamentally changing the Earth back
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