The mechanics of it? The history of it?
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Mostly the prospects of it. The race against carbon really does not seem winnable.
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Why? Electric transportation is salvation, a way to stave off the malthusian trap.
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I guess you can be depressed about this, but as a ~solution~ it seems exciting to have on the horizon, however slowly it comes.
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And this explains why so many bros are focused on things like self-driving cars instead of addressing the more fundamental problems of energy and climate change.
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We basically got 100 years of development for free by scooping oil out of the ground. Need to transition to a different model before we run out.
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Running out is no longer a problem with gas+electric. Carbon emissions is the problem.
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Any particular sources you recommend?
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from what I've read it's already too late to prevent some degree of ocean warming (+2C probably) and that will undoubtedly cause a lot of problems and hardships, but it's not too late to prevent the warming from being worse than that.
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also from what I've read the political problems with fission plants are really intense and our actual best short term solution is more-or-less shitcanned by FUD.
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