Reply To: NIMBY FUD

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The other issue being a large component of that energy usage is also transport and heating (in colder climates).

The article only seems to discuss electricity generation, which FF is ideal to compete with, but what percentage of that usage is purely for electricity generation?

The main one that will take more time to replace is heating, the transport cycle is usually around 10-15years for the bulk of the market, so if electric based vehicles became widespread and cheaper (may take some advancement here as well), transport could be converted quite easily.

The issue is heating, many countries which developed with large gas reserves, their heating systems in the properties tend to be based around gas fired heating systems, which do not in themselves easily convert to electricity. The users of these systems will be quite averse to changing them due to cost. Unless the electricity is so cheap that the change will pay for itself within a few years.

Converting purely to ‘renewables’ as they like to be called, is not practical or cost effective, certainly in the short term and other systems need to be in place for the bulk of the generation due to the general intermittent nature of a lot of these systems.

Climate change can happen and has happened many times before, whether or not humans are influencing the climate as significantly as some people would like to make out is unclear at this time.

Whether climate change will cause the doomsday scenario a lot of extremists declare is also subject to more investigation.