3rd October 2018 "Sparklers?"

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Wednesday 3rd 45F, windy but becoming bright as the sun rises. An early ride to the shops is indicated if malnutrition is not to rear its ugly head. 😉 Another seven miles to save the planet.

Denmark's prime minister wants to ban petrol and diesel cars sales by 2030. The problem is that the EU dictatorship has to agree. Denmark's tiny population buys less cars per year than Hamburg alone. So it isn't in a strong position to force change. Fortunately many other EU countries are discussing this very subject.

Quite how they intend to put a million zero emissions cars on Denmark's roads is not yet explained. The Danish tax system is based on vehicle value. Electric cars are presently far more expensive than the genocidal, fuel based vehicles, like VW diesels. So the Danish tax system itself is a major hurdle to such plans. Having a large fleet of electric cars would provide the desperately needed, overnight grid storage for wind power and increasing solar. While all that car tax helps to pay for large fleets of new and very much noisier, American fighter aircraft at £100 million per crash landing. 

Conventional "oil powered" vehicles and diesels in particular, are causing major ill health around the world. The remaining, vehicle manufacturers desperately avoided getting involved in "alternatives." That is until Tesla proved it was possible from a standing start. An all-electric car set a new record on America's most famous hill climb at Pike's Peak. The sight of standard Tesla models easily beating American muscle cars in drag races suggests that "petrol heads" will soon need another name. What about "Sparklers?" It should go with the garish tattoos.

The battery problem is still not resolved but feverish research is going on around the globe for greater energy density. To provide greater range without thermal risks. Not to mention smaller and lighter and hopefully, very much cheaper, battery packs. Our desperate need for mobile communicators is helping to drive the charge. While the coming flying 'drone' taxis are in desperate need of range and speed which demands smaller and lighter batteries. Electric bikes come along way down the list of priorities but we may yet see trickle down from the more traditional, serial road kill. 

The potential for valuable patents for major new battery breakthroughs is not to be ignored. Isn't it odd how many electrical terms crop up in our everyday language? Meanwhile, the geopolitical changes brought about by a major loss of interest in oil production will be dramatic.[Hopefully.] Oil and gas provide power to some of the most corrupt, backward, downright evil and least desirable dictatorships on the planet. Placing billions of lives, particularly women's, under their reign of terror and mayhem.

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