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b_b · 3416 days ago · link · · parent · post: It’s time to make the call – fossil fuels are finished. The rest is detail.
I get all the stuff about efficiency (although I have to point out that this is backward: "An ideal internal combustion engine intakes at absolute zero and exhausts at plasmid temperatures"; the hot reservoir is where you take from, and the cold is where you dump to [work being the difference in the intake heat and output heat]), as I have a degree in ME also. I'm not arguing against electric cars; I'm wondering about what challenges they'll face and how the world can cope with them. The fact that to date, we haven't seen a mass market EV shows us that the challenges are real, even if surmountable with time.