"Green" Tech: Same ole, Same ole

California is attempting to "ban" the sale of new gasoline based power equipment (lawn mowers, chain saws, etc...) by 2024. The law that passed has provisions to keep moving the date back, by the way, so it seems unlikely that gas power equipment will really be banned.

There's currently no 1:1 replacement for gasoline or diesel tools and machines. There are electric tractors and electric lawn mowers and chain saws, but they're really not up to the task in many cases. The energy density of liquid fuels far surpasses that of batteries, of course, and the batteries have a suite of significant drawbacks. It's not very clear why the powers that be are obsessed by a switch to electric powered everything.

If we're running out of oil, which is totally plausible, it's extremely foolish to attempt to switch to electric everything. It will require more resources to change the entire industrial and energy infrastructure, than to attempt to conserve and switch to a more efficient overall economy. If we aren't running out of oil, then it's even more foolish of course. It's just an exercise in make work activity.

The sales pitch for electric vehicles back in the early 2000s was they'd be cheaper, last longer, and be easier to maintain... none of that really panned out. They're expensive and the battery is still a major weak link. Also, the manufacturers seem to be hell bent on extracting as much cash as possible from "owners" of the cars and are moving toward a software type relationship with customers with EULAs, monthly fees, and other similar nonsense.

It looks like "green" energy, batteries, cars, are just more of the same old same old rat race, hamster wheel debt based nonsense. There's nothing green about any of it--except the sales pitch. It's the same old people with the same old scams in a new PR spin. Fuck them.