Blackouts by 2050 ( Archived) (4)

I wish our fearless leaders lived in the real world. No fossil fuels! Totally green! All electric!
Yeah, that works. Go plug your EV car in somewhere in the Ukraine. For entertainment, watch videos of the fire departments using double or triple the water attempting to put out that battery fire EV. And then have them re-torch. Again and again. Even days or week later!
See the children deep in the earth, digging out rare earth minerals and mining lithium for those batteries. How long before landfills get filled with discarded batteries.
Half of our electricity is made by fossil fuels. Wind and solar work intermittently. And people suffer from NIMBY...dont ruin the view! No new high lines over our land!
I have an idea to conserve electricity. TURN THE DAMN LIGHTS OFF! Look at views of our cities in the night. Skyscrapers lite up like the Fourth of July. What happened to the old days when they were mostly dark except for a foyer and that red blinking light on the roof to alert planes? You mean to tell me that that many people work third shift? Or even late. And if late, why is every floor lit up?
A cleaning crew? So they cant light up the rooms they are in? Or even the floor they are on? And then TURN THE LIGHTS OFF?
People in the city bemoan the fact they never can see the stars. Go to the suburbs or towns and drive around in 1am. Most houses are dark. Maybe a light on in one room. And they are living in that house. As in occupied. What is the reason for office buildings, skyscrapers of offices and all the rest to be lit up? Poor countries do OK in the dark. Developed seem to be terrified of the dark. WE have no tigers lurking!
Now we are to pay the countries that have over populated sub marginal lands. Suggestion...dont build in a coulee, side of an eroding cliff or at sea level and then whine when nature does what nature does.

Good old fall back..wood! lol. They keep talking EV, etc, need better batteries. OK. How?