I listened to the interview with the florist. I'm not excusing any behaviour, but the florist sounded like an entitled boomer. She started up about cycle ways, and then when Julie responded slightly irritated was all "that's what you greenies always do". It honestly sounded like the florist wanted to pick a fight.
Also, an aside to this, but you have a real hate hard on for the greens don't you?
I think our schooling style has something to do with it. I have some experience with overseas education systems, and New Zealand values teaching learning techniques and critical thinking above straight rote memory. This can lead to lower test results at earlier ages but an increased ability to learn later.
I feel this could be applied to pretty much anything that politics argues over.
Agreed wholeheartedly.
This is the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
"They are coming to replace my favourite flavour" says racist Karen, standing in front of the vanilla ice cream but looking at other flavours around it.
So what this shows us is that education is complicated, and when trying to decode statistics we need a broad approach to ensure we aren't missing the forest for trees.
Almost as if these kinds of decisions shouldn't be left to politicians with no background in the field, and there should be a body of experts informing decisions...
I expect this to change. The problem is they pushed it out for light vehicles before it was ready. If it's going to work anywhere, it'll be heavy vehicles, shipping and aero.
But hell any new zero emissions tech is ok by me. Just...something other than dead rotten dinosaurs.
Look again. I'm not talking about light vehicles.
A BEV truck can weigh up to 5 tons more than a FCEV. Why would that not be a case use for hydrogen? Now scale up to a ship where volume is no issue. BEV shipping is a non-starter.
New battery tech is fantastic. But why would you assume new battery tech, currently prohibitively expensive, will come down with scale but hydrogen won't?
Ammonia is significantly more harmful in the event of a leak. Yes, it's more hydrogen dense than pure liquid hydrogen.
Ultimately I don't see a reason to dismiss hydrogen like some are doing. Is it the perfect solution in all cases? Of course not. Does that mean it is not a viable fuel source for transport? Absolutely not.
Scale solves most problems. Hydrogen also has other uses, such as steel production, which further increases the scale.
For light vehicles batter EV is likely to be the leading type for some time, as volume is more of an issue then weight for the ranges we need.
That's not entirely true. If you are purely looking at $/kWh then yes, of course this is the case. However that is not the only consideration when it comes to transport. Weight of the drive unit, use of rare earth metals, lifespan of the drive unit, energy density by weight, speed of recharge, ease of transport energy, and more are all considerations.
I'm not arguing that vehicles will become hydrogen electric. I agree they are not suitable without some serious technological advances. What I'm saying is that at a certain point, larger vehicles (trucks, trains, ships, even aeroplanes) will become more suitable to hydrogen.
I'm all for increasing rail and coastal shipping for cargo. Having lived overseas, it's criminal how much we rely on trucks here.
I can't find the exact figures, as it depends on battery range and battery tech. One study I've seen found a battery truck would weigh over 5000kg more than a hydrogen-electric version.
I've also seen figures of double the weight for a Li-Ion battery EV compared to HEV at ranges above 300 miles.
It is technically challenging, I don't disagree, but it has high energy density by weight. It also, of course, has lots of other applications. Steel manufacture being one.
But to be honest, even if it never eventuates and we get carbon neutral biofuels, I'll be happy. Anything is better than what we're doing right now.
No, I pointed out that, perhaps, the shopkeeper wasn't quite as blameless in the interaction as implied.
By far and away the most stuff you post is negative news about the greens, not about any other party (some labour before the election IIRC). But I'm not really hear to argue about this point, I just wanted to comment about it is all. If you disagree that's fine mate.