Certainly don't consider myself part of the 'fossil-fuel lobby' having lived totally off-grid for the last 35 years. However I don't think we can gloss over the challenges of simultaneously massively upping our electricity output and distribution to accommodate EVs whilst replacing the huge heating energy demand currently met by oil and gas .... from personal experience I'm also aware of the frequency of 'gaps' in the output of renewables .... week or ten days at a time of dull windless weather with little output in the winter .... the 'renewables-lobby' answer being big batteries (currently unicorn-tech at the sort of national-demand levels and likely to stay that way) or 'interconnectors' as it's "always windy somewhere in Europe" ... aside that it isn't in extreme cases, it is pretty obvious we can't have the sort of massive redundancy of installed capacity in any given area to enable it carry big chunks of Europe when it's the only windy bit ... try living really off grid for a bit to understand how intermittency can come and bite you in the bum! ... and although we personally can exert the discipline to live within our energy means, societies don't work like that and mass power failure or brownouts just crash your economy and lead to civil unrest .... we should definitely be working towards renewable goals but reality isn't negotiable ... you can't eat 'pie in the sky' 🙂
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