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It's a lot easier to build when you can tear down people's houses anytime you like to make way for the train tracks.

And until that long-lead-time investment in public transport pays off, we'll still need cars, and the choice is gas, hybrid or electric.

Here's a snapshot of the UK grid's energy mix this morning: https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

Gas is the largest single component, but gas plus coal together comprise only 42% of the energy mix. The rest is nuclear and renewables (though I quibble about biomass being counted as a renewable).

And if you look at the change of the energy mix over time, fossil fuel usage has been declining, though taking massive powerplants offline is not a quick process.

Adding thermal storage would require mass to be added, unless some existing component could be converted to dual-purpose. More mass in an EV means lower range and an increase in the already high vehicle weight.

So what is China trying to extract from Zambia and Tanzania?

You can if you're building out technology to wean yourself from that critical resource at the same time.

That was all entirely altruistic? Then it must be coincidental that it sounds exactly like the infrastructure the Brits built in India (minus the 5G), whose sole purpose was wealth extraction.

They don't ask, but they want to extract all the resources they can. and never mind the people living there.

The US is not the only imperialist power.

Kill off bitcoin mining entirely and massively tax AI use of compute resource.

Greenwashed firms.

Is there any independent corroboration of that figure? Xi's word isn't worth shit.

And while we're at it, let's vilify gigahoarders of money. Who elected them and how can we fire them?