92exp4x4
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There definitely is no quick solution. Anyone who thinks electric cars will be the complete end all short term solution in just a few years, is not in tune with how stuff works. The only way for us to move into a fully green and electric future, will be if we completely develope fusion energy. Its the only way we can generate enough power to feed the actual demand. Nothing else can touch the output. For those unfamiliar, fusion is the reaction that makes the sun exist. Until very recently, it took more energy to fire a fusion reaction than what we got out of it. A lot of ground has been gained recently, but its not at all close to the point it needs to be. Not only to be reliable but also to be the major source of power it would take to be completely green.
Completely green also requires minimal or no batteries. So the reaction would need to be local and controlled, but able to be started and supplemented by outlying sources. Energy would need to be produced as its consumed. That's really hard to do when you begin to think about it. It changes the design and engineering of nearly everything we have done in the last 200 years. If we can harness it though, wow. You think stuff is changing fast now! That would definitely be the start of something huge. It would make the industrial revolution look like the days of the invention of the wheel.
Completely green also requires minimal or no batteries. So the reaction would need to be local and controlled, but able to be started and supplemented by outlying sources. Energy would need to be produced as its consumed. That's really hard to do when you begin to think about it. It changes the design and engineering of nearly everything we have done in the last 200 years. If we can harness it though, wow. You think stuff is changing fast now! That would definitely be the start of something huge. It would make the industrial revolution look like the days of the invention of the wheel.