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In the "Not quite the future we ordered " department I found this link to illustrations of thr the year 2000 from 1900 .. https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/vintage-visions-of-the-future?utm_medium=reader2&triedRedirect=true

Chicago did ( maybe still does) something similar featuring cows... a fun event...

Wierd and creepy weird...

" Immediately " means two days later ? Of course.

Just one like all the above commentators. Two wouldn't fit between a lot of bollards (?), If that's the word for those posts that keep cars off the trail.

Indeed. I am also a solar enthusiast, but the first thing you need to do in any home PV install is cut consumption first. That's true for the whole society.

Exactly. But "they" are not interested in raising that labor intensive organic sweet corn for people ... especially if there are subsidies available for ethanol.

I've heard of farmers over here that overbuilt arrays expecting to sell excess to rhe grid getting less money than expected and turning to bitcoin mining to make up the shortfall. Yeah, that helps the climate...

Solar or wind plus battery storage is like the new plastic ... soon enough to be found everywhere ... and most of that power will end up wasted, just like most of today's power is wasted on trivial uses. See @Mr. Coffee post above about A.I., but energy waste is everywhere in the cities, and...

And as far as the economics of the EV transition, Ford doesn't seem impressed ... almost a $50,000 loss per vehicle... https://substack.com/home/post/p-146972186?r=hhp6b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

A.I. ( especially self driving cars and trucks) is another huge part of the transition that we aren't really ready for, but is happening now. Think about the amount of battery power needed for an A.I. based city to run for three or four days of no grid power . :eek:

Indeed. We saw that happening with the actors / writers strike regarding A.I. scraping "content " ... automatic plagiarizing.

Another fire ... a truck loaded with batteries ... Nytimes.com https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/27/us/battery-fire-traffic-nevada-california.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k0.0V9e.QGMZfga1ZPQF&smid=url-share

What has four wheels, is bright yellow, and sleeps two? A state highway truck ...

Here in Pennsylvania we have stacks of orange traffic cones by the sides of many roads... but our highways only have two seasons... closed for snow or closed for construction...

Actually 6 hours of hard use is really good...I was only expecting about half that based on electric tow motors I have seen.

Any real world report on how long those big batteries last , @kevinmccune .

You really shouldn't look inside ... or breathe inside...