Where do you think the electricity come from? Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear?
I can't speak for how electricity is generated at your end but locally our electricity comes from hydro power - electricity generated by flowing water which passes through a turbine to spin a generator to produce electricity. Unlike the nonrenewable fuels used to generate electricity, hydro power is clean, there are no waste products, and hydropower does not pollute the water or the air.
The infrastructure technology currently used to transmit electricity over long distances needs to be improved so that this type of power can be used by more people instead of just limiting it's use to people who live near power plants located on water sources that are capable of producing this kind of energy. I know this technology is improving, we not only provide electricity province wide but we are also sell it to our adjacent provinces and also to our US neighbors down south - this wasn't the case many years ago.
It's important to note that only a small percentage of all dams in the United States produce electricity. Most dams are constructed solely to provide irrigation and flood control and no additional funds are allocated for the creation of hydro power plants. More hydro power potential is available, the government needs to invest more money into this clean renewable energy resource.
Another form of clean electricity production is wind power - we are starting to see alot more of this locally with the construction of wind farms & such.
As for my other options, they're all serious alternatives too, especially if you're willing to invest the effort in making them work.
If everyone has the same attitude of they're not good enough, don't bother using them, you'll still maintain this oil-hungry pace which is getting us nowhere quick except for a polluted planet. Do these alternatives fix all the problems... NO. But they are a start in the right direction of reducing dependance on oil and reducing pollution. If you generate enough momentum going in the alternative energy direction, it's quite possible that other alternatives may come up as well. However continuing in the same direction as we're currently going pretty much ensures that none of these alternatives will get a chance at further development so of course they'll continue to be viewed as half-a$$ed solutions and scrutized by people who think we just have no other way of doing things.
Plus doesn't reducing our dependance on oil provide other benefits, reducing pollution and reversing damages to our environment, aren't we in a climate crisis as we speak, isn't it our duty to find a better way for the sake of the planet.
Hydrogen is going to be the fuel of the future.
Thermodynamics, hello!
Pollution, Climate Control, hello!
You're going to see 2 types of hydrogen power vehicles.
Vehicles with electric engines powered directly by hydrogen fuel cells and vehicles with engines that are converted from traditional gasoline powered combustion engines and powered by compressed hydrogen. It's going to happen - in fact it has to happen, if it doesn't, you can pretty much guarantee a planetary catastrophe.
Change is always difficult - I'll agree to that, but it's not impossible.
You can be a pessimist and say that it's too difficult to change and there are just too many obstacles in front of us preventing us from making the change. Or you can be an optimist and see that those obstacles are just challenges we will overcome.
How thick does the smog have to be before you say it's time we do something about this problem?
