While some countries are more likely than others to sign an international agreement to phase out fossil fuels, measures to tackle fossil fuel demand by adding a higher carbon price are essential.
Mains-level electricity might become rare, but solar panels are so cheap, ubiquitous, and durable that we’ll have them for a while.
Plus every gasoline car has an alternator capable of 12v that can be spun by anything from a Sterling engine to a small child turning it by hand. There’s billions of them. Unless we all forget how cars work we’ll have at least some electricity.
You’re not wrong and my comment is supposed to be jokingly.
I’m sure you used your example to show how easy it is, it just sounds so terribly distopian.
Your point could have been an optimistic outlook into a different future but:
Why? Why of all things that can be used to turn an alternator, why the heck does it have to be child labor?
I could have said we put a dog in a treadmill to do it, like how we used to rotate meat on spits. But in my head I was thinking more of a parent using the electricity to do something and getting their kid to turn the crank.
Mains-level electricity might become rare, but solar panels are so cheap, ubiquitous, and durable that we’ll have them for a while.
Plus every gasoline car has an alternator capable of 12v that can be spun by anything from a Sterling engine to a small child turning it by hand. There’s billions of them. Unless we all forget how cars work we’ll have at least some electricity.
You’re not wrong and my comment is supposed to be jokingly.
I’m sure you used your example to show how easy it is, it just sounds so terribly distopian. Your point could have been an optimistic outlook into a different future but:
Why? Why of all things that can be used to turn an alternator, why the heck does it have to be child labor?
I took it to mean “even a child could do it!” rather than “we could make children do this.”
All good mate! xD
I just thought it funny sounding, but understood what you wanted to say.
I could have said we put a dog in a treadmill to do it, like how we used to rotate meat on spits. But in my head I was thinking more of a parent using the electricity to do something and getting their kid to turn the crank.