"Electric car range anxiety to be cured by battery that charges in five minutes"

Well that is the line taken by climate alarmists.

Of course *I* wouldn't base my estimates of global climate change on a glacier here, or a wildfire or a polar bear there.

I'd base it on the *total lack of significant warming* in the last 23 years.

Yes but they start with incorrect data.

Bill

F****ng hell! Mystic Meg speaks!

Bill

So the Religion of Global Warming should destroy the ancient traditions of all other religions?

Bill

A typical Dave non sequitur.

Bill

Oh yes they have:

If you want a green solution you don't dump the excess heat into the environment? It could result in more global warming!

Nothing about greenwash makes sense anyway

Ok you put the cars into insulated housings and use the hot airr to heat the restaurant above...

Engineeers can certainly arrange such things - I've been on 2 brewery trips organised by Engineers.

but the answer they give you can vary.

They do say exceptions prove the rule.

Depending on methodology. I suppose there might be some who suck air through their teeth and without delving into detail and give an approximate answer. Say +/- 10%.

Actually, or course, we didn't cope, especially before phones. You might get a letter a week later saying your 8th cousin had pegged it a week previously in the west of Ireland.

But then, people took that for granted. It was how it was. Today, you tell people they will have to cope, and their response will be short, pithy, and Anglo-Saxon.

Mmmm. Think I'll move off-planet. After all they say that the Earth being hit by a 10-mile asteroid is an extremely rare event. But suppose they're wrong.

Telegrams were a common method of fast communication before telephones were widespread in homes.

You mean lots of pet hypotheses. A theory is something that has evidence to back it up.

What, in 1830? Gosh, who knew!

Have you not noticed the increase in range in the short time EVs have been around? And think it impossible it will get even better?

I'm very sure you think religion will save the planet Bill. And you've got plenty company.

I can't help feeling that we're sort-of going back to the days of stagecoaches, only these days the frequent stops (to change the horses) will not need to be quite as frequent, but will take longer.

Some filling stations imposed ridiculously low limits. [With one I used to go to it was 50p max/min.] The predictable result was long queues of cars topping up as frequently as they could, even though many would have had tanks that were already nearly full, and they didn't need any petrol. A far better policy would have been (say) 5 gallons minimum, with a payment still for 5 gallons if you took less.