Tuesday, 24 March 2020

No More Excuses?

Some people have argued that developing electric cars for transport and heat pumps for warming accommodation would not reduce carbon dioxide emissions sufficiently to be worthwhile. A study, involving several European universities, appears to have shown that the savings are generally substantial, even if non-renewables are used to generate the needed electricity (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/23/electric-cars-produce-less-co2-than-petrol-vehicles-study-confirms). The only place where this did not currently apply was in highly coal-dependent Poland. There appears to be little doubt that we should be rapidly expanding these technologies at the expense of petrol-fuelled cars and gas-heated homes.
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