Question: What will power their replacements? Have the plans for a couple hundred nuclear power plants been drawn up? Is the funding for the build-out in place? This timeline is only thirteen years long, better get cracking.
And a comment: the sub-head for this article is a bit deceptive if you are doing lifecycle analysis of the CO2 produced along the entire value chain. Unless we go with the ancient/modern fusion story line: Intractable problem - hand waving - Deus ex machina - 100% reduction - happily ever after.
From Popular Science, October 28:
The major step will cut new vehicle emissions by 100 percent by that time.
It’s not just New York and California passing major measures to stifle and eventually stop new gas-powered car sales recently—just today the European Union announced their own version on Thursday. This step is just the first part of the bloc’s current climate legislation dubbed the “Fit for 55” package, which is meant to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent over the next decade.
The first step in the new deal is to reduce emissions of new cars by 55 percent of 2021 levels by 2030, with vans requiring a 50 percent cut in that time. This is higher than the existing target set by the EU in 2018 of 37.5 percent reductions by 2030.
The EU additionally aims to require car companies to cut emissions from their cars by 100 percent by 2035, effectively banning gas and diesel engines. This would make it impossible to sell new fossil fuel powered cars across all 27 EU countries.
The proposal faced resistance when it was first presented back in July 2021. Reuters reported at the time that the European car industry association ACEA argued that banning one type of technology was “not a rational way forward.”....
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Speaking of ancient Greek story lines there's Aristophanes' The Birds with its Cloud Cuckoo Land.
It's a comedy.
