27-07-2017, 08:12 AM
LPG is only cheaper due to low tax. One of the issues about going largely electric or hydrogen is the huge loss of revenue from tax on petrol and diesel. Taxing hydrogen would be easy enough but electricity? You don't want to heavily tax domestic electricty usage just to replace the revenue. Or do you? I don't think you can discriminate between domestic and car electricity. It's not like red diesel as used for marine and other off road applications.
All these problems will be worked out over the next few years, where few might mean 5 to 25. Market forces are very powerful and at the moment they are pointing strongly towards renewable electricity generation with large scale storage. Whatever plans we might have for Hinkley C (an expensive white elephant which if this is anything to go by will never be completed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_...ower_Plant) or Trump might have for coal the market will prevail. Electric cars could be part of the solution, providing large scale distributed electricity storage.
Fortunately for the world, coal won't be coming back anytime soon. Fortunately for the UK, we're not paying upfront for Hinkley C and if it never gets finished all we're left with is a rather large lump of concrete.
We live in exciting times for energy production, storage and distribution. If I were at the start of my career rather than the end I'd likely be looking at power systems. For years these were seen as dull and old fashioned. Now they're sexy.
All these problems will be worked out over the next few years, where few might mean 5 to 25. Market forces are very powerful and at the moment they are pointing strongly towards renewable electricity generation with large scale storage. Whatever plans we might have for Hinkley C (an expensive white elephant which if this is anything to go by will never be completed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_...ower_Plant) or Trump might have for coal the market will prevail. Electric cars could be part of the solution, providing large scale distributed electricity storage.
Fortunately for the world, coal won't be coming back anytime soon. Fortunately for the UK, we're not paying upfront for Hinkley C and if it never gets finished all we're left with is a rather large lump of concrete.
We live in exciting times for energy production, storage and distribution. If I were at the start of my career rather than the end I'd likely be looking at power systems. For years these were seen as dull and old fashioned. Now they're sexy.
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