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And therein lies the problem. True AI, if ever reached, won't take long to realise that the only real problem to be eliminated is the human race. And by extension, biology on earth in this geo-chemical universe. .

The efficiency is very low, meaning a very poor return. Ultimately it makes no sense anyway, since wave power is only wind power with much of it's energy removed and in a more inconvenient form. So we do the sensible thing and concentrate on wind power at present. Obviously the most powerful...

At that price and spec you can't go far wrong and the enclosed chain ensures many years of low maintenance. Just remember to look after the batteries during the long off season periods of not using them. Do a short top up charge from time to time, preferably every second month not used to...

Similar for me, but my position much worse since in old age, being in the cold triggers heart attacks. It's progressively got worse with age, so now at 86 symptoms now start at as high as 15 degrees C. It stops me getting sufficient exercise in fresh air for several months a year. It's too...

No it isn't favourable, as the many COP talks demonstrate, plenty of hot air and promises but little action. We'll probably do what we usually do with every problem, leave it until the last minute when it's too late and then make increasingly desperate efforts to compensate for the terrible...

All the other species on the planet which we have been decimating is the answer. .

Perhaps it's the grand master plan. Having almost destroyed the planet and reached the millennium, we now have to step back a thousand years of progress to save the planet by having simple, half starved lives in mouldy homes. ;) .

Easy to answer where between. Every journey in Britain is possible with today's e-cars, or even my 5 year old one. Most journeys are very easy to do, but of course there are some more difficult ones that need a bit of thought in advance, using ZapMap. For the small minority who will often...

Earlier this year a Hyundai e-car broke Stirling Mosses old record for time taken to drive through 7 European countries, and adding an 8th country too. They were only using the existing public charging network. Later this year a What Car team drove a Porsche Taycan e-car visiting 14 European...

Mainly due to storage space running out after the panic stockpiling, combined with much milder weather than usual. The problem is far from over, though hopefully there will be a Ukraine cease fire after another summer of fighting in 1923. .

I disagree, since the generation and therefore spare night capacity is growing faster than the e-car takeup and electric home heating takeup. There will be some evenness, but as the war in Ukraine is halted in a year or so time and more wind farms come on stream, that will settle. Later...

Then don't get into debt. The standing charge increases are not a rip off by our supply companies, they dont receive a penny of them. .

I don't use then and dont have to. Most suppliers do not force their use and those who do only do it to the bad payers. That is th customers fault, not the supplier's. .

Doh!! Stop trying to teach granny to suck eggs. Of course I know that there are many users like yourself who e-cars just don't suit. But until we get to replacing more than half of our car fleet, there are huge numbers for whom they are perfectly ok, so it is they who are taking them up...

Oh dear, shows how little you know. Some of the companies are now linking low cost periods to the smart meters to allow MORE time for low cost charging, not less. .

This second answer is to this part of your post: It will take at least 15 to 20 years to replace all the 32.7 million cars we have. 15 to 20 years to solve your common problem, so during that time it will be all those who can have home charging who will be predominately the e-car users...

This is what happens to people like yourself who haven't followed the subject and frankly know far too little about it. So you reinvent the wheel. We've already had these, they were the original hybrids and they have failed and all been discontinued. For example The Chevrolet Volt The...

Why aren't your brains functioning? Soundwave: The answer to your question is that almost all of the national grid capacity is spare between midnight and 4am every day. Then the current is on offer very cheaply to get rid of it. E-cars have charge timers, my typical one has two of them. The...

When will it penetrate? That is for when the demand is there, daytime and evening. That isn't when most are in bed asleep, factories shut, supermarkets closed, trains not running. Then all the current they would have been using is spare and going begging at very low prices to try to get rid...

He's yet another idiot who just doesn't understand that there is an abundance of electrcity at night. Always has been, always will be, and it's when most e-car charging takes place. Spare me the Homer Simpsons. .