Dear mhaze,

Your back-peddling is appreciated.

"Your back-peddling is appreciated."

No back-peddling Foxy. Just pointing out what you failed to understand. Check, if you want, my views posted here over the last decade and you'll find they are consistent on this issue.

Dear mhaze,

Overegging the issue again I see.

The 2021 huge electricity supply shutdown in Texas was not due to renewables but rather fossil fuels in a privatised sector: “Contrary to some early hot takes, gas and coal were actually the biggest culprits in the crisis,” said Eric Fell, director of North America gas at Wood MacKenzie.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-02-20/texas-blackout-how-the-electrical-grid-failed

But he wouldn't be able to be mobile without the
artificial leg.
Foxy,
You just confirmed what we thought for a long time !

Kudos mhaze, ttbn, Indyvidual.

Hydrocarbons are their own storage, renewables are not.

There are too many people in the world- now 8 billion- and there will probably be one billion more in 13 years- this has been the pattern for a while. China and India are bigger than the next eighteen nations combined. Also more nations are demanding mechanization. This puts pressure on global energy supply chains and raw materials and creates conflict.

It took giants such as Edison, Tesla, etc about a hundred years of competing systems to develop the global power systems of 2023- some of them failed- it will probably take much longer for a totalitarian government bureaucracy to push through the same thing.

We probably don't have enough lithium to power all of the world's cars.

When the electrical systems fail it will be advisable to have a wood gasifier and a generator to power your car and get some electricity.
Assuming that the government doesn't mandate the destruction of ICE motors. You probably should investigate durable foods that don't require refrigeration. You can't diy service lithium battery packs but you can service an ICE driven car.

Electricity prices are already rising and are expected to rise much more- driven by both global population and ostensive environmental policy.

Lithium batteries are about 4x less energy dense than hydrocarbons.
See Wikipedia energy density matrix.

The solution is less people especially in high growth and high density nations- Australia is not one of them- immigration into Australia makes the global problem worse.