like robing Peter to pay pall Paul they forget to tell us a few things.
Saltx shows potential linked to greener steel and Cement production. These two huge markets have major challenges in lowering their climate footprint. The EU puts a lot of pressure on these fields, which have the worst climate impact.
It will be very simple..... since China and India are not part of the Paris climate treaty all of the cement and much of the steel production (except quality products) will come from these countries in the future. Positive effect on the climate = zero! Actually worse! It will only work, if we have an energy source on hand which is inexpensive AND safe AND environmental friendly.
But the real big deal is IMO.... the EU commission decided today, that in 2035, no new cars with a compustion engine are allowed to be produced.
That is in 13 years! That is a real big deal for all automotive companies and their suppliers. Worst case hundreds of thousands jobs lost!!!
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-car-engine-ban/
We now have less than nine years until 2030, when the UK is set to ban the sale of new combustion engine vehicles. That’s roughly the time it takes to watch around 63,000 episodes of Great British Bake Off, host two football World Cups, vote in barely two General Elections and see at least one new US President take office. In other words, it really isn’t that far away.
That is a real big deal for all automotive companies and their suppliers. Worst case hundreds of thousands jobs lost!!!
E-cars will reduce the job numbers by a factor of 3 at least The maintenance is much simpler and does not need the manufacturer. No alternator, no oil/filter change, just for the breaks but at a much higher interval time because of E-break by the motor. No turbo, no exhaust, no gearbox, no coupling,....
So the car mafia will loose a large part of its evil influence like once tobacco had to go through.
E-cars will reduce the job numbers by a factor of 3 at least The maintenance is much simpler and does not need the manufacturer. No alternator, no oil/filter change,
Right. Both maintenance and manufacturing labor are reduced, as are the total number of parts. That is why electric cars will be cheaper than gasoline ones, once the technology matures.
Plus, manufacturing is becoming more robotic every month, so even if electric cars were as difficult to manufacture as gasoline cars, the number of workers would still decline.
So the car mafia will loose a large part of its evil influence like once tobacco had to go through.
(You mean "lose.") It does seem the manufacturers were opposed to electric cars for a long time. I do not know why. Perhaps they understood that electric cars will ultimately be cheaper? Some people say the Board of Directors and big stockholders at auto companies also held oil interests. That sounds plausible but I do not know if it is true. Anyway, all automobile company opposition to electric cars has now vanished.
The goal to replace gasoline cars by 2030 with electrical ones will not fail on the car side, but on the infrastructure. There is no way that we will have enough power plants to produce the necessary electrical energy by 2030 (even when LENR technology would be available today), and even less likely are we going to have transport capacity in the electrical grid to support the loading stations necessary by 2030.
Only hope would be everybody has an Rossi e-Cat to at home load his cars battery, but who wants to bet on this solution? 
