The real limits of the mind are often only seen when humans are threatened

Battery power is overated,, but you can't say so 

I am a baby boomer, and most of us still like to think things can only get better ;
After all, we have been the richest and most well off generation in history. 
We know this, if we are honest , because we know our grandchildren are not likely to be.
There are many causes,  but our guilt ( we have not done enough to create good work for all our children ) is blinding us to the costly cul de sacs ahead ; and the real reasons for our lack of real resilience . 

Our blindness doesn't stop our children worshiping the same God - the god of automatic progress. They call us dinosaurs,  but they throw things out old things too easily too! 
No longer do we look to God,  but we look to what NEW things are on sale .   Batteries will now save us?   Technology won't help us  if we don't stick at the study of circuits and connections and do that properly. We will think we can charge our cars on the way to everywhere.    

It's 9th November 2022 and Westerners are deeply threatened by things we do but which will have to change.( This means many are not thinking straight and are very vulnerable to quick fixers, which now include our very own broadcasting service. Media services have as much talk of new solutions (nice )as they do of NEWS ( not always nice)

PRECISION IN DECISION 
I put the current quick fix targets pushed by the ABC down to lack of experience and complete lack of precision; Precision is something you have to have if you are going to DO something and not NOT just talk about things. Technique or new Technology
Example :While the new ideas in Landline are appealing to many, wise producers know many of their ideas are NOT solutions and one would be unwise to buy in to most of them. 
Hypocritically,  the ABC does not employ scientist's with experience and YET arrogantly wants to be taken seriously . Ask me and I will give you many examples.

Batteries have their place but , let me tell you, they are not going to mow the extensive grass in our backyards . It will be obvious next year when sales of fuel mowers increases. 
There is nothing prophetic about getting the story half rightor assumming the light shines out of new products . 
If I give half baked advice to farmers they can easily go broke .
The ABC are guilty of shoddy workmanship --They do what salesmen do, and only sell the name. 

BACK TO BATTERIES and their place 
You see I am not against ion technology ( part of my work is to study ions and low voltage activity) just against thinking its the answer to energy ( it will not be ) or sound resource use .How do i know ?  
Keep using you battery powered lawnmower,  if you must  but please don't think its going to cut it when it comes to sequestration , power saving and the heavy lifting that is required to keep our economies alive .   
Study the situation on earth properly and you will see there are many alternatives to the growing cost of fossil fuels . Please resist the panic merchants who almost seem to retain power by their precautionary parenting pedantry on OUR ? behalf .
Many politicians of our day are happy to let us feel overly threatened , just like in the past . There is one leader who suggests " don't worry "  when you hear those sorts of reporters . This bloke  didn't advocate carelessness but rather close engagement. 

On 8th November ABCTV told us  ( by a veritable host of salesmen , students and UN upstarts ) that if we didn't do things in a certain way, we would be left behind and the world would go to hell. ABC insist we listen to their selection of solutions even though they have , like our leaders, no idea.
 Until their  desk collection includes people with experience they will insist on setting agendas rather than keeping all kinds of opinions ( to all sorts of unknowns) open to the public.  

I was deeply offended ( not for myself because I know the physics and the sustainable basis for a productive change) but for the now common  fanatical madness of putting ones hope in ONE Man-made solution that simply cannot do the job of substitution;    

Batteries  .

Plants can make alkanes ( much denser fuel that batteries will ever have ) more efficiently than any of the complex systems we have invented.  we must accept limits .
And this battery fixation comes because the ABC have an unreal and unreasonable faith that science will quite soon come up with 'better " when down to earth  practicing scientists know  sound science takes time , scarcity creates massive cost and no ion miracles are on the horizon ,  Their idealistic and unrealistic faith is going to cost us the earth". 
And as for paying ourselves to have cheaper gas -   another mere puff of wind!

It makes no sense to cut off carbon chain supply just because many people abuse it,  yet that's the ONLY thing these blind saviors are really offering in practice . Its cutting off our noses to spite our faces.

Because the wannabes don't really understand the issues, they offer only one and only solution each week . Because they exploit the guilt and fear of men(  in the same position as them and with the same guilt and fear about their actions ), their method relies on slight of hand , denial of scientific and realistic  limitations and uses misanthropy and fear to drive the fanatical mood amongst men . 
We will see how long the low watt throng around the meagrest of machines will last . 

Read more about other interesting and diverse ways to cut grass carbon chains than with your teeth and a blade ( eg using chemistry )

I have decided to leave this section for now as the media and society are in mad mood and can be expected to name a solution ( such as one identified here ) but not follow through on its FAIR implementation. 

As a result few westerners are thinking straight and deep leaving us ALL very vulnerable to quick fix solutions ---- like the over-promotion of battery use 

Because the threats (using up fossil fuels . excessive leverage of unsustainable investments incl energy industry, poor cost benefit of battery power and solar, ) operate in complex ways, most people are surprised to see gas prices go through the roof ; yet it was plainly going to happen.  
It's an alkane, but like so much envisioning of solutions it hasn't been see n to be one in all the simple demonizing of CHO's like coal . Such blindness is common and not easily resolved because any real solutions to our dependence on alkanes requires us to stop demonizing them ----- and start regulating their use and production.  we would rather keep pretending the future is in a new technology ( savior)