No they won't. An industry does not think wrt long-term benefits for others, just for itself (and mostly in the short-term). Pollution has a distributed effect - it's spread out, a corporation is happy to pollute as long as they're making a net profit at it. They'll offload their costs onto anybody, if they can.
It's people who think in terms of 'general economy' (i.e., citizens) who should be concerned about something hurting the economy. I'm affected by a drop in economic growth, polluting industries might be better off polluting anyway.
Not mine, not yours, We are talking in too general terms. There are specific situations where you are right and specific situations where I am right. My point is that any industry seeks innovation, otherwise it will perish. Innovation usually takes place in the form of discovering new ways of producing goods more efficiently than the existing ones. More efficient means higher yields, meaning, usually, less waste and therefore less polluting.
As for the energy producing industry, innovation means not only new ways of generating energy, but also improving the old ways, usually by increasing efficiency, which means higher output with the same input, and less pollution for the same output. That is generally speaking.
Clearly you missed the point.
Nope, I just don't agree with you. Why people think I don't understand what they mean when is just that I don't agree with them?
It's something of a famous quote explaining why industry will never properly control it's pollution, as you just agreed with above. Do not suggest that industry will self regulate, and then agree with a statement saying they won't.
Already explained above.
No, they are not a primary source of energy. But they allow us to concentrate primary energy production, which makes it easier and cheaper to reduce emissions.
Nope, You lose some energy when you transfer it into a battery, you lose even more if you keep the battery charged but idle over time. (I see it every day when I fully charge the battery of my laptop in the evening and I turn it on the following morning, It doesn't say 100 % charged, it says 90 % or something like that, and much less if you leave the battery unused over the weekend) You don't reduce emissions, you increase them because of that extra you have to pay to charge your battery and keep it charged.
Well then, perhaps you would like to suggest a superior model we can use? Despite all its missteps in the past, Economics is the best study of the financial world around us. Until you can do better, I'd suggest you not bash it.
Pointing out missteps is not bashing.
Moreover, if you decentralize energy productions, and then distribute the energy in the form of fuel oil and gases, you lose energy transporting energy. Decentralizing energy has arisen because of automobiles, however you tend to waste more energy in the transportation.
Dude, decentralizing energy production has nothing to do with automobiles. YOu are mixing up things. When you have a big coal plant burning coal and producing energy, you have a centralized energy production. THen you have to transport that energy to the place is going to be used, and you lose energy in the transportation, the farther, the more energy you lose. Decentralizing would be to produce the energy you need on-site so you don't waste part of the produced energy by transporting it from one place to another.
As for automobiles it make no sense talking about centralizing since we use automobiles to move around. ( Jeez that is what automobile stands for, auto = by itself mobile = moving, like la donna, qual piuma al vento)
And electricity transmission will get cheaper before moving oil around does.
'Will" denotes wishful thinking. We don't have room temperature superconductor materials and they are not expected in the near future. Until then, moving and storing electricity is more expensive.
There are a number of commercially produced electric cars now approaching the market. Many industrial vehicles today are run off of Hydrogen reactors.
So, how come I haven't seen any yet in my neigbourhood? (appart from my neigbour's electric wheelchair?
Because it's not that easy to change.
It is when there is a clear benefit. I have changed from floppy to CD and from CD to DVD. In this case the benefit is obvious.
Although the technology is around, it costs money.
That is the whole point. it costs money, there are much more expensive that gasoline cars. It shows how much people really cares or believes in the global warming thing. Does Al Gore have an electric car? NOPE. (If he had, it would be in the news) That is exactly how much he really cares about environment.
And like several people on both side of the argument have pointed out, nobody is going to change unless their competitors are.
Just the opposite is true. The first company who introduces a new product in the market is the one who takes the largest share. The company who discovers a new niche and put its product in the market first is the one with more possibilities of becoming leader in that niche. The real reason there are not electric cars running on the streets is because nobody wants to buy any.
