True. I just wish we would try more ideas to see if it would help, but governments seem to have very few ideas they are prepared to try.
If all new car tyres sold in this country (where possible) were eco tyres it would have a large effect. Its simple, perfectly possible but nothing much happens and there must be many things like that which we could do. I have eco tyres on my classic car and they are way better than the tyres it had on originaly.
Agree we need to do something, need to do a lot frankly, and private motor transport is perhaps one of the worst things, but am skeptical that some ideas are maybe more greenwash than green. To be honest I'm not sure what the overall efficiency of electrically produced hydrogen powering fuel cells is compared to conventional batteries - I'm guessing they're much worse, but I don't know that for a fact by any means. It is worth exploring the tech at least; I agree on that anyway.
One of the most egregious examples of greenwash is "carbon capture" from the air, which however it is done will produce more carbon than it can ever remove; it's plain nuts ! If you are serious about capturing carbon, plant some bloody trees and stop adding carbon to the atmosphere in the first place
The other thing we should be doing is building nuclear power stations - as well as windmills and solar etc. And there are a lot of low tech things not well exploited like heating water via solar - no rare metals in the solar cells, no complex electronics and subsidies; just some pipes, tin sheets and black paint
