By grossly inefficient you mean twice as efficient as one of the most common ways we convert stored energy: burning gasoline in an otto cycle?
Irrelevant to the discussion at hand, where no otto cycle engines are involved.
Yes it is inefficient, around 40-50%. But it does have some benefits in that it actually scales quite well compared to say batteries.
It doesn't. That's why TCO on a HFCEV is far higher than a BEV.
Jimny engines would have to pass emissions acceptance and then the vehicle would have to pass crash testing. It's difficult for a small vehicle to survive the partial offset crash test and we actually make light trucks do that here. Finally, as a light truck it would be subject to the chicken tax. It's three major hurdles to cross and then no, I don't think they would sell "like crazy" here, though they certainly would sell. But Suzuki left the US market already so they would also have to implement a dealer and spares network again, so that's a fourth impediment.
So no, it's not as simple as "regulations bad". Suzuki was already making the post-Samurai Jimny for other countries when they left the US auto market in 2012, and if they thought it would have been a contender, they no doubt would have stuck around.
America has long used distractions of creating new external problems instead of solving our internal problems.
Politicians in general are experts at patting themselves on the back for "solving" problems they created in the first place.
Believers are made when God answers prayers.
Every American president since Carter has been a war criminal.
If you're expecting accountability, revise your expectations.
Having lived the last 50+ years knowing the US as the leading country in innovation and technological advancement, it truly astounds me how the situation seems to have completely reversed now.
What's happening is that the Republican plan for decades is being fulfilled. During the Reagan administration they began compromising education in order to produce low-information voters, the actual phrase was they were trying to eliminate the "educated proletariat" and they succeeded. Now enough Americans are dumber than dogshit for them to sell fascism as freedom. We've maintained our technological advantage until now by importing educated people from other countries, but now that we're abusing anyone who's not whiter than white, they don't want to come here as much and they're looking for other homes. Also, whether they want to come here or not, the goal is to get rid of the brown people.
And, paradoxically, this only worsens the US position in relation to China, the very scenario that the same people who reject clean energy fear so much.
Yes, but the people making the decisions are in their sunset years and can also afford to leave the country.
The actual big cost in power for most places (Not just australia) ends up being infrastructure anyway.
Every now and then the local conservatives here have a sook about how green energy is making everyones bills go up. But when you actually look at where the hikes in bills came from, its almost always maintaince of ageing power grids, usually in areas serviced by the old coal and gas stations, because the infrastructure is just so old.
Never underestimate the value of shifting responsibility onto someone else. If an individual manager at a bank had to make the call in order to approve a loan, it would be too much pressure and most of them would fail at doing it. But if they can pay some self-described expert to distill the decision into a simple metric, then if it doesn't work out the banking management can just shrug and point at it being bad luck. Because they used the industry-accepted expert, so now nobody is to blame.
Regulating markets is a never ending process. At no point can a government just set it and forget it when dealing with capitalism and profit motive.
Do you guys know what you're doing, or are you just hacking?
