Mad Max world has an unreasonably robust gasoline production infrastructure.
Huh, all this time I assumed they got gas from dead people's cars, but I just looked it up and that only lasts 6 months.
This bugged me about The Last of Us as well. If I remember correctly at some point they siphon gas from a car on the road...20 years after it was abandoned.
Now I'm vaguely curious what a mad-max type car barbarian apocalypse setting would look like in a world where everyone had transitioned to EVs long before the apocalypse
You'd hear the roar of the baseball cards in their tire spokes long before you see the bicycle horde coming over the sand dune.
Car batteries last for around 10-20 years, so don't think that would work out.
Would it be possible to make more? I don't imagine one could manufacture something on the level of a modern EV battery without modern industrial equipment, but electric vehicles technically existed even at the point where cars were first getting invented, made by individual inventors and such, just with much lower speed and range. How useful a vehicle like that would be I'm not sure, but if there's no easily obtainable oil around, maybe better than nothing?
Would probably be easier to go back to using animals at that point. You can make crude batteries without high tech manufacturing, but they're going to have low energy density and likely gonna be made out of toxic stuff. So not ideal for vehicles.
Well those sweet-ass trucks aren't gonna buy themselves
Yeah and just imagine the car insurance costs for those apocalypse-mobiles. It would cost a small fucking fortune every month! How can anyone afford to drive one of those?
Do they ever explain where they get the gas for those things?
I never understood why they did not switch to solar power when the fossil fuel got so sparse.
Because the fossil lobby won and there is no renewable power source.
It's just america that chooses to live like that. The rest of the world juat goes on
Mad Max takes place in Australia though.
Few know the movies are actually documentaries chronicling the lives of people living in the Outback.
Outback is a funny way to spell Perth.
Realistically they should be literally rolling coal
Because then they couldn't drive around in awesome frankensteined together muscle cars.
Reads like an advice: think long-term, start the transition as early as possible. So, basic rationality.
It would be interesting to see them update that with current data since global PV installations are estimated at 392 GW for 2023.
It is unrealistic to imagine that we could jump into a full-scale infrastructure replacement in one year. To set the scale, the U.S. uses about 3 TW of continuous power. A 1% drop corresponds to 30 GW of power. Our modest 2% replacement therefore would require the construction of about 60 new 1 GW power plants in a single year, or a rate of one per week! Worldwide, we quadruple this number.
What capability have we demonstrated in the past? In 2010, global production of solar photovoltaics was 15 GW, which is only about 6% of what we would need to fill a world-wide energy gap of 2% per year. Even on a tear of 50% increase per year, it would take 7 years to get to the required rate. Wind installations in 2010 totaled 37 GW, or 14% of the 2% global requirement. It would take 5 years at a breakneck 50% per year rate of increase to get there. When France decided to go big on nuclear, they built 56 reactors in 15 years. In doing so, they replaced 80% of their electricity consumption, which translates to about 30% of their total energy use. So this puts them at about 2% per year in energy replacement.
Time to invest in silver paint.
WITNESS!
Pssh, that's just a picture of the beltway around DC in the morning.
There is not going to be MadMax. The rich people will have their reasons for wanting to colonize Mars or even go to Venus, as the CEO of the crashed Titanic submarine wants. We can be happy if we can leave the underground bunkers without a fireproof suit and oxygen mask.
I'm just saving some blood boys for the future.
I ride eternal on my old crappy bicycle.
The Mad Max open world game is so underrated. I bought it without much expectation because I liked the setting and then it was one of the few games I 100-percented.
Parents: put some money aside. Government: pay taxes over that. Parents: do it with cash. Stores and others: we don't accept cash anymore.
