• @explodicle@local106.com
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      151 year ago

      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.

      • @Sharkwellington
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        141 year ago

        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

        • 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?

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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            51 year ago

            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.

      • @eerongal@ttrpg.network
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        61 year ago

        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.

    • guyrocket
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      191 year ago

      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?

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬
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    231 year ago

    I never understood why they did not switch to solar power when the fossil fuel got so sparse.

    • BruceTwarzen
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      261 year ago

      It’s just america that chooses to live like that. The rest of the world juat goes on

      • @sdoorex@slrpnk.net
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        11 year ago

        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.

  • @Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    131 year ago

    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.

  • Karyoplasma
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    81 year ago

    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.

  • @XEAL@lemm.ee
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    41 year ago

    The future is my money devaluatig because I can’t even save for a fucking down payment for a house and now the EU is gonna make throw away my piece of shit ass car because it’s too old.

  • @CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee
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    21 year ago

    Parents: put some money aside. Government: pay taxes over that. Parents: do it with cash. Stores and others: we don’t accept cash anymore.