The midwest is being hammered by extreme cold once again thanks to arctic displacement caused by deranged air currents; collectively called "the polar vortex" There are reports that in Texas they had to shut off the windmills because they were icing over. So basically, windmills are a fair-weather energy producer. Same with solar panels. Not only do they underperform in the cold, they actually get snowed on, and if there is defrost technology, that costs so much energy that it nullifies many of the energy gains.

Everyone knows that the cold causes cars difficulty in starting. This is not because of the combustion, but because of the BATTERIES. Cold batteries struggle to work properly because the cold affects the chemistry of the battery--it slows down chemical reactions and thus it's harder for batteries to deliver sufficient spark to the spark plugs. (they should use high capacity capacitors in addition for the initial crank, imho)

There's going to be a shitton of priuses on the side of the road dead because their batteries just won't work. It's already happening now. With combustion cars, someone can still jump you and you can make it to somewhere warm.

Taken together, GREEN TECHNOLOGY is not cold-compatible---it's at best, wildly problematic in the cold, and at worst a total failure in the cold.

And yet, entire industries are tripping over themselves in order to changeover to electric. I personally really like electric, or getting away from fossil fuels in vehicles, however, we don't have a sufficient infrastructure technology to mitigate combustibles just yet, other than going all-in on nuclear and somehow storing the energy it produces as hydrogen batteries or some other kind of cold-resistant rechargeable battery.

The problem is: BATTERIES. That's the real problem. Storage.

I believe we're going to go back to mechanical storage. As in flywheels and wind-up clocks (advanced springs). Because chemical is bullshit. It just IS bullshit right now. We need to scramble to anything that's better than Lithium Ion batteries. They are total bullshit. Heavy, inefficent, and wildly overhyped in terms of their recharge numbers--everyone knows this. They develop memory and then they become bullshit.

I am not a shill for fossil fuels or nuclear. I personally have a love hate for nuclear. There is no doubt we have to use nuclear because it can be the cleanest energy there is. It just has to be done with SAFETY FIRST.

They need to be STANDARDIZED across the world

Thorium molten salt reactors are the way to go. They don't melt down, you just just them down and they cool off. They are safer in terms of quakes and problems. They use rare earth nuclear fuel more sparingly. They are less efficient than other fission reactors but again, Safety first. They are still 20,000x+ more productive than damned windmills and solar.

Solar and wind will never provide the needs for infrastructure, esp in the case of extreme cold. Run the numbers yourselves. If you're honest, you'll see the same thing I'm seeing. It's just not there. Nuclear is the future. It has to be done right: Safety. No more meltdowns or ruining the earth for millions of years.