Electric cars.

I always remember all the fuss about getting rid of nuclear waste, it was considered the worst possible thing for the planet.
It's strange how we lurch from one expected environmental disaster to the next.

 

@JWK If you charge at home and at work EV will certainly be much more of a practical proposition. For those who can do neither, and there are estimated to be over 7 million terraced houses in the UK where home charging is largely impossible, it's an entirely different matter.

 

That's exactly what has happened in Iceland, with electricity costs being so low, demand has increased. Now they have an issue, they need to increase capacity but some people object to utilizing natural resources and to leave nature completely untouched. For a country that has had an abundance of hydro and geothermal some say to be carbon neutral by 2040 is nothing but a pipe dream.

A looming power shortage in Iceland could have dire economic consequences - ArcticToday

 

You can't blame them for wanting out, we would be the same if domestic prices were fluctuating like they have been in southern Norway recently. They were predicting early last week that by Thursday afternoon the cost per kWh would hit $1.18, nearly 20 times greater than the previous week.

Norway campaigns to cut energy links to Europe as power prices soar

 

E-bike fire destroys family home.

E-bikes: Battery fire destroys family home days before Christmas - BBC News

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has raised concerns of an increase of house fires where charging phones, laptops, e-bikes and vapes have been the cause. They were called out to 26 fires in 2024 where these chargers have been the cause of the fire, compared to 3 incidents in 2018.

Scots warned over 'concerning' rise of house fires | Glasgow Times

 

The cause of the fire seems, more often than not, the use of cheap batteries, chargers or both.

That said, it isn't only 3rd party batteries that have problems. I had charged the battery for my camera and it wouldn't fit in the camera. Close inspection showed that the battery had swollen. Potentially I suspect one step away from either exploding or bursting into flames. It was the battery that came with the camera.