Posted on 10/01/2016 10:29:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The large scale roll-out of electric cars on EU roads will help fight climate change but more electricity will have to be generated to power the vehicles which, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned, could have its own impact on global warming.
The European Environment Agency this week said that larger numbers of electric vehicles will not be enough to make to the transition to a low-carbon economy. The EU’s transport sector still depends on oil for 94% of its energy needs.
The reductions in carbon dioxide emissions in road transport gained from the scaling-up of electric vehicles would outweigh emissions caused by the continued use of fossil fuels to generate the extra power needed to keep the cars on the road, the EEA said in a report.
But in countries where more electricity is generated through polluting fossil fuels, the environmental benefits will be lower, according to its analysis. …
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But I keep seeing articles that say that electric cars run using free and abundant “wind electricity”.
Oops
“Electric cars help fight climate change”
Brought to you by people who think electricity appears at their outlets by magic.
What? Have the Unicorns quit jogging on their treadmills?
My mama always used to say, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
I thought electricity was magic?
Unicorns are being outlawed. They fart.
This is the REAL reason you can’t have real light bulbs anymore or run your air conditioner just because you’d LIKE to.
Electric cars are an anti-oil LIE.
But electric cars are powered by rainbows and unicorn farts.
Coal fired cars just doesn’t sound as green.
Gee...Do ya think they’ll figure out what it takes to generate electricity too?
Road vehicles with storage battery-powered electric drive trains are a rich man’s toy, and shall remain so until a cheap and reliable means of GENERATING electricity on-board the vehicle becomes available.
The fuel cell, which is perhaps the best course to pursue, would serve nicely to replace the cumbersome and relatively short operating range of rechargeable batteries, but the means of refueling these converters of energy to electricity is still not in place. The best of all fuels would be hydrogen, as its “combustion” product is water vapor, but hydrogen mines are still not in production.
There are ways to vastly increase the production and distribution of hydrogen fuel, but there has not yet been enough infrastructure developed.
Gee who’d have thunk it more ‘appliances’ increases the load on the grid, and they are in shock. Hey greenies move over and let real engineers solve the problems.
How many windmills or solar panels does it take to build an electric car from scratch?
Electric cars could eventually create a lithium shortage,which unlike electricity isn’t renewable.
So there is an issue but it looks like the EU is getting it wrong.
Hey EU, where you gonna get your electricity? Coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear is relatively cheap. Solar, wind, hydro, etc not so much.
Here’s an idea, build less electric cars. Problem solved.
Send the check to M Kehoe c/o FR.
That was easy...
5.56mm
But steam powered stuff sure is fun to use.
My usual response to people with electric cars.
“Nice coal powered car you’ve got there.”
- Since coal accounts for 40% of the electricity in the US.
“Nice nuclear powered car you’ve got there.”
- Since nuclear power accounts for 20% of electricity in the US.
“Nice racist car you’ve got there. (This one really get the liberals.)
1. All power plants are located in poor and/or minority parts of the country. So instead of polluting your nice pristine neighborhoods, you shift it on poor people.
2. Electric cars are totally tax-subsided. So you are only able to buy this car because other people pay part of the bill. Oh and even then it’s too expensive for poor people to buy them.
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