The laws of physics and economics are demanding and unforgiving, and trend toward self-enforcement, the folly of men notwithstanding.
Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic.
A single electric-car battery weighs about 1,000 pounds. Fabricating one requires digging up, moving and processing more than 500,000 pounds of raw materials somewhere on the planet.
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Good luck with that fool’s errand!
“Yeah, but I don’t care what all your engineering calcs and lifecycle cost analyses show! We need to go Green, go Renewable!”
I had a chem professor who worked for dupont. He could have written the three equations and showed the truth. However, truth has never had much of an impact on the world.
I did not learn his level of chem.. but he was a great and compassionate prof.
I am to the point now of understanding truth doesnt matter I often ask, if I could prove X using your standard (not those heretical, unachievable standards) would you listen?
99 percent of the people I ask are closed to any idea, but theeir own.
“that taking fossil fuels and using them to charge batteries is worse than just using fossil fuels to power your car.”
AND...the corn used to dilute gas is a performance reduction also....ANYONE recall the riots in Mexico when corn prices jumped cuz of our stupidity re ethanol ??