Posted on 12/07/2024 6:01:22 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
It is often taken as a given that electric vehicles are friendlier for the environment and that we will all inevitably be driving them in the future. In this short video, Mark P. Mills of the National Center for Energy Analytics questions the government’s push towards EVs, and whether these “givens” are true.
500,000 pounds of rock to produce ONE batter for one EV.
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And more fun stuff.
Mark Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Faculty Fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.
One batter?
Car or cake?
Are you on the right thread?
Yes. Look at the last quoted line in the OP.
... or is this the first government-pushed technology change that is not designed to line the pockets of our political leadership?
LOL!
Ten percent for The Big Guy.
Well, it is a batter isn’t it?
500,000 pounds = 250 tons!
It takes a LOT of energy to excavate, transport, process and dispose of the remainder of 250 tons of anything.
Oh, I see. The poster misspelled battery. My mistake.
I thought maybe the Yankee was named Mark Mills.
An unfortunate error, as it’s gauranteed to misdirect the thread comments lol
The flaw, as I see it, is that batteries make a lot of sense - when stationary. Dragging one or more around with you is where they become stupid.
The “battery” for your ICE car is actually the atmosphere. Oxygen is a tremendous energy source and is continually renewed in the atmosphere by the Earth’s plants. It turns out that oxygen can produce usable energy with a large number of easily accessible carbon compounds. Your ICE car carries one of these around with it. What it carries around with it is liquid, reasonably dense and reasonably safe. It can even afford to be grossly inefficient in utilization, since the atmosphere is helping to produce energy. When the energy is used up, so is the liquid.
An electric battery turns out to weigh the same, whether it is charged or empty. Everything needed to produce energy has to be carried. They are a terrible idea for a mobile power source, in my opinion.
From the video:
1. Expensive (and will be for forseeable future)
2. Inconvenient (for most)
3. Make us MORE DEPENDENT on China
If half of all cars ON THE PLANET were EVs, it only would reduce oil consumption bu 10%.
To make a 1000-lb EV battery requires the minimg of 500,000-lbs of earth.
I tried baking an EV once, but the batter weighed a ton.
Not to mention the social and morality issues.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4764208/Child-miners-aged-four-living-hell-Earth.html
Thankfully Tesla is coming out with a battery that uses little or no cobalt.
If I read this correctly, really only batters should be buying/using EVs. The rest of us should stick to ICE automobiles.
That can be fun...
You explained your point of view very well. I agree with it.
Tesla is a beautiful scam, as is Elons rocketing skills. All of this for a net loss to Earths resources, and peoples money.
From what I’ve seen, they’re self- baking.
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