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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?
... or is this the first government-pushed technology change that is not designed to line the pockets of our political leadership?
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.
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.
Has TexasGator given up on
his defense of a proven
failed energy source?
Ain’t heard anything from
him for a while now...
EV’s might work just fine
in Texas if you can find a
place to charge them in
between hurricane events,
but I’m pretty sure salty
roads and 30 below is
beyond anything he’s lived
thru. (Heavy sarcasim).
I’ll have nothing to do with a battery powered car until manufacturers make a battery like the zero point module from Stargate Atlantis. Those batteries were round cylinders easy to slip in and pull out then you can put them somewhere to recharge. It’s unrealistic to go on a trip and charge your vehicle for a half hour 45 minutes I mean you could be in a dangerous neighborhood if you get my drift.
Anyone with half a brain understands EVs are anything but environmentally friendly nor are those giant windmills and solar farms. They’re all environmental disasters.
Picture just 10% of Florida trying to leave their home area in EV’s to escape a hurricane.......and all needing recharging on the escape route somewhere between 200 & 300 miles from home.......