Posted on 06/21/2017 5:50:03 PM PDT by Rockitz
The car batteries used in a Tesla generate as much CO2 as driving a gasoline-powered car for eight years. And thats before they even come off the production line.
This news, from a study by the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, will no doubt delight all those U.S. taxpayers who have been forking out billions of dollars to prop up Teslas share price having been assured by their government that subsidizing overpriced electric cars represents a vital step towards combatting climate change.
The report, commissioned by the Swedish Transport Administration and the Swedish Energy Agency, cannot easily be dismissed because it is a meta-analysis (ie a summary) of all the available studies on the subject.
The report shows that the battery manufacturing leads to high emissions. For every kilowatt hour of storage capacity in the battery generated emissions of 150 to 200 kilos of carbon dioxide already in the factory. The researchers did not study individual bilmärkens batteries, how these produced or the electricity mix they use. But if we understand the great importance of play battery take an example: Two common electric cars on the market, the Nissan Leaf and the Tesla Model S, the batteries about 30 kWh and 100 kWh.
Even when buying the car has thus emissions occurred, corresponding to approximately 5.3 tons and 17.5 tons, the batteries of these sizes. The numbers can be difficult to relate to. As a comparison, a trip for one person round trip from Stockholm to New York by air causes the release of more than 600 kilograms of carbon dioxide, according to the UN organization ICAO calculation.
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Truly the enduring mystery of why Tesla is now more highly valued than such non-Potemkin U.S. car manufacturers as Ford and General Motors grows more mysterious by the hour.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
See my post#8...
The theory included driving alternating current pulses into the Earth at its resonant frequency from a grounded Tesla coil working against an elevated capacitance to make the potential of the Earth oscillate. Tesla thought this would allowing alternating current to be received with a similar capacitive antenna tuned to resonance it at any point on Earth with very little power loss.[126][127][128] His observations also led him to believe a high voltage used in a coil at an elevation of a few hundred feet would “break the air stratum down”, eliminating the need for miles of cable hanging on balloons to create his atmospheric return circuit.[129][130] Tesla would go on the next year to propose a “World Wireless System” that was to broadcast both information and power worldwide[131][132] and attempted in 1901 to construct a large high-voltage wireless power station, now called the Wardenclyffe Tower, at Shoreham, New York. By 1904 investment dried up and the facility was never completed.
THAT would be almost as good as a Mr. Fusion to power the car.
a very expensive hoax that diverts $$$$$$$$$$$$$ and brain power down the rabbit hole... pretty clever of those smartie pants who hate humanity ....
Elon Musk getting rich sucking off the government teat....pulling the wool over stupid people’s eyes
“... because it is a meta-analysis (ie a summary) of all the available studies on the subject. “
A proper meta-analysis is much more than a mere “summary”. A meta analysis involves using sophisticated statistical analysis to aggregate the findings of several studies — thus (amongst other things) greatly reducing the margin of error.
Assuming (1) the meta-analysis was done right, and (2) the initial studies were done right — then, these results are far more telling than a mere “summary” would have been.
But for fossil fuels, "green" energy cannot exist.
Or a tank full of ball lightning.
doesn’t matter really; intent is the only thing that matters to libs, not actual results.
PT Barnum would be proud.
“Prius drivers are now Global Warming Deniers!
Demiers? Why, they are murdering the planet!”
Well, when these self-appointed “stewards of the environment” drive 45mph in the fast lane, they are in a sense “murdering” all of us.
Older Prius vehicles have a battery that is only 1.3 KWh, so probably have a lower carbon footprint than a Tesla battery. I’m not sure if they take into account the fact that you have to mine the minerals to build the battery and refine/ship them to the factory. The battery can’t just be tossed Into a landfill when it wears out. You have to recycle or dispose properly.
When you get that much cash from the taxpayers, it’s sure green though!
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