Dirty Secrets Of ‘Clean’ Electric Vehicles Started by Rogerdodger, 04 Aug 2020
If we replace all of the UK vehicle fleet with EVs, assuming they use the most resource-frugal next-generation batteries, we would need the following materials: about twice the annual global production of cobalt; three quarters of the world’s production lithium carbonate; nearly the entire world production of neodymium; and more than half the world’s production of copper in 2018. And this is just for the UK.
We are already pushing the existing electric grid to the limit.
That does not even consider where all of this "New Electricity" will come from!
Most likely it will be "fossil fuels" or nuclear power plants, with their eventual radiation disasters.
Maybe we will all be using gas generators at home to power our "carbon free" EV! LOL!
WSJ: "The market for backup generators, microgrids and solar-plus-battery-storage systems is booming as homeowners and businesses grapple with a less reliable electric grid."
When you disregard reality, you can see beautiful unicorns and fairies everywhere you look...Except at the gas station.
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By 2035, the chief automakers will have turned away from the internal combustion engine. It’ll be up to the grid to fuel all those new cars, trucks and buses.
This "carbon-free" power can help juice up a whole fleet of sleek vehicles that aim to leave the internal combustion engine behind.
But that’s on a good day. Even now — before this state and the country’s grand ambitions for an electric future are fully in motion — there are too many bad ones.
Seventy-four times last year, the wind across Upstate New York dropped so low that for stretches of eight hours or more barely any electricity was produced. Nearly half the year, the main transmission line feeding the metropolitan area was at full capacity, so that no more power could be fed into it. Congestion struck other, smaller lines, too, and when that happened some of the wind turbine blades upstate fell still.
PS: Please ignore the tremendous environmental damage caused by rare earth mining for battery elements.
China Wrestles with the Toxic Aftermath of Rare Earth Mining
The mining has dumped excessive amounts of ammonia and nitrogen compounds into the region’s ground and surface water. Other pollutants, such as cadmium and lead, also are released during the mining process; long-term exposure to these metals poses health risks.
In addition, rare earth mining done near uranium deposits has also led to radioactive material clinging to the elements in some areas, according to Xiang Huang, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo in Canada, who studied the environmental and health impacts from rare earth mining while earning his PhD at Beijing University.
“The end impact,” Huang said, “could be on the central nervous system, cancers like bone cancer, skin cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory issues.”
Edited by Rogerdodger, 20 February 2022 - 01:48 PM.
