Tesla being "refueled" mainly with coal powered power plants
Electric cars have been called a moral virtue as well as the solution to record-high gas prices.
It's a lie!
In a column highlighted by Powerline blogger John Hinderaker, engineer and energy expert Ronald Stein examines the source of the power and the materials in batteries. He concludes EVs are bad for the environment, and serious ethical questions are raised by the conditions under which the materials are mined.
"Each mine usually consists of thirty-five to forty humongous 797 Caterpillar haul trucks along with hundreds of other large equipment," he writes. "Each 797 uses around half a million gallons of diesel a year. So, with an inventory of just thirty-five the haul trucks alone are using 17.5 million gallons of fuel a year for just one lithium site."
A typical EV battery, Stein notes, weighs 1,000 pounds, contains 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds of cobalt, 200 pounds of copper and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.
"It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining," he writes. "For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just one battery."
Fish should be a large part of the animal protein one should consume. However, The most common way people in the U.S. are exposed to mercury is by eating fish containing methylmercury and from their dental fillings (avoidable) and from vaccines! Yes, some Mercury is emitted by natural sources, such as volcanoes, geothermal springs, geologic deposits, and the ocean, but the largest amount of mercury comes from coal combustion in coal powered power plants! Most of the electricity that fuels the Tesla's of this world come from coal powered power plants.
Though it may surprise many environmentalists, nuclear power is environmentally friendly, or “green.” Society needs clean, cost-effective energy for a number of reasons: global warming, economic development, pollution reduction, etc. There is a popular perception that this means moving toward solar, wind, and other forms of renewable energy. However, a more in-depth analysis reveals that those alternatives are not yet practical. For the foreseeable future, nuclear must remain one of the top producers of energy in the United States.
Nuke plants are create the cheapest way to get electricity. Generation costs/kWh for new nuclear (including fuel & O&M but not distribution to customers) are likely to be from 25 – 30 cents/kWh. Coal is cheaper (roughly 45 percent ofU.S. electricity at a seemingly bargain price) — just 3.2 cents per Kilowatt hour (KWh) of electricity, or enough power to run your microwave for an hour. But the real cost of that energy is, in fact, 170 percent higher, due to pollution. Solar and wind costs are in dollars per KW, not cents. The graph below shows just how much nuclear power plants save the environment.
The Environment
Again truth about electric cars are that they are harmful to the world's ecological impacts. The people pushing wind, solar and battery operated cars are crooked corrupt politicians and BIG BUSINESS's world wide to get richer! It is NOT to save the planet! Don't be fooled by BIG MEDIA's lies. Open your eyes for yourself to The Plain Truth about today's crooks who really want to destroy your way of life and enslave you and yes, even kill you if you don't comply.
