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Thank God for electric cars and the Paris Accord
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https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/10/reminder-wind-power-blows-and-also-sucks.php
And another reminder, this time from Bloomberg, that electric cars aren’t all they’re cranked up to be in terms of reducing emissions:
The Dirt on Clean Electric Cars: New research shows some drivers might spew out less CO2 with a diesel engine.
Beneath the hoods of millions of the clean electric cars rolling onto the world’s roads in the next few years will be a dirty battery.
Every major carmaker has plans for electric vehicles to cut greenhouse gas emissions, yet their manufacturers are, by and large, making lithium-ion batteries in places with some of the most polluting grids in the world. . .
Just to build each car battery—weighing upwards of 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) in size for sport-utility vehicles—would emit up to 74 percent more C02 than producing an efficient conventional car if it’s made in a factory powered by fossil fuels in a place like Germany, according to Berylls’ findings. . .
For perspective, the average German car owner could drive a gas-guzzling vehicle for three and a half years, or more than 50,000 kilometers, before a Nissan Leaf with a 30 kWh battery would beat it on carbon-dioxide emissions in a coal-heavy country, Berylls estimates show.
Just how many ways can the whole green racket fail?
But China will save us! They’re investing way more than we are, we are constantly told by Thomas Friedman and other betters. Well guess what mom? From the BBC:
China coal power building boom sparks climate warning
Building work has restarted at hundreds of Chinese coal-fired power stations, according to an analysis of satellite imagery.
The research, carried out by green campaigners CoalSwarm, suggests that 259 gigawatts of new capacity are under development in China.
The authors say this is the same capacity to produce electricity as the entire US coal fleet.
Read that last sentence again and let it sink in. And then shut up about China.
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You can tell that green gaia religionists like numbers and sh*t that refute their eco religion just about as much as vampires like holy water. The feelings run deep in this one. Scratch a leftist find the Spanish Inquisition.
Kreist you're a stupid kunt like Bob. Terrific. Another one.