The key argument advanced by the proponents of electric vehicles is that they greatly reduce CO2 emissions. However, this doesn't seem substantiated, and this has major public policy implications.
ICE engines are at the peak of their development and as they are phased out,all of those wonderful engineering skills will be lost. This is the great tragedy of this forced transition.
Interesting analysis but I disagree with the methodology and, thus, the conclusion. There are downstream emissions in EV production - but those will diminish greatly over time. American Lithium producers are already focused on emission-free, geothermal extraction and production in Imperial County, Calif. which, if successful, would be a strong model for others. The U.S. Department of Energy is investing heavily in battery recycling, too, so that also reduces downstream emissions by eliminating the need to re-do the lithium and graphite production process from scratch. As well, EV charging companies like Electrify America and EVgo are investing in production of one unit of renewable energy for each unit of electricity they use to charge EVs, so investment in Electric Vehicles also becomes a major, new investment in renewables. Once you factor all of these points into a methodology, it changes the result.
Whether we like it or not the agenda is to push EVs on us. The horse has already bolted. In Australia with the biggest selling sedan now, Tesla. Have you noticed the price of fuel and cars? This will continue to make it difficult for people to drive cars—and that is the point. Only the well off will be able to buy EVs.
Of course this is based on a premise pushed by the globalists and politicians, that we are in the midst of catastrophic “climate change”. The data does not bear this out as severe storms have not increased the past 100 years and deaths from weather-related events are way down. Atmospheric physicists and climatologists like Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen point this out repeatedly, and the fact that average temperatures are skewed by the Urban Heat Island Effect.
One other factor: global population will start declining later this century due to rapidly declining birth rates which means less energy consumption. The same way that we turned our world upside down with Covid policies will happen with the push to net zero,
Very interesting article.
ICE engines are at the peak of their development and as they are phased out,all of those wonderful engineering skills will be lost. This is the great tragedy of this forced transition.
Interesting analysis but I disagree with the methodology and, thus, the conclusion. There are downstream emissions in EV production - but those will diminish greatly over time. American Lithium producers are already focused on emission-free, geothermal extraction and production in Imperial County, Calif. which, if successful, would be a strong model for others. The U.S. Department of Energy is investing heavily in battery recycling, too, so that also reduces downstream emissions by eliminating the need to re-do the lithium and graphite production process from scratch. As well, EV charging companies like Electrify America and EVgo are investing in production of one unit of renewable energy for each unit of electricity they use to charge EVs, so investment in Electric Vehicles also becomes a major, new investment in renewables. Once you factor all of these points into a methodology, it changes the result.
Whether we like it or not the agenda is to push EVs on us. The horse has already bolted. In Australia with the biggest selling sedan now, Tesla. Have you noticed the price of fuel and cars? This will continue to make it difficult for people to drive cars—and that is the point. Only the well off will be able to buy EVs.
Of course this is based on a premise pushed by the globalists and politicians, that we are in the midst of catastrophic “climate change”. The data does not bear this out as severe storms have not increased the past 100 years and deaths from weather-related events are way down. Atmospheric physicists and climatologists like Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen point this out repeatedly, and the fact that average temperatures are skewed by the Urban Heat Island Effect.
One other factor: global population will start declining later this century due to rapidly declining birth rates which means less energy consumption. The same way that we turned our world upside down with Covid policies will happen with the push to net zero,
It’s NOT gonna happen - not enough minerals on earth 🌏