Originally Posted by
1hole
The bottom line question about electric cars is rarely discussed: how might they affect the CO2 level? The reason it isn't mentioned by the dominant liberal/fake news propaganda crowd is that electrics are not only unlikely to make much difference to world temps but the net difference will most likely be negative.
No one with his head on straight hopes for the day emergency electric vehicles start coming on line; God help anyone depending on a new fangled electric ambulance or fire truck or cop car with a dead battery!
However home recharging is done and how long it will require and how long the charge will last, the batteries MUST be charged or the magical vehicles are instantly useless. ALL dreamy promoter projections are based on the assumption that all things will remain as they are, i.e., a totally reliable electric power supply immediately at hand - and that is one very DUMM assumption!
The hopeful idea of using solar cells and windmills to charge storage cells to feed the high lines AND to supply our needed power when the weather doesn't live up to expectations is DUMM! No wind for a few days? Forget windmills. No sun for a few days? Forget solar.
A week of hurricane storm or wide area flooding will leave huge areas without meaningful surviving windmills OR cell farms. It often takes several weeks to restore damaged systems NOW and it will mean added weeks of no charged vehicle batteries in the affected areas. Add the time and costs of replacing thousands of acres of solar cells and destroyed wind farms and battery warehouses to the present time and costs to restore downed power lines and we'll see some huge increases in costs AND massive environmental damage just to get back to status quo.
That's a bad reality but even if no such destruction ever occurs (fat chance), solar cells and wind driven generators quickly degrade and demand huge routine maintinance costs.
Since it takes all our present electric systems can do to hold the line where we are it's obvious that if we depend on batteries to get us through a few long nights we must also have the present power system ready to take up the over the total load anytime the batteries collapse. We don't live in a vacuum, there is an unavoidable inneraction to everything; a Prius that could tow 6,000 pounds for 20 hours at 70 mph and gets 200 mpg is dead in its tracks if it can't be charged.
The ONLY way to assure our present levels of electric power will be standing by to continue power plant operations, all set up, running at idle and ready to take over the load. Or we'll do without electricity. And it won't just be vehicles, it will be dead cell phones and silly thumb games, dead LEDS and neon lights. No working elevators or heating/cooling and toilet flushing water in tall buildings (think about the smell of that for a big city minute). And hordes of dead cars.
So, NO, "saving" the world by reducing auto CO 2 isn't going to accomplish anything it isn't already doing; making lying rich folk like Algore richer.
NO anticipated batteries could provide the power for many homes and businesses for hours or - a very important survival point that's never mentioned - serious industrial operations for more than a few minutes.
Thus, we simply must keep the entire present power system in place and running as instant backup for any crisis that will surely come or people will die by the millions when all of the dreamy "renewable energy" battery powered systems die.
So, you want to "Save the World" AND reduce poverty? Okay, me too. First, lets forget electric cars for now. Then, if we mean it, let's demand that lib politicians not be allowed to destroy the existing electrical and nuclear and fossil fuel power systems that have made our current pleasant lives possible, and even expand what we have into impoverished 3rd world countries. If we don't, all the people of the world, including America (excepting the rich of course), will be as desperately poor as Haiti, Cuba and Sudan by the end of this century.
Global warming, such as it is, is caused by sun activity, not fossil fuels and/or CO 2. Try to get committed climate Chicken Littles to tell you what the global average world temperature should be; they'll twist and squirm a lot because they really don't have a clue. They're all quite sure we're all gonna die from sunstroke or heat rash or something else equally horrible if we don't get a Prius of our own this year but you will never get an honest answer, or even an honest guess, to that honest question!