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Yeah. Instead of burning gasoline for our cars, we will burn oil/gas for electricity for our cars.
by x220 8y ago
Yeah. Instead of burning gasoline for our cars, we will burn oil/gas for electricity for our cars.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoAn internal combustion vehicle burns gasoline or diesel for it's entire life. An EV gets cleaner every year as coal and gas are replaced by renewables. Even today, burning coal and natural gas, an EV is cleaner and more efficient fueled off of those generators than a petrol vehicle. We'll need enormous amounts of storage to move to intermittent renewables; lucky for us, a million EVs are sold every six months, and that timeframe continues to narrow.
- x220 8y agoSure, electric cars are an improvement, but they aren't the end-all-be-all of climate change. The bulk of the problem is out of the hands of individual choice.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoFind ways to contribute towards actions that scale. Climate change is hundreds of problems actioned simultaneously. http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank
- stetrain 8y agoEven if that were the case, it's still an efficiency improvement. Large turbine power plants + electric motors with regenerative braking is still about twice as efficient well-to-wheel as gas powered cars. https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/wells-to-wheels-electric-car-efficiency/ https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/wells-to-whee...
- x220 8y agoSure, electric cars are an improvement, but they aren't the end-all-be-all of climate change. The bulk of the problem is out of the hands of individual choice.
- stetrain 8y agoYes, there's definitely more to be done. Electric cars go hand in hand with moving to renewable electricity sources as well. It's easier to change what's on the other end of the grid than it is to stick solar panels, wind turbines, and nuclear reactors on cars. I see the "well your electric car is just burning coal/oil/gas anyway" argument repeated pretty often despite being an oversimplification and usually wrong.