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Can you elaborate how gasoline is 'dirty' if the outputs were converted back into the fuel via carbon neutral means? Such technology would make gasoline have n
by tathougies 8y ago
Can you elaborate how gasoline is 'dirty' if the outputs were converted back into the fuel via carbon neutral means?
Such technology would make gasoline have no output, since the ouptuts would be reabsorbed. If anything, electric cars, due to the massive environmental damage due to rare earth mineral mining, would be more of an environmental disaster.
- 34k5jo3i4toig 8y agoEvery cycle has a 50% cost in renewable power. This is close to being carbon neutral, but it is not entirely. Its not a closed loop. You have a growing loss every cycle. Its digging yourself deeper every time.
- teraflop 8y agoIt is not energy neutral, but it is carbon neutral (if the electricity input is from a zero-carbon source). It sounds like you're suggesting that burning the fuel releases more carbon than was used to produce it, which isn't possible.
- tathougies 8y agoThe claim is renewable energy is not carbon neutral? Just to be clear -- you realize carbon can neither be created nor destroyed by any industrial process available to mankind?
- mrep 8y agoWell of course it's not 100% energy efficient. Nothing we do is 100% efficient because we cannot escape the second law of thermodynamics (entropy).