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To be honest, I didn’t think the big benefit of electric vehicles was in fact going to be a massive direct reduction of greenhouse gases, but rather the decoupl
by jwdunne 5y ago
To be honest, I didn’t think the big benefit of electric vehicles was in fact going to be a massive direct reduction of greenhouse gases, but rather the decoupling of vehicles from a fuel source that emits greenhouse gases.
If our cars run on electric, that’s one less huge thing that stops us from switching over to non-fossil fuels and it doesn’t matter if we fuel the car by solar panel, wind turbine or oil power station.
- renewiltord 5y agoYeah, this is literally the strangulation pattern in software engineering. You intermediate the dependency with an interface, then switch to the functional alternative gradually, then remove the old dependency, then remove the interface.
- vmladenov 5y agoEven with dirty power, it’s a more efficient use of fuel all around to rely an 60% thermally efficient stationary plant instead of transporting a mobile ~35% efficient engine.
- jwdunne 5y agoDidn’t think of it that way, so that was a gap in my understanding. I think EVs are a brilliant thing, none the less. It’d be no good replacing the grid with clean energy whilst we still burnt dirty fuel to get to work. They’re more efficient use of power and decoupled from the source of power. Even bigger argument for them!