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That’s cool and all, but you’re assuming gasoline exists in pools, fully refined, under gas stations. Since you’ve priced in the entire lifecycle of every watt
by pkulak 3y ago
That’s cool and all, but you’re assuming gasoline exists in pools, fully refined, under gas stations. Since you’ve priced in the entire lifecycle of every watt of electricity, now you need to run it again taking into account the mining, refining, and transport of oil. Refining is literally boiling the crude and collecting the bits that come off. Most folks think it’s about 6 kWh to rifine one gallon, who knows what for mining and transport.
What’s fun about that number is that those 6 kWh would drive an EV about 18 miles. So, unless you have a reasonably efficient gas car, even if you never burned any of the gas you buy, and used it to fill swimming pools or something, you only come out even with an EV.
- fho 3y ago> Since you’ve priced in the entire lifecycle of every watt of electricity I didn't. That's the number without externalized CO2 costs. With those it's closer to 0.48 kg/kWh which comes out at 10kg CO2 per 100km. As I said above, I am not trying to argue against EVs. It's mostly that the German energy mix sucks. (We switched of all our nuclear plants some time ago and now rely on coal again ...) source: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/co2-emissionen-pro-kilowattstunde-strom-steigen https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/co2-emissionen-pro-kil...