Per my first comment… pretty sure driving your current vehicle into the ground is the “best” option.
My assumption is that initial carbon footprint is higher on ev. As vehicle life moves forward, we get closer to parity. When parity is reached is a multivariate dependent upon vehicle material specs and where the EV is drawing it's power (renewable vs non-renewable sources). But it would likely be several years in most cases. Quickly changing information though as technology is hauling ass.
Absolutely, well put.
Not to mention they make a house look like shit.
You think catalytic converters are popular to steal? Put $40,000 worth of panels on your roof and go camping for the weekend......
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It takes a village to greenwash. NGOs need to appear to have solutions to drive their funding needs and feed a sense of self-importance even when their demands often make zero real-world sense (and behind closed doors they often even acknowledge this fact), politicians need to claim high moral ground and drive campaign dollars so they will vote for anything their influencers will tell their base is a good thing - feasibility is meaningless to them - future problems just ensure more grandstanding opportunities, companies try to point out some of the stupidity and lack of feasibility of many NGO demands but eventually go with something performative to appease NGOs and politicians, and the average Joe - the real problem in this picture - who want to feel good about change, but don't want to be inconvenienced, pay more or use less -- they are the ones who reward the NGOs and politicians with attention and $$ and buy the companies' products in an ever-growing volume regardless of real-world effects.
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Price parity is not the biggest problem with plastic recycling - the reality is that any plausible price -- most plastics, particularly previously formed, colored, UV stabilized, labeled and used plastics, do not recycle into high quality end products.
Looks like the Square Heads had enough of the windmill and global warming hype, and don't want to freeze to death this winter.
NexGen nukes are the only viable replacement for oil - solar, winds, etc are nice niche add-ons, but for now are just an expensive exercise in avoiding this reality. We will spend trillions, while spoiling nature to get the needed raw materials for solar/wind and cover the lands with the apparatus blight, only to finally turn to nuke in 40 yrs. Would be much better to go all in right now, but the greens will not allow so long as their thread of credibility remains.You provide a link on solar to back up you optimism. Here's a link on recent oil fields and who is involved. Find a replacement source for oil and gas that is available, reliable, and economical, and we can switch to that. Till then that's what we got, if you want to travel, heat your home, and grow food for your belly.
APA-Total JV makes oil discovery off Suriname coast
APA Corp said on Tuesday its joint venture with France's TotalEnergies SE has made an oil discovery at an exploration well off the coast of Suriname.www.reuters.com
That is certain - commies will blight every landscape to prop up their failed economic theory. Never in history has a communist nation looked like an environmental leader.
So much missing from life cycle management. The more you factor in raw material issues, recycling issues, transmission loss issues, etc etc, the less favorable EVs are. The best models I have seen leave them with a slight advantage, but at that point, the slight advantage is too small to make a meaningful climate difference. If EVs are about actually helping the planet they are properly viewed as greenwashing.
