Leawood911:
CGX car nut:
watt:
Other externalities are missing from this cartoon: The miserable deaths and injuries of third world and Chinese children miners in holes mining exotic minerals for teslas, solar panels and wind towers for one, and the huge toxic waste problem as recycling is impossible with composites.
Tesla, powered by the child labor from the Democratic Republic of Congo and before the resident Tesla fanboi goes ballistic, regardless of what Musk May say, there is no discernible way to determine the origins of that cobalt metal in the supply chain. Since Congo mines over 70% of the worlds cobalt supply annual, this material remains a large part of the Tesla supply chain.
https://electrek.co/2022/04/22/tesla-using-cobalt-free-lfp-batteries-in-half-new-cars-produced/
unless you don’t use cobalt at all. How many others are going this direction? Hmmm. and "personally I blame the government of Congo. How about you? "
No I blame the "civilised" brainwashed who buy into solar/wind/electric cars. The market is the problem, and the civilised also then offshore the deaths and pollution. It's a suite of exotics like lithium, tungsten, cobalt, tantalum, indium, and gallium- not just the cobalt example above, nor is it just the Congo. I spent my first career as a hard rock [mining] exploration geologist, and my worst memories are of coming to develop a project in Morocco, PNG, etc., and seeing the crushed feet mining in sandels, the deaths from toxicity and cave-ins until we established proper procedures, management, safety and training.
If you want to think for your self, data and analysis is readily available, e.g.:
https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/dirty-rare-metals-digging-deeper-into-the-energy-transition/
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/is-it-ethical-to-purchase-a-lithium-battery-powered-ev
You can also learn what amazingly efficient and clean resources hydrocarbons are - as car enthusiasts we all know this intuitively. You might even find out what an incredible waste of resources wind/solar is as they are unreliable and inefficient - you might even find out FRG has a complete power grid backup system to power the nation, when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine, and you might even notice massive grid failures and skyrocketing power costs in Australia, California.... coming to your house soon.
My local power company has gone woke, pressured by the elite funded eco-terrorists, and is shutting clean scrubbed coal, and hydro for wind/solar -- when these don 't produce in the winter, in the Rockies the customers will freeze to death, the height of corporate negligence.
Just like Germany, we have our own energy systems: 4 wood stoves and 48Kw natural gas Gen:
And we all see the food system collapsing so let's add some White Parks, and 500 fruit and nut trees and berry bushes.