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Originally Posted by NighthawkSTI
tank-to-wheels efficiency of the gas engine is five or six times less than that of an electric motor's battery-to-wheels efficiency. If you consider what it took to extract the petroleum from the well, transport it to a refinery in supertankers and big rigs (both of which are also burning fossil fuels), and then inefficiently burn it in internal combustion engines, then the wastefulness looks even more extreme. (And that's without calculating the geopolitical and environmental effects of that oil supply chain
Oil and gas is endless feedback loop of consumption that get pumped out a pipe into.the atmosphere and is gone forever...except for the resultant C02 molecules that take over 300 years to break down in the atmosphere.
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"The production of lithium through evaporation ponds uses a lot of water - around 21 million litres per day. Approximately 2.2 million litres of water is needed to produce one ton of lithium."
screw that water ... just poison it because i'm saving the Earf with battery cars!
01-23-2023, 05:29 PM
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