LennyR
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It's easier to build transmission lines than pipelines. 33 kWh of battery is the equivalent energy of 1 gallon of gasoline (in watt hours). Lets say you have 100kWh battery and 500km of range. This would be compared to an ICE vehicle doing 500km with 11.4 litres of fuel.
If you install solar panels and use the energy you generate to charge a vehicle (displacing gasoline) that will be the quickest way to pay off your system.
Or you can do seismic to figure out where oil is located. Get permission from land owners/mineral rights. Set up a rig and drill. Build a site with holding tanks. Haul Oil with Super B to refinery. Refine the oil. Transport fuel by pipeline. Haul fuel to gas station. Drive to the gas station to fill up.
Just go go to the store and buy those batteries that will need replacing (in 8 years ?????) that just magically appear on the shelf with no impact to the environment, and when they need replacing just take them to the battery fairy and poof they're new again , again with no negative impact , if a few million of them are beyond rebuilding, We can just stack them somewhere (forever) and build more , from the huge mines that are almost 0 in their carbon footprint. Be interesting to calculate how many more mines were gonna need , like right now, if even 50 % of the ic vehicle owners decided to go electric this year. Interesting how much impact the construction of enough plug ins to satisfy all these new users, how many of the users would still have on board an ic engine to supplement ( which to me is a partial step in the plan) . And how many years till the payback actually gets anywhere close to zero, in a country or even a continent that is such a minimal contributor to emissions relative to the world.
Yeah , it would be easier , cleaner , quieter , maybe even better to use electric engines for everything , but essentially mining for components for batteries is not really a lot different than mining for oil in my mind, just a different process. And I can't help but think about my golf carts I have scattered around at different places , 2 of them are electric one is gas, and as much as I keep them well maintained, I've had substantially more issues and pita factors with the electric than the gas, that my experience anyway.
Not an expert by any means , but seems to me there's a huge hill to climb and gotta wonder if this is gonna turn out like the wind farms in Germany and so many other places. Maybe , just maybe the efforts to create cleaner more efficient ic motors is enough to get to the same impact on carbon footprint . Maybe causing a total change to electric vehicles with all thats needed to be built and modified and maintained will cause such an impact the on the environment that it'll be a thousand years to get to zero !! While the oil and NG sits and oozes out of places like the oil sands and we just pile all the rigs, equipment , tanks, trucks, ic motors , which we've worked very hard and continue to strive to be cleaner and more efficient, we can just put them on shelves somewhere to rust away for the next thousand years or so.
As I said , I realize there's a lot I don't know , but the greenies are the groovy folks lately, and they're on a mission , but seems to me we've been led down the path a few times lately with other issues, best be careful before jumping blindly into this pool .