12-17-2017, 06:13 AM
I read the relevant parts of the paper........the industry in it's current state has not sufficient statistics to form a real conclusion on current or future types of batteries......interesting though!
But it's based as always, on coal burning!
Is anybody doing the count for coal mining and oil drilling, extraction and the tanker transportation, the refining and then the redistribution by road to our gas stations? Of course this should include the building of the platforms and machinery, the building of the huge tankers, not to mention the oil burnt and CO2 produced to move it all.
Not to mention the lives lost in mining or other disasters!
Add to that a typical car over it's life cycle of say, 200,000 Kms will need to burn 14,000 liters of fuel to get it there and all the CO2 produced!
Then throw in the pollution from oil spillages the risks of collision and groundings etc. and you have a rather ugly picture.
The resulting CO2 emissions from car production are of course reflected in the overall CF of the electric car......and makes their case considerably less attractive.
What we have at the moment is a situation where producing an electric vehicle is, "pre-burdened", by a significant CF....... take out fossil fuel burning.....and there's a massive turn round in the figures........it can then do what it does best........driving down the road cleanly!
If every time mankind needs to produce a planet friendly invention eg. the electric car (or whatever).........and we have to shovel ten tons tons of coal on the fire to do it............seriously, what chance have we got?
CF...carbon footprint.
But it's based as always, on coal burning!
Is anybody doing the count for coal mining and oil drilling, extraction and the tanker transportation, the refining and then the redistribution by road to our gas stations? Of course this should include the building of the platforms and machinery, the building of the huge tankers, not to mention the oil burnt and CO2 produced to move it all.
Not to mention the lives lost in mining or other disasters!
Add to that a typical car over it's life cycle of say, 200,000 Kms will need to burn 14,000 liters of fuel to get it there and all the CO2 produced!
Then throw in the pollution from oil spillages the risks of collision and groundings etc. and you have a rather ugly picture.
The resulting CO2 emissions from car production are of course reflected in the overall CF of the electric car......and makes their case considerably less attractive.
What we have at the moment is a situation where producing an electric vehicle is, "pre-burdened", by a significant CF....... take out fossil fuel burning.....and there's a massive turn round in the figures........it can then do what it does best........driving down the road cleanly!
If every time mankind needs to produce a planet friendly invention eg. the electric car (or whatever).........and we have to shovel ten tons tons of coal on the fire to do it............seriously, what chance have we got?
CF...carbon footprint.