tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3924038574882321042..comments2024-03-29T12:03:37.344+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Don't be silly; electric cars aren't supposed to *work*Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-5204772847571225372021-06-05T06:35:54.418+01:002021-06-05T06:35:54.418+01:00@Wm - There are - to put it mildly - many non-obvi...@Wm - There are - to put it mildly - many non-obvious costs in terms of replacing one technology with another (more highly engineered). Most people (including most intellectuals) cannot think more than one step - so how to generate the electricity doesn't matter. Those who do think ahead will assume it will come from wind and sun (i.e. more conjectural high tech stuff that doesn't actually work). Basically, lots of expensive new things - none of which work - will operate together to solve the problem... Yeah. <br /><br />As I like to say - green technologies are all very effective and efficient at generating... subsidies. As those incredibly expensive and highly engineered wind turbines stand motionless and vile across our most beautiful vistas, we should be thinking of all the valuable subsidy they are generating. <br /><br />William - I tried to show, by my comparison with the more-sincere voluntary simplicity/ self-sufficiency ideas of the seventies - that the modern ideas of 'carbon environmentalism' are intrinsically corrupt and totalitarian, from the beginning (e.g. the sudden switch, around 1990, from Methane to CO2 as the supposed demon gas for global warming, because with CO2 as The problem all living thing 'needed' to be controlled).<br /><br />Anything based-upon Evil Lies will be evil by deep motivation. <br /><br /><br />@B - No, I don't know about it. <br /><br />Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-47407616872044412232021-06-05T03:17:01.255+01:002021-06-05T03:17:01.255+01:00I find that a LOT of people naively assume that el...I find that a LOT of people naively assume that electric cars "don't pollute," but of course the electricity for them comes from power plants. "Clean" energy sources like solar and wind obviously can't provide enough power for millions of cars, so that means coal, oil, or nuclear.<br /><br />I'm not sure if electric cars would pollute less or more than conventional ones. On the one hand, using power plants rather than internal combustion engines probably allows for economies of scale and thus greater efficiency. On the other hand, the second law of thermodynamics means that energy is wasted every time it changes form, so direct (combustion powers engine) is better than indirect (combustion powers generator that charges battery that powers engine). Aside from the question of the sheer quantity of pollution produced, there's also the fact that power plants can be located in less populated areas, which seems preferable to releasing pollution directly onto city streets.<br /><br />And of course there's the harm caused to the environment by battery production. According to stats I've seen, electric cars currently account for 1% of cars on the road and 60% of the lithium-ion battery market, so going 100% electric would thus require a more than 6000% increase in battery production. As you say, it's obviously not even intended to work.Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-15907155320979470562021-06-05T02:12:08.407+01:002021-06-05T02:12:08.407+01:00i'm in agreement with you. Slighty off topic, ...i'm in agreement with you. Slighty off topic, have you read about Olduvai Theory? If so, do you have an opinion on it?Boethiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14023469709972017687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-66193317241964144592021-06-04T22:45:54.048+01:002021-06-04T22:45:54.048+01:00Mr Andrew makes a very good point. A lot of these ...Mr Andrew makes a very good point. A lot of these proposed developments start off by appearing as positive moves to decrease pollution and restore the balance with nature or whatever. But either they are captured and corrupted or they always were means to smuggle in greater control. It is, as he says, the spiritual dimension that we should be looking at and this is not what at first it might seem. William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-1670435157662339032021-06-04T20:30:44.228+01:002021-06-04T20:30:44.228+01:00I was for the development several years ago (quiet...I was for the development several years ago (quieter, less stinky roads sound nice), it is only when understanding the spiritual dimension that it becomes apparent why this minor temporary good is being abused for evil.<br /><br />All new electric cars are also being delivered as total-surveillance and tracking devices. Petrol cars aren't exempt, but it has been pushed much harder w/ electric under the guise of "new". Not only location tracking, but the new promoted and tied-in self-driving-technology regulation requires cameras literally monitoring and recording everything you do in the cabin with a camera.Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07815695560953002699noreply@blogger.com