I’ve been saying this forever. The basic problem once again is the media is made up of people who can’t do math well, and don’t understand science very well either. Or perhaps their owners are making money off govt subsidies, who knows!
"If enough solar panels are produced to meet the 2050 Paris Accords goals, the resulting waste will weigh more than twice as much as the world’s current plastic waste. An electric-car battery requires extracting and processing more than 500,000 pounds of raw materials."
"“It was kind of crushing to discover that the things I believed in weren’t real,” Mr. Gibbs told the AP. “Not only are the solar panels and wind turbines not going to save us … but (also) that there is this whole dark side of the corporate money.”"
“As Mr. Moore and Mr. Gibbs have uncovered, renewable energy proponents have been much better at making promises than keeping them.”
My favorite part of the article and a real sign of Trumps Genius is in leaving the Paris climate “Accord” is Germany. This article lays it out perfectly…
"Environmentalists point to Germany as a country that’s doing it right, with more than 35 percent of its power coming from renewable sources. The movie finds, however, that 70 percent of the power Germany counts as renewable comes from biomass — a fancy term for burning trees. Biomass releases 50 percent more carbon dioxide than coal and more than three times as much as natural gas. Ironically, Germany receives carbon credits for every tree it burns."
The life cycle of rechargeable batteries is something that has to be worked on.
One of the solutions that I read was that once aN electric car battery has expired from it’s usefulness of storing and delivering the necessary voltage for a car it could be put into a grid storage array would would extend it’s complete life cycle by decades.
Yes… they jumped to electric cars before batteries were ready because govt’s pushed it. If they were viable the market would be far ahead of govt.
Just like the pollution caused by wind and solar projects. If they really worked companies would have built factories around windy areas etc. and used the technology without govt subsidy. …
