My bad, fren. The memory isn't what it once was. It's not 50,000 lbs...it's 500,000 lbs!
"Replacing hydrocarbons with green machines under current plans—never mind aspirations for far greater expansion—will vastly increase the mining of various critical minerals around the world. For example, a single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Averaged over a battery’s life, each mile of driving an electric car “consumes” five pounds of earth. Using an internal combustion engine consumes about 0.2 pounds of liquids per mile."
Also read somewhere I’ll have to try to remember that if we strip mine all the reserves for lithium it would only amount to maybe 20years worth vs hundreds of reserves left for oil gas and coil.
So yeah really not green at all.
Do you have source for the dirt topic to produce a battery?
My bad, fren. The memory isn't what it once was. It's not 50,000 lbs...it's 500,000 lbs!
"Replacing hydrocarbons with green machines under current plans—never mind aspirations for far greater expansion—will vastly increase the mining of various critical minerals around the world. For example, a single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Averaged over a battery’s life, each mile of driving an electric car “consumes” five pounds of earth. Using an internal combustion engine consumes about 0.2 pounds of liquids per mile."
https://www.manhattan-institute.org/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-reality-check
Your all good. Just needed a source so I don't spread misinformation lol....
Also read somewhere I’ll have to try to remember that if we strip mine all the reserves for lithium it would only amount to maybe 20years worth vs hundreds of reserves left for oil gas and coil. So yeah really not green at all.