How dare I compare my Diesel powered Peugeot to Greta’s Tesla?
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Does the computer you use to post this run on diesel too? Your phone?
The problem with batteries is that they are not a source of energy. You still need energy to generate the electricity to put in them. You could used Diesel for that or, more likely, you could use gas.
Spot the natural gas production going on here. No, not the giant wind turbines but the smaller towers in between.
Diesel isn’t the “source” of energy either. Much like a battery, all hydrocarbon products are simply the storage medium for the source energy—the environmental hydrogen and carbon sequestered in the soil millions of years ago.
The very real, very physical and obvious problem, devoid of politics, is that millions of years worth of carbon safely sequestered underground has been re-released into the atmosphere in just 150 years since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Enjoy your 100 degree days. This is the new reality. Even God’s own sunshine and wind stored in a battery is not going to save mankind now. We fucked up.
The earth will be fine, and mining scars like that alleged lithium mine in the illustration will heal over the next millions of years. Humans will be replaced by something else.
Environmentalists want to save humanity. The earth always has and always will take care of itself. It’s humans that are fucked.
OK, if you view fossil fuels as batteries then we are already using renewable energy.
CO2 levels used to be 7,000ppm they are now just over 400ppm. We have a lot of catching up to do.
I narly forgot, NASA says we have recently used our "extra" CO2 to green an area equal to twice that of the continental USA. Sounds like an environmental win to me.
Carbon dioxide is FOOD for all plants which generate oxygen for you to breath. How is that a dangerous toxin, again? You are literally advocating killing yourself by actively reducing breathable oxygen without even knowing it.
6CO2 + 6H20 + (energy) → C6H12O6 + 6O2 Carbon dioxide + water + energy from light produces glucose and oxygen.
https://sciencing.com/photosynthesis-equation-6962557.html
Note the proportional drop in Oxygen for EACH reduction in CO2. It is directly proportional 1:1.
Also note that plants increase their absorption of carbon dioxide when it increases. This is why it is pumped into greenhouses to the extent that humans working inside have to wear breathing gear.
Nobody said CO2 is a toxin. It traps heat in the atmosphere. Hence, the rising temperatures.
More plants would be great, but what we actually do is wipe out large areas of the Amazonian basin for strip mining.
So, less plants every day. Your source is called “Sciencing”? Adorable.
"Smart" guy dosent know how oil is made
Indirectly. One could argue, yes. Electricity generation for households in the US is still over ~80% diesel, fuel oil, coal, natural gas from what I recall. And distributed rather than centralized is more efficient as the amount of power needed to "boost" the lines for transmission from one giant centralized plant is reduced.
For nuclear the "boost" is considered net worthwhile over a certain geographic radius due to the inherently low cost of nuclear power production.
Microhydro at the community or even household level is possible as power storage or limited runtime power, but you still need some energy source to pump the water up and some energy is lost in the turbine. Solar and wind used to pump water up is one way to optimize those technologies where they work best which is relatively low cost battery charge or water pumping (which is also really energy storage).