Arm-chair environmentalism is about reducing your individual energy use, using every bit of high efficiency technology you can buy. That is not eco-friendly. Its super resource intensive. Making EV batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, hydro dams, we can't make electricity without causing problems with pollution in the biosphere.
We cannot solve problems created by technology by throwing more technology at the problems. That just creates more different kinds of problems, the way that war also does not solve problems, but kills a lot of people, costs a lot, and causes a lot of damage & harm to nature, the economy & other people. All so a small minority of people can execute political power over other people in other countries. Thats warped & sick.
There is a popular YouTube Channel called Undecided with Matt & he makes content showing the extreme premium efficiency obtained by throwing a lot of technology that's expensive into a solar smart home with whole home automation.
Expense reflective at this scale of resource intensity or negative impacts of buying all that stuff needlessly. The upgrade lifestyle culture toxic to the biosphere & the reason that so many sickos care more about money than themselves, other people or nature. They literally worship money like a superficial idolator who God will condemn to hell for eternal damnation.
Today 85% of the energy that power the world non-renewable~
The VW XL1 diesel hybrid showed that a Mazda Miata sized car can be made to get over 200 MPG. They are not known to be quiet or comfortable & VW only made 250 of these XL1 that all pre-sold to wealthy German people before it even went into limited production.
Audi A2 showed off aluminum castings to make a fuel-efficient passenger car that gets nearly 50 MPG or 4.5L/100km, but Audi lost nearly $7 grand on each A2 sold, so they scrapped that project, well Bernd did when he took charge.
Coal is cheap, no two ways about it. A giant train car full of coal less than $100
The same amount of gasoline or diesel costs 10X more
Nuclear Fission Plants have a 9000% ROI after 25 years, so private investment avoids it, but the NERI or net energy return on investment into gigawatt scale reactors unmatched for stationary grid power production.
Some wind power installations claim $0.02 cents per kWh while cheap dirty coal rings out $0.03.4 cents per kWh. Solar PV varies in cost by many factors, but given that bright sky only available for an hour of so during dark multi-day winter storms, an all Solar PV home has to have 10X more solar PV panels & a robust large capacity whole home battery + backup generator to actually not lose electrical power to run the appliances.
Automakers know how to build cars to last 3 million miles or 50 year, but they dont make them that way on purpose because the resulting long life car would cost 40-60% more upfront & most people are not willing to pay that much more for long term reliability. Only Toyota prides themselves on selling people reliable cars. So, what is wrong with all the other automakers? It's hard to make a profitable automaker, since vehicles are complex energy & materially intensive products to make, so the entire supply chain for automaker global in nature & total vertical integration nearly impossible. So many automakers are actually system integrators who design a vehicle where the parts are made by other companies all around the world. Tesla BEV maker in California was the first US automaker success in more than 90 years.
That gave Tesla a lot of brand cache. Some snobbery mixed in with the upmarket buyers of Tesla to produce a cultural EV trend, saying that "Battery electric vehicles can be as good as ICE fossil fueled internal combustion engine vehicles" / and Tesla sells some Performance EV's with dual motors that accelerate to 60 MPH in under 3 seconds, like a hyper car or supercar.
It's the 300 mi magic range & 100kWh battery that becomes the capacity fade nightmare without government tax incentives to compete in the cold bitter business world of the global marketplace. There is no free lunch in physics & its is not easy or cheap to make a complicate product like a Tesla Model Y or Toyota Rav4 Prime.
I used a PHEV & BEV as examples, both SUV models because those are popular. I like personally smaller cars like the Prius & Corolla or Mazda Miata & wish I could wear a battery electric helicopter backpack to hop around like a tech zealot since I am. This wish was translated into the $6K consumption of a Yamaha MT-03, and Honda PCX-150 before that. We still have both & ride them in the summer or warmer months.
Honda started making motorcycles by adapting 500cc generator motors that were originally for WWII Philips radios, onto bicycle frames in a 12 square meter shack with 12 men. Today Honda is the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer, with more than 100 million Super-Cubs sold worldwide. If the Corolla Hybrid at 2850 lbs or 1296kg can achieve 77 MPG with light hypermiling, then motorcycles with similar performance should get 3X better fuel economy.
Our 2-2013 Honda PXC scooter has a 153cc liquid cooled fuel injected single engine & gets 89-105 MPG while cruising between 20-50 MPH. The 1.1 gallon fuel tank results in only about 100 miles of range. This is a good example of how power scaling vs thermal efficiency & capital cost are nonlinear integrations mathematically. Said another way, there is a point in capital cost where premium efficiency becomes plausible such that a large machine has better energy economy than a smaller cheaper lighter machine.
This means that CAE needed to compare multi-variable engineering problems, further delimiting who actually understands vehicle energy economy, other than to just compare MPG between models, to think about vehicle purchasing budget, operating costs to fuel weekly or monthly, costs to insure, maintenance, and depreciation. Thats a lot to consider without doing advanced research on computers.
Then again, the internet allows people to do product research so anyone who puts forth a decent amount of effort to searching can find answers that result in their understanding that Toyota the best automaker because they have a legendary history of selling people all around the world cars that keep going & going, reliable personal automobiles.
Most countries have terrible public transportation, especially American cities. In America you have to have a car to function in most locals. Meg & I believe that all cities should have much better public transportation like Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York or Paris. I believe the talking heads in politics only care about money, say one thing and do another, mostly to appease those who bribed them into office by helping to pay for the election campaign that allowed the corrupted individuals to obtain public offices.
This is why lobbying a betrayal of public interest, violate the trust of the people, cheating the constituency with lies & misinformation to confuse & misdirect people, but also because of the corruption that gets large companies like Amazon political representation while normal working people like Dr. O or Meg or I are basically left to our own to figure out how to make a nice life or nice living.
There are warped sickos in governments who actually order war without cause. There are warped sickos in high places that traffic children they abuse for entertainment. There are warped criminals who have no sense of moral or ethical personal accountability. All these public shootings are evidence of societal decay, and no electric vehicle is going to solve these problems. I am particularly skeptical of BEV's because many world governments seem so keen to promote them.
In Washington State owning an EV means you annual vehicle tabs go from under $200 per year to over $650, thus the state claims its because of lost gasoline sales taxes, but that's the same amount of fuel taxes as an F150 getting 14MPG driven 15,000 miles. Clearly the EV taxes that WA State enacts, not reflective of the budget reality of people who buy a used Nissan LEAF as a cheap commuter car.
I think a lot of rich people are out of touch with the hard reality of currency inflation that makes life more expensive & harder for people at the bottom. "Let them eat cake" said that arrogant queen of France. So selfish people living opulent lives have a history of being sociopathic or narcissistic or self centered or uncaring, cold & inhospitable. I personally know so really nice wealthy people. There are warped sickos who are broke too.
We can find bad people in all levels of society. Remember the governments are just made of the people, well technically the people in government started out as part of the general public. But many US Senators believe they are beyond justice, like Hillary Clinton who had classified pentagon information in private home server. What kind of person has a file sever at home with classified pentagon information on it? If you or I were caught doing that, we would be charged with sedition & treason & executed by the state as an enemy of the state.
We see in this example that life was not fair & not fair now & probably never will be fair for everyone, sadly. Fortunately, God see's everything & no one will escape his justice. There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed as each person stands before God so their soul can be judged fairly according to his unwavering unchanging sublime beautiful honorable amazing nature. Praise be to God forever & always. Amen.
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