Chevy, Ford... going into electric trucks.
We're living in exciting times. Ford intend to have cargo space infront in place of the engines. And think of roomy interior and high ground clearance without those gear boxes and power train wi...
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Turtle n Peeps wrote:Yosemite Sam1 wrote:
Seriously, photovoltaic and EV batteries caused all of these?
It's just been here less than a decade.
What would blame them next, wind-mill causing cancer?
Here, let me type slower. Try to follow along.
*You need copper (and many other rare earth minerals) to make things "go" on electricity. Motors take A LOT of copper. So do transmission lines to bring the electricity to the consumer. So do generators that make the electricity.
*Those minerals come out of the ground.
*When you make a pit mine to get these minerals it causes LOTS of Toxic waste.
* This waste is very, very toxic.
* A lot of the super fund sites in the US are mines that mine for rare earth minerals.
* We will need a lot more of these mines to get more and more copper out of the ground for electric cars and transmission lines.
I won't even go into the problems Lithium mining causes. That is a whole other kettle of fish. And it's rotting fish at that. In some ways worse that mining for copper.
Do you get it now YS? If not I might try to explain it more to you when I have time. :R
BTW, there is no "Tesla Semi" and never will be. Tesla is being sued into red ink as I type this.
Any bets whether Tesla is going to make money this Qt? I'm game if you are. Remember, Tusk said "going forward.........." :B
And carbon-based energy does not need that much copper or a lot more steel building the plants and those miles and miles of cables for their grid?
