3 more inconvenient facts about electric cars

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://dailyangle.com/articles/3-more-inconvenient-facts-about-electric-
cars

Politicians praise electric cars. If everyone buys them, they say, solar
and wind power will replace our need for oil.

But that's absurd.

Here is the rest of my list of "inconvenient facts" about electric cars.

"The future of the auto industry is electric," says President Joe Biden.
He assumes a vast improvement in batteries. Better batteries are crucial
because both power plants and cars need to store lots of electric power.

But here's inconvenient fact 3: Batteries are lousy at storing large
amounts of energy.

"Batteries leak, and they don't hold a lot," says physicist Mark Mills.

Mills thinks electric cars are great but explains that "oil begins with a
huge advantage: 5,000% more energy in it per pound. Electric car batteries
weigh 1,000 pounds. Those 1,000 pounds replace just 80 pounds of
gasoline."

But future batteries will be better, I point out.

"Engineers are really good at making things better," Mills responds, "but
they can't make them better than the laws of physics permit."

That's inconvenient fact 4. Miracle batteries powerful enough to replace
fossil fuels are a fantasy.

"Because nature is not nice to humans," explains Mills, "we store energy
for when it's cold or really hot. People who imagine an energy transition
want to build windmills and solar panels and store all that energy in
batteries. But if you do the arithmetic, you find you'd need to build
about a hundred trillion dollars' worth of batteries to store the same
amount of energy that Europe has in storage now for this winter. It would
take the world's battery factories 400 years to manufacture that many
batteries."

Politicians don't mention that when they promise every car will be
electric. They also don't mention that the electric grid is limited.

This summer, California officials were so worried about blackouts they
asked electric vehicle owners to stop charging cars!

Yet today, few of California's cars are electric. Gov. Gavin Newsom
ordered that all new cars must be electric by 2035! Where does he think
he'll get the electricity to power them?

"Roughly speaking, you have to double your electric grid to move the
energy out of gasoline into the electric sector," says Mills. "No one is
planning to double the electric grid, so they'll be rationing."

Rationing. That means some places will simply turn off some of the power.
That's our final inconvenient fact: We just don't have enough electricity
for all electric cars.

Worse, if (as many activists and politicians propose) we try to get that
electricity from 100% renewable sources, the rationing would be deadly.

"Even if you cover the entire continent of the United States with solar
panels, you wouldn't supply half of America's electricity," Mills points
out.

Even if you added "Washington Monument-sized wind turbines spread over an
area six times greater than the state of New York, that wouldn't be
enough."

This is just math and physics. It's amazing supposedly responsible people
promote impossible fantasies.

"It's been an extraordinary accomplishment of propaganda," complains
Mills, "almost infantile ... distressing because it's so silly."

Even if people invent much better cars, wind turbines, solar panels, power
lines and batteries, explains Mills, "you're still drilling things,
digging up stuff. You're still building machines that wear out. … It's not
magical transformation."

Even worse, today politicians make us pay more for energy while forcing us
to do things that hurt the environment. Their restrictions on fossil fuels
drive people to use fuels that pollute more.

In Europe: "They're going back to burning coal! What we've done is have
our energy systems designed by bureaucrats instead of engineers,"
complains Mills. "We get worse energy, more expensive energy and higher
environmental impacts!"

I like electric cars. But I won't pretend that driving one makes me some
kind of environmental hero.

"There'll be lots more electric cars in the future," concludes Mills.
"There should be, because that'll reduce demand for oil, which is a good
thing. But when you do the math, to operate a society with 5 or 6 billion
people who are living in poverty we can't imagine, when you want to give
them a little of what we have, the energy demands are off the charts big.
We're going to need everything."

That includes fossil fuels.

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