{"id":511367,"date":"2022-11-17T02:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pols-who-push-electric-cars-ignore-basic-math-and-physics\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T02:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T23:43:18","slug":"pols-who-push-electric-cars-ignore-basic-math-and-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pols-who-push-electric-cars-ignore-basic-math-and-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pols who push electric cars ignore basic math and physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d1f20ca902\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d1f20ca902\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pols-who-push-electric-cars-ignore-basic-math-and-physics\/#%E2%80%9CPols_who_push_electric_cars_ignore_basic_math_and_physics%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Pols who push electric cars ignore basic math and physics&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CPols_who_push_electric_cars_ignore_basic_math_and_physics%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Pols who push electric cars ignore basic math and physics&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Politicians praise electric cars. If everyone buys them, they say, solar and wind power will replace our need for oil.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the rest of my list of \u201cinconvenient facts\u201d about electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future of the auto industry is electric,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s inconvenient Fact 3: Batteries are lousy at storing large amounts of energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBatteries leak, and they don\u2019t hold a lot,\u201d says physicist Mark Mills.<\/p>\n<p>Mills thinks electric cars are great but explains that \u201coil 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But future batteries will be better, I point out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEngineers are really good at making things better,\u201d Mills responds, \u201cbut they can\u2019t make them better than the laws of physics permit.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/biden-electric.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Politicians like Biden ignore the capability of electric car batteries when making bold claims about the vehicles.\" class=\"wp-image-24682702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/biden-electric.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/biden-electric.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/biden-electric.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Politicians like Biden ignore the capability of electric car batteries when making bold claims about the vehicles.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque\/File Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That\u2019s inconvenient Fact 4. Miracle batteries powerful enough to replace fossil fuels are a fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause nature is not nice to humans,\u201d explains Mills, \u201cwe store energy for when it\u2019s 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\u2019d need to build about a hundred trillion dollars\u2019 worth of batteries to store the same amount of energy that Europe has in storage now for this winter. It would take the world\u2019s battery factories 400 years to manufacture that many batteries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politicians don\u2019t mention that when they promise every car will be electric. They also don\u2019t mention that the electric <em>grid<\/em> is limited.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, California officials were so worried about blackouts they asked electric vehicle owners to stop charging cars!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newsom-electric.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order banning the sale of new gasoline powered cars by 2035.\" class=\"wp-image-24682706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newsom-electric.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newsom-electric.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/newsom-electric.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>California Gov. Gavin <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>om signed an executive order banning the sale of new gasoline powered cars by 2035.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by JOHN G MABANGLO\/EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet today, few of California\u2019s cars are electric.\u00a0Gov. Gavin Newsom\u00a0ordered that\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0new cars must be electric by 2035! Where does he think he\u2019ll get the electricity to power them?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoughly speaking, you have to double your electric grid to move the energy out of gasoline into the electric sector,\u201d says Mills. \u201cNo one is planning to double the electric grid, so they\u2019ll be rationing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rationing. That means some places will simply turn off some of the power. That\u2019s our final inconvenient fact: We just don\u2019t have enough electricity for all electric cars.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Worse, if (as many activists and politicians propose) we try to get that electricity from 100% renewable sources, the rationing would be deadly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you cover the entire continent of the United States with solar panels, you wouldn\u2019t supply half of America\u2019s electricity,\u201d Mills points out.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you added \u201cWashington Monument-sized wind turbines spread over an area six times greater than the state of New York, that wouldn\u2019t be enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is just math and physics. It\u2019s amazing supposedly responsible people promote impossible fantasies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been an extraordinary accomplishment of propaganda,\u201d complains Mills, \u201calmost infantile . . . distressing because it\u2019s so silly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even if people invent much better cars, wind turbines, solar panels, power lines and batteries, explains Mills, \u201cyou\u2019re still drilling things, digging up stuff. You\u2019re still building machines that wear out . . . It\u2019s not magical transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, today politicians make us pay more for energy while forcing us to do things that <em>hurt<\/em> the environment. Their restrictions on fossil fuels drive people to use fuels that pollute <em>more<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe: \u201cThey\u2019re going back to burning coal! What we\u2019ve done is have our energy systems designed by bureaucrats instead of engineers,\u201d complains Mills. \u201cWe get worse energy, more expensive energy and higher environmental impacts!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I like electric cars. But I won\u2019t pretend that driving one makes me some kind of environmental hero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019ll be lots more electric cars in the future,\u201d concludes Mills. \u201cThere should be, because that\u2019ll 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\u2019t imagine, when you want to give them a little of what we have, the energy demands are off the charts big. We\u2019re going to need <em>everything<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That includes fossil fuels.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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