Essexyellows
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Sorry but if anyone thinks electric vehicles are the answer they are officially bonkers.
If we replace all of the UK vehicle fleet with EVs, and assuming they use the most resource-frugal next-generation batteries, we would need the following materials:
• 207,900 tonnes of cobalt – just under twice the annual global production;
• 264,600 tonnes of lithium carbonate – three quarters of the world’s production;
• at least 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium nearly the entire world production of neodymium;
• 2,362,500 tonnes of copper – more than half the world’s production in 2018.
And this is just for the UK. It is estimated that the manufacturing capacity for EV batteries would have to increase more than 500-fold if we want the whole world to be transported by electric vehicles. The vast increases in the supply of the materials described above would go far beyond known reserves.
Source: https://www.thegwpf.org/new-paper-decarbonisation-plans-fail-engineering-reality-check/
Lets use "good energy" like wind.......................
When the turbines reach the end of their life of 20 years they need replacing, but the blades are so tough and resilient we can`t get rid of them so they are burying them in Iowa...
Planting 30,000 hectares of tree`s every year? So take up UK farming land and displace the problem to South America and keep importing cheap food while the Amazon is cleared?
Princess Nut Nut has certainly influenced that one...
If we replace all of the UK vehicle fleet with EVs, and assuming they use the most resource-frugal next-generation batteries, we would need the following materials:
• 207,900 tonnes of cobalt – just under twice the annual global production;
• 264,600 tonnes of lithium carbonate – three quarters of the world’s production;
• at least 7,200 tonnes of neodymium and dysprosium nearly the entire world production of neodymium;
• 2,362,500 tonnes of copper – more than half the world’s production in 2018.
And this is just for the UK. It is estimated that the manufacturing capacity for EV batteries would have to increase more than 500-fold if we want the whole world to be transported by electric vehicles. The vast increases in the supply of the materials described above would go far beyond known reserves.
Source: https://www.thegwpf.org/new-paper-decarbonisation-plans-fail-engineering-reality-check/
Lets use "good energy" like wind.......................
When the turbines reach the end of their life of 20 years they need replacing, but the blades are so tough and resilient we can`t get rid of them so they are burying them in Iowa...
Planting 30,000 hectares of tree`s every year? So take up UK farming land and displace the problem to South America and keep importing cheap food while the Amazon is cleared?
Princess Nut Nut has certainly influenced that one...