Will there not be just as much of a carbon footprint from mining materials to make batteries for all the new electric cars?
And all the precious metals that go into making electronics to make that car operate?
Plus the power generation associated with charging everyone’s vehicle.
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there are some things about generating electricity on a large scale that can be hard to understand, just because as people we have a hard time understanding things on a industrial scale.
I work in a factory that generates steam, as a heat source, and also uses some steam to reduce the electrical bill
the amount of efficiency that electric generation gains from increases in scale is over powered. majorly.
where I work we have 3 boilers that have big water tanks over them to be boiled away. the fire is fully enclosed on the top bottom and sides. and has gobs of air forced into it. the fire from the coal is so bright that you need a welding hoods to view it safely.
the steam that is boiled off goes threw a turban pushing a 2, 6 ft fans with like a millon fan blades in it. when the steam comes off the fan blades is still stupidly hot. so we send it back into water and it boils, making more steam at a lower pressure, like 1.5 lbs lower. this steam feeds 2 more turbines. rinse and repeat 4 times.
this is for a factory that’s more concerned with steam vs electricity. we use the same energy 5 times. a power plant will do this 9 times. a nuke plant even more so.
the factory I work at produces water as a waste product. its dumped into a river cleaner then the drinking water that the city produces for the people
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