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I feel like the only way electric cars can be truly “environment friendly” is if the carbon produced is captured at the plants.
Not sure if it’s at all possible, though.
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So first of all you can generate energy at power plants that don’t generate carbon such as solar, nuclear, hydro, wind or geothermal.
Second gas power plants plus energy transmission to an electric car is still more energy efficient than burning the gas in a car
Third even if it was exactly equal generating the emissions at a power plant is better than generating those emissions in densely populated areas so people don’t breathe them in
Fourth there is more to pollution than just CO2 and generating power at a power plant makes it easier to scrub off things like SOx, NOx and fine particulate matter.
Fifth is the unfortunate one which is carbon capture takes energy to do so while it is possible to do it takes energy to do and the point of burning carbon is to generate energy so if you turn methane into CO2 and water the energy to turn it back into methane will take at least as much energy as you got in a perfect world but in reality will take even more energy
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