Electric Cars . . . Burn 31% More Energy Than Gas Cars ZERO EMISSIONS . . . Where you drive the Car How is Electricity Made . . .? How is Electricity Transmitted and Stored . . .? What is the ‘Life Cycle of Electricity’ – Production to User? The Planet Suffers Every Time We Use Electricity Adamant Naturalist Jim Le Maistre Copyright 2021 Let’s Examine the Scientific Facts . . . Why supress the Science proving the Myths and False Propaganda surrounding Electricity and Electric Cars? Does good Science somehow hurt the Environmental Movement? Does the Science exposing the High Environmental Cost from Producing, Transmitting and Storing Electricity hurt anyone? Why is there such a reluctance to publish these Scientific Facts? Does exposing the High Environmental Cost of Producing, Transmitting and Storing Electricity for Electric Cars hurt anyone? Knowledge is an essential part of making Informed Decisions. False Data and Misleading Information is wrapped up in the ‘Propaganda’ promoting Electric Cars and the ‘Emissions Free’ Myth. Simple math and Scientific facts dispute this propaganda - It is NOT Climate-Denial or Anti-Environmentalism. It is simple Science that everybody should know. Hidden Facts surrounding Electricity and the ‘Embodied Energy’ contained must be revealed. Wishful thinking about cleaning up the Air we Breathe is a Very Good plan. However, we are Falsely being led to believe in the ‘Zero Emissions’ Deception about Electric Cars. We never about hear about the Science pointing to the Environmental Damage caused when we Produce, Transmit and Store Electricity. “The Embodied Energy” that leads to Environmental Destruction all over the World. It remains unspoken . . . it is Very, Very Real. Where does electricity come from? Sources of Electricity - International Energy Agency – 2019 66% of all Electricity Produced comes from Burning Fossil Fuels. 79% is Non-Renewable (fossil fuels + nuclear). Electricity is presented as having ‘Zero Emissions’. Where the Electricity is Consumed indeed, it has no emissions, but that Electricity was Generated Somewhere. It ALL has an Environmental Impact. The result is more Environmental Impact, not less. Cities may have cleaner air, but the Planet gets more polluted. All energy production machines are about 35% efficient, including Cars, Trucks and Power Generating Stations – Even Bio-Fuels, Physics 101. “The efficiency of power plants like nuclear, coal-fired or natural gas turbines. These technologies are based on a thermodynamic cycle, that efficiency is in the order of 35%. This means that the combustion of coal, for example, will produce heat, which will be converted into mechanical energy and then into electricity". https://blog.se.com/energy-management-energy-efficiency/2013/03/25/how-big-are-power-line-losses/ Where Does Electricity Come From? An Overview . . . Coal Power Plant Nuclear Power Plant Natural Gas Power Plant Diesel Power Plant 79 % of Global Electricity Comes from these sources Wind Power Solar Power Bio-Fuel Plant Bio-Fuel Power Plant 4 % of Global Electricity Comes from ‘Renewable’ sources 17 % of Global Energy Comes from Hydro Dams 15 % of the Electricity Produced is Heat Loss in Transmission DC Power Grid Transformers Convert fom DC to AC When Electricity is Lost, where does it go? OHM’S Law . . . Heat . . . Electrons moving back and forth crash into each other, and those Collisions warm up power lines and the air around them. More Heat Loss again at Transformer Stations converting DC to AC in our Neighborhoods. “15 % is lost during Transmission and from Transformers”. https://blog.se.com/energy-management-energy-efficiency/2013/03/25/how-big-are-power-linelosses/ Another 16 % Is Heat Loss Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Cars Green Car Reports – Why it takes more Energy than your Battery holds The real reason for the discrepancy is that you lose some energy to Heat to the onboard charging. According to Kia, for instance, it’s typical for the onboard charger to lose 14 percent or more of the energy input on the way to charging the cells in the battery pack. Factor in charger inaccuracies (Kia notes that 3 to 5 percent isn’t unusual) and you could end up ‘officially’ putting in well over 15 percent more energy than the battery’s capacity while restoring the charge to 100 percent. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098248_charging-an-electric-car-why-it-takes-more-energy-than-your-battery-holds Green car congress 05 September 2018 Unlike conventionally fueled vehicles, electric vehicles experience a loss of energy during “refueling,” with an energy loss of about 16% from the wall power to the battery during charging. https://www.greencarcongress.com/2018/09/20180905fotw.html#:~:text=Unlike%20conventionally%20fueled%20vehicles%2C%20 electric,to%20the%20battery%20during%20charging. 31 % is Lost getting Electricity from Power Plant to Electric Motor Let’s Calculate Total Input Factors for Electricity Starting at Production All Power Plants use a Thermodynamic Cycle - The Efficiencies are about of 35% Coal, Diesel, Nuclear, Natural Gas and Bio Fuel Combined . . . That is 81% of all Electricity 31 % of that is Heat Loss During Transmission and Charging 35% x 31% = 10.85 % 35 % - 10.85% = 24.15% of What Was Produced Goes to the Wheels of Electric Motor Gas Powered Vehicles after Burning fuels have 35 % going to the Wheels 31 % is Heat loss during Transmission and Charging Therefore . . . Electric Vehicles burn 31 % more Energy per Kilometer Driven The EPA tracks U.S. GHG’s by publishing the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Total GHG Emissions in 2018 = 6,677 Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent. 27% of Green House Gases are released Producing Electricity Will producing MORE GHG’s for Electric Cars save the Environment?? . . . NO! The following literature does Not mention the 65% loss Generating the Electricity or - The 15% line-loss from the Generating Station to the Charger or the 16% Wasted Charging the Battery People are so confused about Electric Cars . . . Below, Even the Energy Loss Charging the Battery is off by 9% . . . - That is 60% False! - Where the Energy Goes: Electric Cars https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv-ev.shtml Electric vehicles (EVs) are more efficient than their gasoline-powered counterparts. An EV electric drive system is only responsible for a 15% to 20% energy loss compared to 64% to 75% for a gasoline engine. EVs also use regenerative braking to recapture and reuse energy that normally would be lost in braking and waste no energy idling. See All-Electric Vehicles for details. EVs are 60% to 73% efficient, depending upon drive cycle. However, if the energy recaptured from regenerative braking is counted (i.e., recounted when it is re-used), EVs are 77% to 100% efficient. (For more information on how vehicle efficiency is calculated, see Vehicle Fuel Efficiency.) False, Poorly Researched, Manipulative, Promotional Propaganda . . .! This Research Assumes, Electricity Supplied has ZERO Emissions during Production False! Total Nonsense! Purely - Creative Writing and Deception . . . This is the Source for the Electricity in the Document Above ! How Does That Document Get Electric Power to the Charger – 0 input cost ? *************************** Below - A Diesel-Powered Generating Station - for Electric Cars Representing all Electrical Sources - Diesel, Nuclear, Coal or Hydro Evidence of How Electric Production Actually Works !! Renewable Energy . . . 79% of Global Electricity is Non-Renewable. 17% from hydro. 4% from Wind, Solar and Renewables combined. Clean, Green Electricity is said to be - Emissions Free . . . Not by a long shot! . . . 40% of building a Hydro Dam is spent Burning Fossil Fuels. Running Diesel Machinery, Moving Earth, Making Steel, Producing Concrete, and Building Turbines for those Dams. More again on Steel for Transmission Towers and more for Aluminum Transmission Lines. “Concrete and Steel Together, account for 14.7% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/climate-and-carbon/getting-carbon-concrete-steel-15869448/ Remember, Environmental Destruction is caused building these Dams and running Transmission Lines through Natural Habitats to where we all live and work. We must remember that 10,000 Caribou perished in Quebec because the James Bay Hydro Project that flooded Migration Routes for the Largest Migrating Heard of Caribou in North America. This is not clean energy! Where is the outrage? This can not be swept under the rug! All Energy Production has a Toxic Environmental Cost! New York Times, Montreal Gazette, CBC TV – 1984 Renewables . . .One Wind Turbine contains 800 lbs. of Neo-Dymium Boron. More Radiation is released making these Rare-Earth Magnets in Mongolia, where 80% of Global demand is produced, than all the nuclear reactors in the USA combined, every year. As one environmentalist told the Daily Mail, “There is not one step of the rare earth mining process that is not disastrous for the environment.” Clean Energy - “Wood is currently the largest contributor to this renewable energy target, accounting for as much as 45 percent of all renewable energy consumed”. https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/12/insider-why-burning-trees-energy-harms-climate#:~:text We cut down Forests and Burn the Wood as ‘Biomass’ in North America and Europe. We call it ‘Renewable Energy’ – Why? Trees are the #1 contributor to removing CO2 from the Air we Breath! Those forests take more than 100 years to regrow. Who decided that this was ‘Environmentally Friendly’? Why? Wind Turbines are described as ‘Clean & Green Technology and Renewable’. That is not even remotely true! The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Banned the Radioactive Waste from producing ‘Rare Earth Magnets’ contained in those Turbines. They were invented in the USA by General Dynamics, more than 35 years ago. Neo-Dymium Boron Magnets are also what Drive the Engines in those ‘Emissions free’ Electric Cars. Will Electric Cars End Pollution? NO! Sadly, Pollution is just moved out of site and out of mind to places off in the wilderness, unseen and un-spoken. Again, we need to learn the Science first. All Pollution must be Eradicated . . . not just CO2 Radioactive Tailings Pond Mongolia, China – Rare Earth Magnets for Cars and Wind Turbines BBC - Big Wind's Dirty Little Secret - Toxic Lakes, 2013 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth 800 LBS of Neodymium Boron in one (1) wind turbine . . . When Electricity is Lost, where does it go? OHM’S Law . . . Heat . . . Electrons moving back and forth crash into each other, and those collisions warm up power lines and the air around them. More heat loss again at Power Stations converting DC to AC and then again, more heat loss at Transformers in your neighborhood. “15% is Heat Loss during Transmission and from Transformers”. https://blog.se.com/energy-management-energyefficiency/2013/03/25/how-big-are-power-line-losses/ The biggest loss of Electricity in any one place comes from Charging Lithium Batteries. Exciting the electrons inside your battery releases Heat. 100 kilowatts of Electricity Stored in a Lithium battery takes 116 kilowatts. 16 % of that Electricity is lost as Heat . . . https://www.greencarcongress.com/2018/09/20180905-fotw.html https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098248_charging-an-electric-car-why-it-takes-more-energy-than-your-battery-holds Transmission Losses plus the Charging Losses lead to 31 % of the Electricity Produced is being wasted as Heat. 35% x 31% = 10.85 % loss from Transmission and Storage. 35% - 10.85% = 24.15% gets to turn the wheels. Electric Cars Burn 75.85 % of Energy Potential, Heating and Polluting the Planet . . . 65 % for Gas Cars . . . Look at Three (3) machines with Electric Engines and see how they compare Diesel generator on board 100 % of energy produced Gets to engine Diesel generator on board 100 % of energy produced Gets to engine Coal - Hydro – Nuclear – Wind - Electricity 69 %of energy produced gets to engine 31 % is lost HEATING the planet Why is this knowledge not broadly known? Who keeps this from reaching the public? Why are we not told? Who gains from this misinformation? The Media and Governments must step up and Dispel the Illusions and False information disseminated by Propagandists, Profiteers and Self-Interested Advocacy Groups Who Promote Electric Cars. Why do governments give rebates for buying Electric Cars? Electric cars burn 31 % more energy Globally, for every kilometer driven compared to Gasoline or Diesel Vehicles. Not a reduction in energy consumption! Not Emissions Free! Not some Panacea to save the World from Pollution! Just another trick to fool the Mases into believing in ‘Energy Free Magic’. Technology and Charging Efficiencies have improved enough to make competition possible for Electric Car Makers . . . Electricity remains Highly Inefficient as an Energy Source for Cars . . . Some day when we can produce Electricity 'On-Board' from a New Source of Energy, things may change. Until then, Electric Cars are little more than a game of ‘Sleight of Hand’ delivered by Magicians bent on selling a dream to Believers in the myth of energy conservation. This is falsely implied for drivers of Electric Cars! Some Scientific facts will never change. OHM’S LAW – Resistance = Heat . . . Even the US Department of Energy missed the ‘Where Electricity Comes From’ fundamentals . . . Truth . . . All Electricity is Poison for the Environment, in Some Way!! Electric Cars add 31% more Heat & Pollution to the Planet for every KM driven HEAT, OHMS LAW Adamant Naturalist Jim Le Maistre Aldergrove, BC Copyright 2021