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All Electricity Poisons Planet Earth YES . . . Even Renewables . . . This is NOT How We Get Electric Power The Planet Suffers Every Time We Use Electricity As much pollution . . .Globally . . . As All the Cars, Trucks, Trains and Planes – Combined! Let’s Examine the Scientific Facts . . . Why is the science pointing to myths and false propaganda surrounding electricity and electric cars suppressed? Does the science somehow hurt the Environmental Movement? Does the science explaining the high environmental cost from producing, distributing and storing electricity hurt anyone? Why is there such a reluctance to publish the scientific facts explaining the high environmental damage caused by producing, transmitting and storing electricity and driving Electric Cars? Knowledge is essential in making informed decisions. So much false data and misleading information is wrapped up in the ‘propaganda’ promoting electric cars and the ‘Emissions Free’ myth. The simple math and scientific facts that dispute this propaganda is not climate-denial or anti-environmentalism. It is just simple science that everybody should know. Hidden truths surrounding electricity and the Embodied Energy it contains must be understood. Wishful thinking about cleaning up the air we breathe is very good. However, we have been falsely led to believe the ‘Zero Emissions’ mantra about electricity and electric cars, we never hear about the science pointing to the environmental destruction caused by producing, transmitting and storing electricity. “The Embodied energy” leading to environmental destruction remains unspoken, but it is, very, very real. Where does electricity come from? Global Sources of Electricity - International Energy Agency – 2019 66% of electricity produced comes from burning fossil fuels. 79% is non-renewable. (fossil fuels + nuclear). Using electricity is presented as having ‘zero emissions. The place where electricity is consumed does indeed have no emissions but that electricity was generated somewhere and globally it ALL has an environmental impact. The result is more environmental poison 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 - 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 oil or 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-powerline-losses/ Most energy produced by most engines is equal, at point of production. Cars, trucks, trains, planes, power generating stations and engines of all kinds start at about 35% efficiency. Transmission losses and charging inefficiencies make it go down up to 31% more from there. Total GHG Emissions in 2018 = 6,677 Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent. Percentages add up to 99% due to independent rounding. EPA tracks total U.S. emissions by publishing the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks. 27% GHG’s are released making electricity . . . How will increasing GHG’s producing Electricity for a cleaner environment and for Electric Cars save the Environment?? An honest question!! 79% of Global electric supply is non-renewable. 17% comes from hydro, 4% from wind, solar and renewables combined. Renewable or clean/green electric energy is said to be - emissions free . . . Not by a long shot! . . . For starters, 40% of the cost of building a Hydro dam is spent burning fossil fuels today. Running diesel-powered heavy machinery, moving earth, making reinforcing steel, producing concrete, building turbines and running the heavy machinery used to build those dams. More again is spent on steel for transmission towers and yet more on aluminum transmission lines. “Concrete and steel together account for 14.7% of global carbon dioxide emission.” https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/climateand-carbon/getting-carbon-concrete-steel-15869448/ We must recognise the environmental destruction caused by building these dams and running transmission lines through natural habitats to cities where we all live and work. We must not forget the 10,000 caribou that perished in Quebec because the James Bay hydro project blocked 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, each 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.” “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-energyharms-climate#:~:text We cut down forests and burn the wood as ‘biomass’ in North America and Europe and call it renewable energy – Why? Trees are the #1 contributor to removing CO2 from the air we all breath! Those forests take more than 100 years to regrow. Wind turbines are described as clean / green technology and renewable, on paper, but that is not even remotely true. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned the radioactive waste from producing these rare earth magnets in the USA, where it was invented by General Dynamics’ more than 30 years ago. Also, neo-dymium boron magnets are what drive the engines in the so called ‘Emissions free’ electric cars. Will electric cars end pollution? No! Sadly, pollution has just been moved out of site and out of mind to places like off in the Chinese wilderness where it is not seen and un-spoken. Again, we need to learn the science first! . . . All pollution must be eradicated, not just CO2. Radioactive Mongolian Tailings pond – 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. “8-15% is lost during transmission and from transformers”. https://blog.se.com/energy-managementenergy-efficiency/2013/03/25/how-big-are-power-line-losses/ The biggest loss of energy in any one place comes from charging Lithium batteries. Exciting the electrons inside a battery releases heat. To store 100 kilowatts of electricity it takes 115 kilowatts to accomplish that. 15% of the energy input 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-thanyour-battery-holds From transmission losses and charging losses, 31 % of the electricity produced is wasted as heat before beginning to turn the wheels on an electric car. From the generating station, be it wind turbine, coal fired or a nuclear power plant – Up to 15% in transmission and 16% or more charging the car batteries. 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 powered generator 70 % of energy produced gets to engine 30 % is lost heating the planet These Trucks and Trains also have electric motors turning those wheels . . . 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 and Electrification in general. Furthermore, why do governments give rebates for buying Electric Cars that waste so much energy? Electric cars are burning up to 31% more energy, Globally, for every kilometer driven compared to gasoline or diesel vehicles. Not a reduction in fuel 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 sleight of hand delivered by magicians selling a dream to believers in the myth of energy conservation falsely implied for drivers of electric cars . . . Some scientific facts never will change. OHM’S LAW – Resistance = Heat . . . Even the EPA missed the ‘How Electricity is Produced’ fundamentals in their analysis . . . Truth . . . All Electric Production . . . is Poison for the Environment! HEAT Adamant Naturalist Jim Le Maistre Aldergrove BC Copyright 2021