Soldato
Yep, after you take out all the petrol, diesel and aircraft fuel there's about 19% of a barrel made in to other products.
not enough.Well yeah expected, but how many kittens did you suffocate on the way
oil refinery uses more electricity than a large town (like the size of Coventry).
But that’s not really the case is it?
The refining process alone uses multiple TwH hours of electricity from the grid each year alone. An oil refinery uses more electricity than a large town (like the size of Coventry). Then factor in all the transport of said fuel (pipelines, trucking and shipping) and all the energy that is used extracting said crude). The last stats were reported in 2005, the industry unsurprisingly refuses to report it and it’s not in the govs interest to force them. Fuel consumption has increased since then (through more cars in the road).
There is a reason why the big old refineries in Texas are installing huge solar and wind warms to power the refinery. Funnily enough it’s cheaper than using a gas/oil fuelled power station...
They cut down the trees to build a factory that will reduce co2 output many times more than that lost by the loss of the trees
When you fell from the stupid tree did you miss any branches?
Musk is **** rich he is likley a ******* *** hole to work for, he is likley a ******" **** but his mission and personal goal for what ever reason benefit man kind (or appear to),.. I'd love to meet him but am under no illusions that someone so successful and rich would not want to speak to or entertain a pleb like me.
It's about 91 hectares of forest, if it's ancient forest then it can never be replaced and the damage is much more than just the co2
Loving the insults you throw around, perhaps do some research first before mouthing off?
I shall put it out there.
Fewer people are learning to drive. Delivery and low cost app taxis make owning a car impracticable.
As motorist road pricing is going to hit us really hard. Electric cars are currently an upper middle class diner conversation on how their other halfs cope with the Tesla shopping cart.
Every taxi firm has gone totally electric has tailed. My company bought the software to the last Canadian company for pennies.
Eco/electric fanatics are convinced Lithium ion batteries will make a jump to allow vans/large vans/HGVs to accommodate the gap. In my vehicle requirements a hybrid is 2 years away.
Pie in the sky as by law manufacturers will now only pursue the Lithium ion solution which is flawed.
If electric cars will be so good in 10 years time why do we need laws to stop us buying anything else? The truth is they are rubbish and wont be equivalent.
Need to start thinking of a car as an accessory much like your phone, you only need enough juice to do what your going to do, after that you plug it in and its ready for the next day/use.
Graphene will fix the overheating issue too.
I hate to agree with Nasher but he said something in another thread that resonated - if EV is the future and is so great why is there a need to ban petrol and diesel? If EV is optimal why would we even want to buy a petrol car in 2040?