03-20-2022, 09:23 PM
(03-20-2022, 08:37 PM)Blackrussian63 Wrote: A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size of a travel trunk. It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.
To manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth's crust for one battery."
"Going Green" may sound like the Utopian ideal but when you look at the hidden and embedded costs realistically with an open mind, you can see that Going Green is more destructive to the Earth's environment than meets the eye, for sure.
Not to mention the cold temperatures in Canada during the winter do not work well in electric cars.
The problem I keep running into when it comes to those folk that are sitting around trying to create a better world of their own making, is that they never look at all the pieces of the puzzle.
Everyone has a brilliant blueprints for how to build a brick house, but no one has even thought about where they are going to get the bricks.
For every one person that read this post. About 7.99 billion have not.
Yet I still post.
