RE: Anyone watch "Adam Ruins Everything"?
March 16, 2021 at 4:55 am
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2021 at 4:56 am by Fake Messiah.)
From what I remember (I haven't re-watched the video yet) is that Adam claims how EVs pollute more than gasoline cars because they take electricity from the grid that gets supplied by coal and oil. But that seems to be misleading.
Here's for instance from Skeptoid podcast episode on that subject that came out not long after Adam's episode
And I myself don't think that EVs are the best solution because there are still like over billion of cars to be replaced (and I think Adam mentioned that), so perhaps the best solution would be carbon capture fuel since then people wouldn't have to buy new cars and carbon would only circle around instead of new carbon (and other pollutants) being dug up from the ground and pumped in the air.
But then again lots (or most?) people do buy every car every 15 or so years so why not electric?
Here's for instance from Skeptoid podcast episode on that subject that came out not long after Adam's episode
Quote:The claim that the lifecycle of an electric car produces more greenhouse gases than an internal combustion car is entirely the result of 50% carefully cherrypicked spin doctoring combined with 50% outright falsehoods. Here's the only way that argument can be made to work. If you buy an electric car with the biggest battery that requires the most manufacturing resources, if you drive your electric car in the least efficient way, if you drive your electric car in the worst climatic conditions for battery life, if you charge it only with electricity generated entirely by oil or coal, if you do not properly recycle the battery at the end of its life, and if you choose for your comparison the biggest-battery electric car against the smallest, lightest, compact internal combustion car: only then will it be true that the lifespan of your electric car generates more greenhouse gases than an internal combu— Oh wait, no; crunching the numbers again, the answer is still no. Even this worst case scenario substantially beats even the most efficient internal combustion cars. There's still one thing we have to do to before our electric car will actually be worse, and that's crash it and remove it from service before it's been driven anywhere. Because as soon as you and your internal combustion counterpart start driving, the scale tips the other direction.
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4687
And I myself don't think that EVs are the best solution because there are still like over billion of cars to be replaced (and I think Adam mentioned that), so perhaps the best solution would be carbon capture fuel since then people wouldn't have to buy new cars and carbon would only circle around instead of new carbon (and other pollutants) being dug up from the ground and pumped in the air.
But then again lots (or most?) people do buy every car every 15 or so years so why not electric?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
