Electric vehicles (EVs) are being pitched as cleaner greener and sustainable, but are they?
What’s clean for the environment may not really be clean. Hidden beneath the shiny exteriors of an EV is the story of blood batteries. [bold, links added]
An electric car runs on a battery. But do you know what these batteries are made of? Rare metals like lithium and cobalt. The cobalt gives the battery stability and allows it to operate safely.
Half of the cobalt produced goes into electric cars. We’re talking about four to 30 kilos of cobalt per battery. Seventy percent of the total supply comes from one country. Congo. The Democratic Republic Of Congo.
This search for cobalt drives human rights violations, extreme poverty, and child labor.
China is one of the villains in this story. Are electric carmakers equally guilty too? WATCH:
h/t Rúnar O.
Green energy is NOT “green.” If you can find it, check out Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans.” While I don’t agree with the “anti-human” underpinnings of the film, his assessments of wind, solar & biomass are (pretty much) spot on. The obsession with renewables & batteries by environmental activists is just plain INCONGRUENT if you know any of the facts & processes behind the “Green Revolution.”
As I just commented on the Permian Basin dispatch, nobody seems to notice that all electric motors/generators emit ozone as a result of arcing between the contacts. So all EVs emit ozone, as do wind farms – yet another Green problem.
After the recent Supreme Court ruling it is guaranteed the Biden’s EPA will try to shut down coal plants with part of the justification being the ozone produced. The ozone emitted by EV’s and wind generators is an inconvenient truth.
I used to work in a lab where the ozone generated by deuterium lamps was high enough that it could be smelled. The company brought in an environmental safety firm and the concentration was found to be safe.
Here you are Eco-Freaks and liberal whiners the bitter truth about EV so just go home and sit in your basement for awhile
We won’t be seeing this on Australia’s ABC TV nor any MSM in the US.
Wrong story for the marxist elites.
Batteries requiring rare earths minerals are not just a problem for electric cars. California is now in the process of installing batteries to supplement the grid for when renewables are not available. The batteries and rare earth minerals that are required have to massive. Solar has ten times the energy density as wind energy, so the twelve hours a day on the average that the sun is down is a big problem.