The Democrats are doing everything they can to get Americans into electric cars. However, those cars come with the risk of a serious loss of power—not just for the car but for those who buy those cars.
We have to begin with asking why is the governing pushing electric vehicles? And it’s not just cars, it’s also trucks. Why are they ignoring hybrid vehicles?
If something happens to the electric guts of a properly designed hybrid car, the vehicle can limp along with its smaller gas engine until it reaches safety. What happens to a fully electric vehicle if its electrical system fails? Nothing, of course!
You’re stuck. All you have is a hunk of metal and plastic. And if you run out of electricity while driving, you can’t just get a gallon gas can to fill the tank until you get to the nearest service station. Again, you’re stuck.
The next question is, “Are electric cars cheaper than gas cars?” No, they cannot be cheaper, and that’s even if you run them on renewables. Take solar energy, for example. Even if sunlight is free, the laws of thermodynamics still control it.
Every time energy changes form, there is a loss factor. Sunlight impinging on solar cells only changes 14-47% of the energy to electricity. The forty-seven percent figure is state-of-the-art, so it is not available for everyday use.
Electricity is then stored in chemical-based car batteries (with a loss). And then chemical energy is reconverted back to electricity (with a loss) and finally to mechanical energy where the tire rubber meets the road (with a loss).
At a guess, not more than 5% of the original sun power turns the wheels of an EV car. That’s awful. What this means is that it is more efficient to run a gas-powered vehicle.
You can do similar analyses with other renewables, whether wind or water power. They simply aren’t efficient.
Moreover, renewables are available intermittently (when the sun shines, the wind blows, or the water flows). Because we want to drive when those power sources aren’t immediately available, we will have to store excess sunlight in chemicals or in other ways, always remembering that storage and later reconversion is never free.
And of course, we will always have to maintain fossil-fuel backup plants in case of renewables’ failure.
This energy loss is not a secret. Smart people know about energy losses. Why, then, do so many favor a less efficient mode of transportation?
This analysis begins by recognizing that these smart people are fully aware of the above two points; namely, those fully-electric vehicles are a riskier transport system compared to hybrids, and renewable power is a less efficient use of limited energy resources than gasoline.
Given this information, it is time for our conspiracy theory. By favoring a transportation system that can fail at a single point, we confer upon those in power the ability to shut down an entire civilization.
And even if they don’t completely shut it down, the price of electricity will be centrally controlled, allowing a chokehold on all the people all of the time.
Redundancy is more expensive than efficiency, but redundancy at least leaves options. With our advanced understanding of complex systems today, no engineer would knowingly structure a system where failure at a single point makes everything inoperative for the foreseeable future.
One broken gear in a clock makes it useless for its purpose, but we can buy another clock. Remaking a resilient transportation system is a Herculean task.
The proper conclusion here is that society, meaning each and every one of us, should fight like hell before we allow such catastrophic vulnerabilities to be built into our future.
One EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) explosion will eliminate most of the affected population within six months—and it won’t be pleasant. Starvation is a particularly nasty way to end our days.
And all the time we are starving to death, we’ll have time to think how stupid we were to allow such things to be done to us.
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The use of hybrid cars would make a lot of sense for those who believe in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. They also avoid many of the pit falls of electric vehicles. However, it is the same conception situation as with the use of natural gas. By switching a lot of energy use to natural gas the US has out perform most industrial nations in reducing emission. However, the environmental extremist want net zero, and both hybrid cars and natural gas still have emissions.
Most people are unaware of just how likely a huge EMP is. In 1859 one hit the earth with so much energy that telegraph wires hummed. In 2012 there was another huge EMP burst but it missed earth.
First when, not if, an EMP or two were delivered over this USA most cars would not operate anyhow as elrctric is used in ignition and firing. Diesel might work? Heating and cooling units of homes would not work either etc.
As for telling the truthers to fight like hell before we allow catastrophic vulnerabilities to be built into our future….. and how is that supposed to be done? We have no vote… we have no consensus among the masses, we are censored and lied about and we have no marketing tool like the main stream media to reach the vast sea of sheep.
Like all typical Liberal Democrats Biden bases everything on Politics not science
Surely most modern cars rely on digital tech to make them work, in the case of a big EMP there would not be much traffic
Electric Cars four wheeled Death Traps and Fire Boxes
The energy transition, like climate change is being driven by IDEOLOGY, not science. Folks that are “Green Dreamers” have little tolerance for informed debate & energy imperatives as this does not fit their pre-determined NARRATIVE. So, much like religious fanatics the pertinent facts, logic & reason have little to do with the discussion. That is why some ADULTS need to start stepping up from the science/engineering & technological sectors to get an ACTUAL energy policy debate underway. Otherwise, these “drama & theater” types will run our economy straight into the ground…
An excellent summary. It’s ideology without practicality and is not supportable at this point in our history. We will look back at this hysteria the way we look back at the witch trials in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries and wonder how so many people could allow themselves to be duped and misled by a deliberately deceptive marketing campaign. Apparently, common sense is no longer common.
If you are a “progressive” , you favor change, even if it’s change for changes sake. I say it isn’t broke, let it be.
I agree with the author. Hybrid vehicles are a good option, but people like Mayor Pete don’t like half measures.