Electric Cars Increase Energy Demand 31 Percent Over Gas Cars - JL by John A. Shanahan

Electric Cars Increase Energy Demand 31% over Gas Cars

ZERO EMISSIONS . . . Where you drive the Car YES . . . BUT . . . How is Electricity Made . . .? How is Electricity Transmitted and How is it Stored . . .? What is the ‘Life Cycle of Electricity’ – Production to User?

The Planet Suffers Every Time We Use Electricity

And All ‘Green Energy Solutions’ are ‘A Big Green Lie’ 1

Let’s Examine the Scientific Facts . . . Why suppress the Science disproving the Myths and False Propaganda surrounding Electricity and Electric Cars? Does good Science somehow hurt the Environmental Movement? Does the Science exposing the High Environmental Cost from Producing, Transmitting and Storing Electricity hurt anyone? Why is there such a reluctance to publish these Scientific Facts? Does exposing the High Environmental Cost of Producing, Transmitting and Storing Electricity for Electric Cars and the ‘Green Alternatives’ hurt anyone? Knowledge is an essential part of making Informed Decisions. False Data and Misleading Information is wrapped up in the ‘Propaganda’ promoting Electric Cars and ‘Green Energy’ and the ‘Emissions Free’ Myth. Simple math and Scientific facts dispute this propaganda - It is NOT Climate-Denial or Anti-Environmentalism. It is simple Science that everybody should know. Hidden Facts surrounding Electricity and the ‘Embodied Energy’ contained must be revealed. Wishful thinking about cleaning up the Air we Breathe is a Very Good, in principle. However, we are Falsely led to believe in the ‘Zero Emissions’ Deception about Electric Cars. We never about hear about the Science pointing to the Environmental Damage caused when we Produce, Transmit and Store Electricity. “The Embodied Energy” that leads to Environmental Destruction all over the World. It remains unspoken . . . yet, it is Very, Very Real.

Where does electricity come from? Sources of Electricity - International Energy Agency – 2019

66% of all Electricity Produced comes from Burning Fossil Fuels. 79% is Non-Renewable (fossil fuels + nuclear). Electricity is presented as having ‘Zero Emissions’. Where the Electricity is Consumed indeed, it has no emissions, but that Electricity was Generated Somewhere. It ALL has an Environmental Impact. The result is more Environmental Impact, not less. Cities may have cleaner air, but the Planet gets more polluted. All energy production machines are about 35% efficient, including Cars, Trucks and Power Generating Stations – Even Bio-Fuels, Physics 101. “The efficiency of power plants like nuclear, coal-fired or natural gas turbines. These technologies are based on a thermodynamic cycle, that efficiency is in the order of 35%. This means that the combustion of coal, for example, will produce heat, which will be converted into mechanical energy and then into electricity". https://blog.se.com/energy-management-energy-efficiency/2013/03/25/how-big-are-power-line-losses/ 2

Where Does Electricity Come From? An Overview . . .

Coal Power Plant

Nuclear Power Plant Natural Gas Power Plant

Diesel Power Plant

79 % of Global Electricity Comes from these sources

Wind Power

Solar Power

Bio-Fuel Plant

Bio-Fuel Power Plant

4 % of Global Electricity Comes from ‘Renewable’ sources

17 % of Global Energy Comes from Hydro Dams 3

15 % of Electricity Produced is Lost as Heat in Transmission

DC Power Grid

Transformers Convert fom DC to AC

When Electricity is Lost, where does it go? OHM’S Law . . . Heat . . . Electrons moving back and forth crash into each other, and those Collisions warm up power lines and the air around them. More Heat Loss again at Transformer Stations converting DC to AC in our Neighborhoods. “Up to 15 % is lost during Transmission and from Transformers”. https://blog.se.com/energy-management-energy-efficiency/2013/03/25/how-big-are-powerline-losses/

Another 16 % Is lost as Heat Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Cars

Green Car Reports – Why it takes more Energy than your Battery holds The real reason for the discrepancy is that you lose some energy to Heat to the onboard charging. According to Kia, for instance, it’s typical for the onboard charger to lose 14 percent or more of the energy input on the way to charging the cells in the battery pack. Factor in charger inaccuracies (Kia notes that 3 to 5 percent isn’t unusual) and you could end up ‘officially’ putting in well over 15 percent more energy than the battery’s capacity while restoring the charge to 100 percent https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098248_charging-an-electric-car-why-it-takes-more-energy-than-your-battery-holds

Green car congress 05 September 2018 Unlike conventionally fueled vehicles, electric vehicles experience a loss of energy during “refueling,” with an energy loss of about 16% from the wall power to the battery during charging. https://www.greencarcongress.com/2018/09/20180905fotw.html#:~:text=Unlike%20conventionally%20fueled%20vehicles%2C%20 electric,to%20the%20battery%20during%20charging.

31 % is Lost getting Electricity from Power Plant to Electric Motor Let’s Calculate Total Input Factors for Electricity Starting at Production

All Power Plants use a Thermodynamic Cycle - The Efficiencies are about 35% Coal, Diesel, Nuclear, Natural Gas, and Bio Fuel . . . That is 81% of all Electricity 31 % of that power is Lost as Heat During Transmission and Charging 35% x 31% = 10.85 % 35 % - 10.85% = 24.15% of gross potential Goes to the Wheels of the Electric Motor Gas Powered Vehicles after Burning fuels have the full 35 % going to the Wheels

Electric Cars - 31 % . . . is Heat loss . . . from Transmission and Charging Therefore . . . Electric Vehicles burn 31 % more Energy per Kilometer Driven

The EPA tracks U.S. GHG’s by publishing the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Total GHG Emissions in 2018 = 6,677 Million Metric Tons of CO2 equivalent. 27% of Green House Gases are released Producing Electricity

Will producing MORE GHG’s for Electric Cars save the Environment?? . . . NO! The following literature does Not mention the 65% loss Generating the Electricity or - The 15% line-loss from the Generating Station to the Charger or the 16% Wasted Charging the Battery People are so confused about Electric Cars . . . 5

Below, Even the Energy Loss Charging the Battery is off by 60 % . . . That is 6 % Below actual energy demand charging the battery . . . False, again!

Where the Energy Goes: Electric Cars https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv-ev.shtml

Electric vehicles (EVs) are more efficient than their gasoline-powered counterparts. An EV electric drive system is only responsible for a 15% to 20% energy loss compared to 64% to 75% for a gasoline engine. EVs also use regenerative braking to recapture and reuse energy that normally would be lost in braking and waste no energy idling. See All-Electric Vehicles for details . . . FALSE ! EVs are 60% to 73% efficient, depending upon drive cycle. However, if the energy recaptured from regenerative braking is counted (i.e., recounted when it is re-used), EVs are 77% to 100% efficient. (For more information on how vehicle efficiency is calculated, see Vehicle Fuel Efficiency.) . . . FALSE !

False, Poorly Researched, Manipulative, Promotional Propaganda . . .!

This Research Assumes, Electricity Supplied has ZERO Emissions during Production False!

Total Nonsense! Purely - Creative Writing and Deception . . . False . . . False . . . False . . . !! . . . Bad Science! 6

This is the Source for the Electricity in the Document Above ! How Does That Document Get Electric Power to the Charger – 0 input cost ?? ***************************

Below - A Diesel-Powered Generating Station - for Electric Cars Representing all Electrical Sources - Diesel, Nuclear, Coal or Bio-fuel Evidence of How Electric Production Actually Works !!

16% of the Electricity from that generator is wasted as Heat - charging the lithium battery 7

Renewable Energy . . . 79% of Global Electricity is Non-Renewable. 17% from hydro. 4% from Wind, Solar and Renewables combined. Green Electricity is said to be - Emissions Free. Not by a long shot! Clean Energy – Bio-Fuels – ‘Wood is currently the largest contributor to this Bio-Fuel energy market, accounting for as much as 45 percent of all renewable energy consumed’. https://www.wri.org/blog/2017/12/insider-why-burning-trees-energyharms-climate#:~:text. . . 40% of building a Hydro Dam is spent Burning Fossil Fuels. Running Diesel Machinery, Moving Earth, Making Steel, Producing Concrete, and Building Turbines for those Dams. More again on Steel for Transmission Towers and more again for Aluminum Transmission Lines. “Concrete and Steel Together,

account for 14.7% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” Those 400’ towers supporting wind turbines are made of concrete and steel. https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/climate-and-carbon/getting-carbon-concrete-steel-15869448/ Remember, Environmental Destruction is caused building these Dams and running Transmission Lines through Nature to where we live and work. We must remember that 10,000 Caribou perished in Quebec because the James Bay Hydro Project flooded Migration Routes for the Largest Migrating Heard of Caribou in North America. This is NOT clean energy! Where is the outrage? This cannot be swept under the rug!

All Energy Production has a Toxic Environmental Cost!

New York Times, Montreal Gazette, CBC TV – 1984 Wind Turbines are described as ‘Clean & Green Technology and Renewable’. That is not even remotely true! The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Banned the Radioactive Waste from producing ‘Rare Earth Magnets’ contained in those Turbines. They were invented in the USA by General Dynamics, more than 35 years ago. Neo-Dymium Boron Magnets are also what Drive the Engines in those ‘Emissions free’ Electric Cars. Will Electric Cars End Pollution? NO! Sadly, Pollution is just moved out of site and out of mind to places off in the wilderness, unseen and un-spoken. Again, we need to learn the Science first. Each one weighs about 1,688 tons (equivalent to 23 houses) and they contain 1,300 tons of concrete and 295 tons of steel for the masts 8

(Concrete and Steel = 15% Global CO2). 3.5 tons of copper, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass Then there are the rare earth minerals . . . 800 lbs. of neodymium-boron per turbine, praseodymium, and dysprosium. The leaching into the environment from tailings ponds, the radiation released into the environment and the mining of these minerals are all Embedded Costs. Where are all the calculations for all of these in The Environmental reports? Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last about 15 to 20 years, then, it must be replaced. Oh, we cannot recycle used blades yet either! That is why we see them lying on the ground at wind farms after they have been replaced. What about the coal burned and electricity used at all the production facilities processing these essential components and the CO2 generated during their production? Somehow is this ‘Green Magic’ without pollution, because it will be used to produce Green Energy? Not likely! It all gets brushed under the ‘Big Green Rug’ and seems irrelevant because ‘It’s for a Good Cause’ . . . Absolutely NOT! . . . All Pollution must be Eradicated . . . not just CO2

One Wind Turbine contains 800 lbs. of Neo-Dymium Boron. More Radiation is released making these RareEarth Magnets in Mongolia, where 80% of Global demand is produced, than all the Nuclear Reactors in the USA combined, every year. As one environmentalist told the Daily Mail, “There is not one step of the rare earth mining process that is not disastrous for the environment.”

Radioactive Tailings Pond Mongolia, China – Rare Earth Magnets for Cars and Wind Turbines BBC - Big Wind's Dirty Little Secret - Toxic Lakes, 2013 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth 800 LBS of Neodymium Boron in one (1) wind turbine . . . Solar Panels, the main problem with them is the Heat and the chemicals needed during processing using the ‘Czochralski Method’ turning all that silicate into the silicon used to make these panels. Producing pure Silicon requires the processing of raw silicate. Including the 1,425o C Heat required to melt the quartz crystals, usually by burning coking coal or gas. The Glass covers are made by heating sand, soda ash and limestone to the incredibly high temperature of 1,700o C with gas. What about the CO2 going up the chimneys where that quartz or that glass was melted? Then, Silica, we use hydrochloric acid, Sulfuric Acid, Nitric Acid, Hydrogen Fluoride, Trichloroethane, and Acetone. Do we recycle that waste? What happens to all the ‘left-overs’ from using these highly toxic chemicals? Solar Panels need gallium-arsenide, copper-indium, gallium-diselenide, and cadmium-telluride. All of which are highly toxic even radioactive. Furthermore, Silicon dust is a hazard to workers where silicone is made and where it used. Oh, and last, the Silicone infused Solar Panels cannot, as yet, be recycled. What happens to all the by-products from making and processing all these chemicals? Furthermore, it has been suggested that the energy input to build solar panels exceeds their energy output in their productive lifetime. 9

When Electricity is Lost, where does it go? OHM’S Law . . . Heat . . . Electrons moving back and forth crash into each other, and those collisions warm up power lines and the air around them. More heat loss again at Power Stations converting DC to AC and then again, more heat loss at Transformers in your neighborhood. “15% is Heat Loss during Transmission and from Transformers”. https://blog.se.com/energy-managementenergy-efficiency/2013/03/25/how-big-are-power-line-losses/

The biggest loss of Electricity in any one place comes from Charging Lithium Batteries. Exciting the electrons inside your battery releases Heat. 100 kilowatts of Electricity Stored in a Lithium battery takes 116 kilowatts. 16 % of that Electricity is lost as Heat . . . https://www.greencarcongress.com/2018/09/20180905-fotw.html https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1098248_charging-an-electric-car-why-it-takes-more-energy-than-your-battery-holds

Transmission Losses plus the Charging Losses lead to 31 % of the Electricity Produced is being wasted as Heat. 35% x 31% = 10.85 % is lost from Transmission and Storage. 35% - 10.85% = 24.15% gets to turn the wheels. Electric Cars Burn 75.85 % of Energy Potential, Heating and Polluting the Planet . . . 65 % for Gas Cars . . .

Look at Three (3) machines with Electric Engines and see how they compare

Diesel generator on board 100 % of electricity produced Gets to engine

Coal - Hydro – Nuclear – Wind – Hydro 69 %of electricity produced gets to engine 31 % is lost HEATING the planet

Why is this knowledge not broadly known? Who keeps this from reaching the public? Why are we not told? Who gains from this misinformation? The Media and Governments must step up and Dispel the Illusions and False information disseminated by Propagandists, Profiteers and Self-Interested Advocacy Groups Who Promote Electric Cars. Why do governments give rebates for buying Electric Cars? Electric cars burn 31 % more energy Globally, for every kilometer driven compared to Gasoline or Diesel Vehicles. Not a reduction in energy consumption! Not Emissions Free! Not some Panacea to save the World from Pollution! Just another trick to fool the Mases into believing in ‘Energy Free Magic’. Technology and Charging Efficiencies have improved enough to make competition possible for Electric Car Makers . . . Electricity remains Highly Inefficient as an Energy Source for Cars . . . Some day when we can produce Electricity 'On-Board' from a New Source of Energy, things may change. Until then, Electric Cars are little more than a game of ‘Sleight of Hand’ delivered by Magicians bent on selling a dream to Believers in the myth of Green Energy and The Emissions Free Lies. This is falsely implied for drivers of Electric Cars! Some Scientific facts will never change. OHM’S LAW – Resistance = Heat . . . Even the US Department of Energy missed the ‘Where Electricity Comes From’ fundamentals . . . Truth . . . All Electricity is Poison

for the Environment, from start to finish!! These Truths can NOT be swept under The Big Green Rug.

Electric Cars add 31% more Heat & Pollution to the Planet for every KM driven! 10

How are things Made? How much ‘Embodied Energy’ is contained? What does it take to Build, Maintain and Operate? What is included in the Science?

‘OHMS LAW’

HEAT ‘Basic Science’ Never goes out of Style !

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