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August 8th sunset over Hogback Ridge and Heron Peak. Durango CO with air quality warnings of "ozone" or possibly smoke from wildfires. I kept the windows closed.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Rethinking the electric car

 This is a CAT994A.





It burns around 1,000 litres of fuel in 12 hours, moving around 250 tons of dirt to remove materials needed to produce ONE Tesla battery.


To make any battery, you have to edit:
- 12 tonnes of lithium silk
- 15 tons of ore for cobalt
- 3 tons of ore for nickel,
- 12 tonnes of copper ore
And move 250 tons of crust.


For only - one - battery, approximately:
- 12 kg Lithium
- 30 kg Nickel
- 22 kg Mangan
- 15 kg of cobalt
- 100 kg of copper
- 200 kg of aluminum, steel and plastic
And people believe in zero emissions when driving their electric car


Posted on Facebook Mar 10 by Ilona Kaa


Today's quote:

"There is no reason why a great poet should be a wise and good man, or even a tolerable human being, but there is every reason why his reader should be improved in his humanity as a result of reading him."  Northrop Frye,