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Just witnessed this meeting of the minds on FB
(poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
People arguing about the price of gas, but as soon as someone mentions driving an EV they're "stupid" and woke
"BUT WHERE DO THEY THINK THAT POWER EVEN COMES FROM!!????"
Well, if someone would spend two seconds thinking about it, renewable are a good investment. It's not like we want to stop burning coal today, but this argument gets me everytime.
Plus, burning fossil fuels in a dedicated generator in optimal conditions, then converting that to electricity, transferring that electricity over the grid to an electric car generates less emissions than burning it straight in an ICE engine to convert it into kinetic energy. Even if you ignore all the fossil fuels that are burned during extraction, transport and conversion before it gets to your local petrol station.
Exactly. Even if you're not using renewables to charge your EV, they're still significantly more fuel efficient due to the gains you get from producing energy in a power plant instead of through a small engine. I read somewhere that an EV with a 300 mile range is using the same amount of fuel to charge as if you were burning 3 gallons of gasoline.
Yeah... The power for my EV comes from my solar panels. Both a great investment. Now that the electricity company is raising rates on electricity usage, I'm even happier with my decision.
The only thing coal has going for it is you can burn it when the sun is down and the wind has stopped. Solar makes more financial sense
"On average, the marginal cost for the coal plants is $36 each megawatt hour, while new solar is about $24 each megawatt hour, or about a third cheaper.,Only one coal plant – Dry Fork in Wyoming – is cost competitive with the new renewables."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/30/us-coal-more-expensive-than-renewable-energy-study