The work of Porsche and Siemens looked to have paid off -
Is the writing now on the wall for the Electric vehicle?
Breaking news - Porsche and Siemens now have seemingly cracked the synthetic Petrol alternative and are about to set up a reining plant for their new synthetic fuels so is this development going to kill off the battery powered vehicle offerings?
Also, Pay Per Mile driving on Electric cars will come in and no one knows how much per mile will be taken from Drivers - as governments seek to recoup the 80% fuel duty money lost on Petrol and Diesel sales. Will the electric car drivers look so smug then? Driving could really cost them.
The recent introduction of the 'not very Green' E10 Ethanol blended Petrol is somewhat farcical - that is this fuel generates a carbon footprint, it needs more fuel to do the job of what it replaced, it damages some vehicle fuel systems and has a limited shelf life and will need disposal when it goes stale (which is quite quickly) a fact that has not been thought out - and that is just for starters.
The 'race to the bottom' of car makers to pander to the Eco warriors and their plan to rid us of internal combustion engines when they are at the most efficient they have ever been, is frankly crazy. Then to rape the planet of rare earth, finite materials to fulfil their warped battery car ideology? You couldn't make it up.
We are being asked to as an alternative to old Dinosaur derived fuels to rip up the Earth they care so much about to extract a finite palate of minerals to satisfy these smug individuals and their egos. F*ck the planet, in this case - so long as it puffs up the egos of the smug lefties. Oh and what about the child labour used to mine the Cobalt for electric car batteries?
Where is the extra electricity to come from to power these battery devices? Good question. The power we get at the end of power lines these days is noticeably down - domestic cooking shows that.
Fuel Stations run on low margins of profit from Petrol and Diesel sales - it is just that these stations sell a lot of fuel which keeps them in business. Have a car sitting on a charger for 2 hours and you could have sold a lot of liquid fuel in that time. Simple. As the Meerkat says. This means we could see many petrol stations close on profit grounds.
This new fuel
The Porsche Siemens fuel is derived from Methanol and if this can run satisfactorily in a Porsche then hopefully it will be safe in other cars including classic cars which are at risk from this awful E10 compound and shelf serving green lobby. The stupid argument about banning the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles is because they use fossil fuels.
If you fuel these same vehicles with Porsche's fuel, it is still going to produce some CO2, but the difference is that the fuel isn't made from old Dinosaurs extracted from the ground - that seems to be the big bugbear for the Eco Warriors.
These smug self-serving Eco Warriors have not yet realised that China now has control over the majority of the minerals on this planet needed to make the green revolution happen - which have to come out of the ground and it is free to charge what it likes when the stupid idiots have taken the viable alternative away - that is stopped the production and sale of ICE cars. So why don't these green guardians not take their climate protests to China? That;s were the real problems are.
We have alternatives to help reduce emissions - firstly to commute less and work remotely more at home and other sites if that suits people, secondly to cull most luxury tourist aviation. We have had free energy available since 1954 but because we are an oil based world, it has been supressed.
An airline taking off and attaining altitude expels in that few minutes the same volume of CO2 that a family car does in 10 years of average mileage - around 70,000 miles of driving. Multiply the Heathrow daily output of aircraft movements by that metric and that is a lot of the world we could help to save by not flying most 'luxury' airline routes.
The bottom line in reality is we have to reduce the world population because we are running out of world. Shortages projected in the 1980's to impact 'anytime now' are now starting to bite, as our population has doubled in size since 1965.
The electric vehicle scenario brings a ton of problems that could be avoided. People are jumping on this trendy bandwagon which is a race to the bottom and the wheel might well come off it. There are a lot of unknowns about the future of battery vehicles which are in their infancy and may not deliver what is expected, then what?
Synthetic fuels are the future and fuels like E10 are not. Electric is not the future either as 1 in 5 Californians are rejecting electric cars and going back to gasoline powered cars as the electric cars don't have the range and take too long to charge.
You have to ask yourself who is getting rich by al this stuff? They say follow the money and that's where you need to look to see where the vested interests reside.
No comments:
Post a Comment