Haven’t read the article, but perhaps he assumes virgin aluminum, which is very energy intensive. However even if virgin aluminum is used, 90% of big scrap (like car) aluminum is recycled, so that energy is essentially reclaimed out the back end.
One has to read this kind of stuff very carefully. My dad was a staunch conservative and listened religiously to Rush Limbaugh. RL was ranting one day about laws to give up regular lightbulbs for CFLs, and if you broke a CFL your house became a hazmat area due the (minuscule) amount of mercury. I had to explain that since most of our energy comes from coal, and coal has mercury, that regular bulbs, being so inefficient, cause much more mercury to be spewed into the atmosphere over the bulbs lifetime. That’s why I haven’t bothered reading the article. Beware of people with agendas. -Steve > On Jan 4, 2023, at 11:36 PM, Michael Ross via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Zeihan says ICE looks a lot better and leans on the aluminum in the Tesla > bodywork. I wonder about this, but don't know how to evaluate it. > >> On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 4:36 PM John Lussmyer via EV <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Just one of the many issues to point out: >> >>> On 1/4/2023 12:29 PM, Michael Ross via EV wrote: >>> The carbon footprint of Teslas >>> is not good when you correctly factor in the manufacturing footprint. >> >> >> Do the same calcs for a Gas car - which makes the EV look far better. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Address messages to [email protected] >> No other addresses in TO and CC fields >> HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ >> >> > > -- > Michael E. Ross > (919) 585-6737 Land > (919) 901-2805 Cell and Text > (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, > Google Phone and Text > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20230104/0b4625d1/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to [email protected] > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
