Amusing how many people want to debate me on the veracity and accuracy of the EV battery lifecycle assessments (just the battery manufacturing) differing from each other by 600%, as explained by Mark P. Mills.
Thing is I have not even brought up any other little details like the extraordinary costs in terms of heavy civil construction, mining, rock crushing and processing, etc. to build, say, a single, little EV factory. This current project is the largest civil construction project east of the Mississippi. 24 Million Cubic Yards of dirt/rock need moving just for starters. Millions of gallons of diesel fuel burned up. Making 3x more Gasoline. And that’s just the factory—not the mine. All to save gasoline later.
Enjoy your Excel spreadsheets. I’m sure this is just a rounding error-scale issue so you can ignore it.
“I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Racking up 9k aggregate miles per day on the diesel rigs. The scale is astounding! How do we introduce Fewest Material Inputs (FMI) into the Green lexicon?