Hybrids
Lithium and hybrids...
19/10/09 20:01 Filed in:Current Affairs
I have been reading JP Magazine with special interest (issue November 2009). The Trail Head article talks about burning fossil fuels and lithium. John Cappa raised some interesting questions which has put my Toyota Prius purchase back even further!
Electric cars are all good and well but the greenness of that surely depends on how the electricity is generated in the first place. Secondly, lithium batteries require lithium which is a scarce resource for which demand will increase five-fold. Thirdly, lithium is mined in Bolivia which is not one of the world's most stable countries. Forthly, the manufacture of lithium batteries isn't the cleanest form of industry and lastly, what happens with the vehicles' batteries, that have a life span of 100,000 miles only (is that true??), once these cars are going to the scrapheap.
The Toyota Prius is all the rage at the moment and unfortunately, only a few of us dare question these ill-informed do-gooders on what the long term effects are of their jumping on a Bilderberg group induced band wagon.
Nothing is ever what it seems guys! Keep thinking for yourself and question what others would like to believe as gospel. Global Warming is the new religion. Think for yourself!
Electric cars are all good and well but the greenness of that surely depends on how the electricity is generated in the first place. Secondly, lithium batteries require lithium which is a scarce resource for which demand will increase five-fold. Thirdly, lithium is mined in Bolivia which is not one of the world's most stable countries. Forthly, the manufacture of lithium batteries isn't the cleanest form of industry and lastly, what happens with the vehicles' batteries, that have a life span of 100,000 miles only (is that true??), once these cars are going to the scrapheap.
The Toyota Prius is all the rage at the moment and unfortunately, only a few of us dare question these ill-informed do-gooders on what the long term effects are of their jumping on a Bilderberg group induced band wagon.
Nothing is ever what it seems guys! Keep thinking for yourself and question what others would like to believe as gospel. Global Warming is the new religion. Think for yourself!
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