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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 656177" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>[ATTACH=full]5629[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities[/URL]</p><p></p><p>The increase in destructive mining will be quite negligible, The tiny greenbushes mine in WA produces about a third of world demand at present. If every country changed to EV it would probably require less than a few million tonnes per year. That is not much volume of mine when spread over many countries. And recycling has already begun.</p><p></p><p>My 7 Kw home air conditioner uses about 70 KwH of power overnight, an average EV uses about 75 KwH to charge overnight, so more like a single air conditioners (not 20, but that is still a lot per household multiplied by many households). Some estimates claim Australia would require 3 times its present electricity consumption if we all had EVs, and much of the extra would be overnight when the sun doesn't shine. I think this is a major factor not being mentioned. How do you triple the country's power consumption at the same time as becoming carbon neutral?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 656177, member: 4386"] [ATTACH type="full"]5629[/ATTACH] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/which-emits-more-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-or-human-activities[/URL] The increase in destructive mining will be quite negligible, The tiny greenbushes mine in WA produces about a third of world demand at present. If every country changed to EV it would probably require less than a few million tonnes per year. That is not much volume of mine when spread over many countries. And recycling has already begun. My 7 Kw home air conditioner uses about 70 KwH of power overnight, an average EV uses about 75 KwH to charge overnight, so more like a single air conditioners (not 20, but that is still a lot per household multiplied by many households). Some estimates claim Australia would require 3 times its present electricity consumption if we all had EVs, and much of the extra would be overnight when the sun doesn't shine. I think this is a major factor not being mentioned. How do you triple the country's power consumption at the same time as becoming carbon neutral? [/QUOTE]
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