Wednesday, November 23, 2022

On The Subject Of Digital Media and Green Technology - Philosopy From Aldous Huxley and Inconvenient Facts About Lithium Batteries

 As regards the advances in Digital Media

 


 

John Stossel On The Inconvenient Truths Of Lithium-Ion Batteries vs The Laws Of Physics

https://reason.com/2022/11/16/electric-cars-are-good-but-we-still-need-fossil-fuels/  

 

"Engineers are really good at making things better, but they can't make them better than the laws of physics permit."

  John Stossel

Politicians praise electric cars. If everyone buys them, they say, solar and wind power will replace our need for oil.

But that's absurd.

"The future of the auto industry is electric," says President Joe Biden. He assumes a vast improvement in batteries. Better batteries are crucial because both power plants and cars need to store lots of electric power.

But here's inconvenient fact three: Batteries are lousy at storing large amounts of energy.

"Batteries leak, and they don't hold a lot," says physicist Mark Mills.

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