They do, but they also consume water. Grow a tree where there's more CO2 around, and there are fewer somata in the leaves, enough to let them get the CO2 they need while losing less water vapour. Trees also need other nutrients, and if there aren't more of them around, you don't get the extra trees.
Don't be silly. Current electric car batteries are expected to last between ten and fifteen years. Some are guaranteed for eight years.
Commander Kinsey is a pig-ignorant wanker. When he says he's a "realist" he's actually saying that he's making a cynical guess.
My 10 years old Leaf battery is still 60% usable after 80,000 miles. Mine is outside the "no battery" range.
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This hardly looks linear:
kw
Proven reserve is a function of oil price. That chart was drawn when oil price was around $70. At $110 oil, there are lots more oil reserve now.
On Sunday, 22 May 2022 at 09:03:25 UTC-7, Ed Lee wrote: ...
Doesn't seem to be much correlation:
Take time for oil countries/companies to update their reserves. The recent price increase is relatively short term. For example, Canada's oil sands are proven at $80 to $90.
Not exactly. The shale oil and tar sands weren't economic until the world oil prices rose. We just redefined 'proven reserves' to include new stuff.
Meaningless, since there was no world market for oil in the 1800s; depletion would only have been meaningful for a single oil field, not for a planet. " Oil exploration" was a phrase that would have conjured images of whaling boats.
In the 1800's? Yes, certainly. Today? Depletion of cod in fisheries, of the cedars of Lebanon, of pink ivory, of mammoths, etcetera are all historic (or prehistoric) fact. Oil has less growth capacity than those resources. The depletion predictions of the modern era were (circa 1980) 'one or two centuries', and we don't know that they were premature. Those predictions did NOT use 'known reserves' as indicators.
So, when exactly WERE predictions made, that weren't as irrelevant as those from the 1800s, nor as untested as those from decades ago?
That article clearly shows (Hubbard, 1956) a model that still seems plausible, and not at all 'premature'. Didn't you read the thing you cited?
This is cool:
We only have 47 years until we run out of oil. By 2050, we'll be 60 years from running out!
There's a lot of area and depth left to explore.
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Yes, but the same arguments apply to the reserves of Lithium as there are at least a few hundred billion tons either as deposits or in the oceans.
As the technology of cars and mining evolves and the financial incentives stimulate exploration and development more is likely to be discovered or alternatives found. Probably enough for billions of cars.
kw
Billions of cars, ah yes. We have to provide for all these driverless cars that will soon clog our roads.
Jeroen Belleman
But putting even more CO2 into the atmosphere will be an even worse idea than it is now. John Larkin won't care because he will probably have died of heat-stroke sometime before then.
Cheap driverless taxis to get you that last mile to and from the station or the airport may not need to be all that numerous.
Will there be oil enough for billions of tires or to create the plastics that are a large component of modern cars? Or are you trying to put bandaids on an unsustainable system to eke out a few more decades?
WOW! That means your range to total discharge is a grand FORTY FOUR MILES (which you don't dare use, so 30 miles is more realistic)!! Your trips will have to be within a 15 mile radius. The cost to replace the battery is roughly $5k, more than the car is worth.
I have another 10kwh battery siting in the car, connected to the OBC (On Board Charger) output. Still trying to figure out how to trick the OBC to enable the output. Look like i need to build a dummy self charger, which is charging from the vehicle battery, but pumping energy from the auxiliary battery.
I have spend around $1k for parts so far.
The sea is 0.2ppm lithium and weighs over 10^18 tonnes, so there's more than a thousand times more lithium on Earth than that just in the sea water.
That may be a fun hobby, but it doesn't sound like sensible transportation.
40 miles are enough 90% of the time. For long distance, I can stuff extra batteries in. I think i can stuff in 30 to 50 kwhr eventually.
EVs are not for everyone. EV/ICE will have to co-exist.
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