That picture upsets teslafags.
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Owen Carter
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Michael Bailey
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Noah Richardson
Engineering perspective:
Usually, when you scale heat engines used for producing electricity up, they increase in efficiency. Therefore, instead of using a bunch of really inefficient heat engines, you're centralizing the production of power. And since it's stationary, it's a lot easier to institute pollution reduction and carbon harnessing technologies.
This is all before mentioning the current push to greatly increase the production of renewable energy. It's cleaner on average to use fossil fuels in large plants than in car engines.
Andrew Butler
Nuclear energy = cleanest (apart from maybe wind) energy (so long as there are no accidents which rarely occur anyway)
Owen Taylor
This is pretty much accurate, but waste disposal is a severe problem that remains unsolved.
Ryder Anderson
>cleanest
Except the whole highly toxic byproduct that we don't even know how to safely dispose of, other than storing it as far away from people as possible.
Cooper Young
With diesels the soot falls to the ground..
Caleb Nelson
>got it right
Big ICE engines can have a COE of 40something %... Your little car engine will struggle to even reach 30%.
And with big powerplants you can install scrubbers, filters and other equipment at which point you'll only be releasing CO2 (and water vapor).
Nolan Sanchez
>drive diesel in cities
>loud and garbage air quality
>drive electric cars in cities
>put power plants in the middle of nowhere
>quiet and good urban air quality
I mean, it's still not going to stop the suspected climate change, but at least it's something to improve life quality. Also the bottom line emissions of electric cars can be lowered further by different power sources like renewable or nuclear.
Daniel Turner
Electric cars are the future but they aren't green. Modern vehicles are made to be disposable and garner as much in dealership repairs as possible as soon as the warranties run out on them.