A lot of the ethanol added to petrol is made from Maize, grown in many places, including the US and Britain.
To be fair do the sumsThe UK had about 50% renewable electricity generation now, and that's increasing daily.
Industrial power generation from gas is actually very efficient, over 90% efficient, which is some 40% more efficient than the most efficient diesel internal combustion engine.
A new EV will do the equivalent of 130 MPG or more, so they are way more efficient than an equivalent ICE vehicle.
A VW ID3 is carbon neutral at 30k miles, an equivalent diesel VW Golf will never be carbon neutral, as it's only capable of burning fossil fuel.
A VW ID3 can be run on 100% renewable electricity, a diesel car can't so which is greener?
The battery argument is irrelevant, as new EV batteries will last 20 years or more, and there's no shortage of lithium for them anyway, the sea has billions of tonnes of easy to access lithium, more than enough for hundreds of billions of EV batteries. Cobalt is being fazed out of battery production, but the point is mute anyway, as the oil industry uses huge quantities of Cobalt in the production of fossil fuels.
The fossil fuel industry is also responsible for more damage to the natural environment than any other industry, yet nobody seems to care about the damage to huge areas of land destroyed oil exploration or polluted by oil spills, or how about the millions of tonnes of oil spilled into the ocean every year.
Environmental damage caused by electric vehicle production pails into insignificance by comparison to the destruction that the oil industry creates in its wake.
There's no way around it, going electric is a greener choice, it's just not a cheap choice, at least not at the moment.
Why bother? Just get an electric car.
When quoting efficiency, you need to take into account UHT transmission line losses which can be considerable, step up/step down transformer losses and for BEV's rectification losses to charge the battery and then inverter losses to drive the motor which is AC.The UK had about 50% renewable electricity generation now, and that's increasing daily.
Industrial power generation from gas is actually very efficient, over 90% efficient, which is some 40% more efficient than the most efficient diesel internal combustion engine.
A new EV will do the equivalent of 130 MPG or more, so they are way more efficient than an equivalent ICE vehicle.
A VW ID3 is carbon neutral at 30k miles, an equivalent diesel VW Golf will never be carbon neutral, as it's only capable of burning fossil fuel.
A VW ID3 can be run on 100% renewable electricity, a diesel car can't so which is greener?
The battery argument is irrelevant, as new EV batteries will last 20 years or more, and there's no shortage of lithium for them anyway, the sea has billions of tonnes of easy to access lithium, more than enough for hundreds of billions of EV batteries. Cobalt is being fazed out of battery production, but the point is mute anyway, as the oil industry uses huge quantities of Cobalt in the production of fossil fuels.
The fossil fuel industry is also responsible for more damage to the natural environment than any other industry, yet nobody seems to care about the damage to huge areas of land destroyed oil exploration or polluted by oil spills, or how about the millions of tonnes of oil spilled into the ocean every year.
Environmental damage caused by electric vehicle production pails into insignificance by comparison to the destruction that the oil industry creates in its wake.
There's no way around it, going electric is a greener choice, it's just not a cheap choice, at least not at the moment.
A lot of renewably generated electricity doesn't actually go into the UHT network, because the power sources tend to be smaller and more widely distributed geographically, the power can be distributed direct to the charging points on the 11Kva three phase lines.
There are still transmission line losses and transformer losses.
There are, and it does. But not to nearly such a great extent as with the old style centralised generation.
I'll take your silence to mean "No" then.
Fair enough. I use solar for battery charging and in the past on my boat, too expensive since Chinese imports were stopped to put it on the house. I have room for about 9Kw.
Question, corrosion is I presume related to Ethanol being hygroscopic? In which case it would not affect modern plastic fuel lines and tanks.
Not on the P38, but I've seen plenty of evidence of ethanol corrosion on other similarly unsuitable engines, and this is on E10.
Are you telling me that North Sea wind farms do not feed into the national grid?
No, I have no intention of using it, just curious. I have no choice but to run my ancient MR2 on petrol with 5% Ethanol, but Cleveland Discol caused no problems to any of our vehicles in the past. Of course much has changed since my youth in metallurgy and the use of plastics in vehicles not to mention performance. Fortunately all my other vehicles are diesels.
