Re:Life Cycle Energy Consumption and GH Gas Emissions from L...
by ZeroGravitas on Friday June 16, 2017 @02:36AM
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The real tl;dr is the same as all of these reports:
Stop using coal. Introduce a carbon fee.
Charging electric cars in certain states causes pollution? Stop using coal power plants!
The electricity for making batteries causes pollution? Stop using coal power plants!
A thousand other little industrial processes dump carbon into the atmosphere as it is an uncosted externality from their perspective? Carbon fee aligns everyone's incentives.
The weird hyperfocus on anything vaguely green is absurd when the whole of modern society is running on those same coal plants and carbon squandering.
Stop using coal. Introduce a carbon fee.
Charging electric cars in certain states causes pollution? Stop using coal power plants!
The electricity for making batteries causes pollution? Stop using coal power plants!
A thousand other little industrial processes dump carbon into the atmosphere as it is an uncosted externality from their perspective? Carbon fee aligns everyone's incentives.
The weird hyperfocus on anything vaguely green is absurd when the whole of modern society is running on those same coal plants and carbon squandering.