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Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r... by comicjk on Thursday December 06, 2018 @04:45PM (#18622585)
In its lifetime, that Jeep will dump 100+ tons of CO2 into the atmosphere, which spreads over the entire planet and is near-impossible to concentrate again. The impact of disposal of the car itself - a couple of tons of solids in a particular place - is not even close.

And if we're going to talk about people's irrational thought patterns about the environment... I nominate the idea that landfills matter more than atmosphere dumping, which seems to be based on the fact that landfills are more visible.

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Re:Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, r... by rotexo on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:29PM (#18629559)
Nowhere in your analysis is the fact that the raw materials for these cars have to be mined and refined in a way that currently requires the burning of fossil fuels. It is not just the disposal of the materials themselves that is an issue.
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