Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previously thought

Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @07:37PM (#26574522)

This is still a win: it’s easier to replace one centralized fossil fuel burner than a bunch of cars.

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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by megablast on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:19PM (#26574894)

Even when you take into account the huge environmental cost of those batteries??

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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @09:06PM (#26575330)

What huge envrironmental cost of batteries?

Australia mines >50% of the world's lithium and 1% of worlds oil, and for them oil pollutes more

And lithium is recycled, oil is not.

Oil is a biohazard, we had massive oil spills wich posioned areas as large as fukushima exclusion zone. Pour barrel of oil in a forest, and everything dies

How many lithium spills were there? Zero. If you sprincle lithium in a forest, nothing happens.

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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @08:23PM (#26574929)

I don’t know enough about the battery supply chain: but, generally speaking, centralizing problems often makes it easier to fix them by giving maximizing the leverage of improvements.

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Re:Pollution from fossil fuel combustion deadlier than previ... by adrianN on Thursday March 25, 2021 @02:18AM (#26577055)

Gasoline doesn't just magically appear at the pump. Oil extraction has huge environmental costs too.

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