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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by marcyb5st on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:41AM (#35356380)
Power plants are more efficient than engines crammed within the trunk of a car. They have no limitations in space and weight and so you can do fancy things like heat recovery (you use the exhaust to pre-heat your fuel mix or reuse said heat for nearby industries), always have the combustion chamber at the best temperature for efficiency, ... . Plus, you can install much better filtration systems for combustion byproducts.

All in all, if everyone would transition to an EV you would see a noticeable drop in oil consumption thanks to the mentioned benefits.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by AstralStorm on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:47AM (#35356465)
It is also much easier to integrate any renewables or other power sources for that.

The big problem is mining the battery metals, involving worst kind of worker exploitation and danger, which is why we need ethically sourced nickel-sodium (also known as sodium-ion) tech to catch up with lithium-cobalt.

That's not going to happen under capitalism though.

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by beepbooptheory on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:13AM (#35358445)
Got it, that all makes sense. I know its certainly got to be an improvement, I guess I just thought it was more qualified an improvement than it is! Even if still highly tied to geography I guess.

We should definitely take what improvements we can get!

(Also, sorry for injecting stupidity into the discourse in general. I didn't mean to anger people or say something wrong.)

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Re:Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage by marcyb5st on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:47AM (#35358953)
No problem. I am actually happy you asked instead of remaining convinced of your ideas.

I think if you and others ask these questions it means that there's room for improvement in how we should discuss EVs and renewables!

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