• EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think electric cars address climate change Once we stop using coal and gas powerplants

    Cause then all we are doing is shifting it

    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Not true. Large-scale power plants are WAY more efficient at turning fossil fuels into work than internal combustion engines. Even if all electric car power was generated by coal (it’s not, almost half of electricity generation now is nuclear + renewables), electric cars would still have net emissions that are half of gas cars.

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        1 year ago

        Looks at state of world…

        Oh we’re going balls deep in Nuclear my friend. Just not the kind you’re talking about.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not a huge problem. Chernobyl and Five Kilometer Island were old reactor designs, and Fukushima mostly sustained an earthquake+tsunami (it would fully succeed under better corporation oversight)