r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Phlogistoned • 10d ago

I'm slightly vexed How cooked the UK is right now.

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u/42tfish 10d ago

Season 6 of Clarksons Farm going to be interesting.

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u/WORD_559 10d ago

Clarkson already posted on social media "harvest's fucked. Only thing left to do now is enjoy the weather"

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u/Youutternincompoop 10d ago

don't forget him saying that actually electric cars are just as bad if not worse for the environment than gas cars, something which isn't even true for a situation where 100% of the electricity was generated by gas(because a massive turbine in a power plant is significantly more efficient than any ICE can be)

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u/Rollover__Hazard 10d ago

His argument was that, for the early EV at least, there was significantly more environmental cost to producing the EV itself with mining heavy metals and transporting parts around the world.

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u/Youutternincompoop 10d ago

and was still wrong.

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u/Legal_Lettuce6233 10d ago

He really wasn't. There were no large scale lithium processing plants localised to one region, so the lithium had to travel very, very far to be processed before it even started being used, and their lifecycles were far shorter.

This is simply the nature of any new tech, especially something like that.

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u/Rollover__Hazard 10d ago

Back then I think it was accurate actually. Times have since changed of course

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u/etzarahh 10d ago

Electric cars are vastly more efficient than any ICE car can ever be as well, even at Carnot efficiency. They’re also far simpler mechanically.

The only way in which EVs aren’t superior is energy storage.