A Hotter Future Is Certain, but How Hot Is Up to Us.

[mbhangui]

And the jury is still out on EVs..eg the environment cost of mining for battery components and its scalability. Additionally power generation itself is one of the major contributing causes of increase in emissions

The current problem with EV is that the car are charged by burning fossil fuel. So zilch reduction. Either you burn petrol/diesel using non-EV vehicles or you burn coal at the power plant by charging your vehicle.

The only method that will help is by using electricity generated by solar / nuclear energy. However remember that using nuclear energy comes at a tremendous cost of storing lethal spent nuclear fuel.

 

[arj]

The current problem with EV is that the car are charged by burning fossil fuel. So zilch reduction. Either you burn petrol/diesel using non-EV vehicles or you burn coal at the power plant by charging your vehicle.

The only method that will help is by using electricity generated by solar / nuclear energy. However remember that using nuclear energy comes at a tremendous cost of storing lethal spent nuclear fuel.

There is a calculation which shows that efficiency of cola burnt and hence emissions generated per unit is lower for power generation rather than individually in cars for the same amount of energy even taking into account T&D losses. but thats only operational. the actual emissions for mining of Boron etc needed for the Battery impacts a lot more.

Since scope 3 norms deal with cradle to Grave we need to look at batttery and fuel right from the origination from earth for all then components to its final destruction back to earth.
Batteries in its current form as still not there unless we move to mass solar charging and economic reuse back.

Hydrogen theoretically has a far better footprint once we figure out the right way to get green hydrogen. Thats where india will move perhaps unless we get batteries with better tech !

Then there is also fuel cell which have still not reached the promise they made...

 

[rwnano]

Hydrogen has storage problems