Environment & Energy

...now experiencing.

Electricity is a thermodynamically degraded form of energy, still overwhelmingly made, world wide, from the combustion of dangerous fossil fuels.

I recently referred to a paper showing that on my grid, PJM, an electric car is worse than a straight up gasoline car, since the gasoline car uses a dangerous fossil fuel directly without exergy destruction for the intermediate step of making electricity.

A paper addressing the idea that electric cars are "green."

The graphic therein, from the paper, is straight forward to read.

Like the long running (half a century) hydrogen scam being run interminably, with recent examples here, it's a shell game, designed to avoid facing the reality that shell games only make things worse.

This is should not be a political issue, but rather a technical one. The electricity grid isn't going to magically become independent of fossil fuels without some serious public understanding that the laws of thermodynamics are inviolable and are not up for debate and that reactionary thinking, like wishful thinking, does not change reality.