“Seek Yahweh while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him. Turn to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55: 6-7
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The Total Cost of Electric Vehicles is Much Higher Than Most People Realize
Every morning, I walk on the road in front of my house. It winds along the shoreline of Lake Hartwell. Several days a week about a mile from my house, I cross paths with a couple of other people who walk every day. One of them is in his early-80s. He retired from Duke Energy.
A few weeks ago, the Duke Energy retiree told me that he had calculated what it would cost to upgrade the U.S. electricity grid to accommodate electric cars. According to him, the cost of supplying power to the homes of people who own electric cars will be extraordinarily high.
At the end of this SnyderTalk editorial, there is a Facebook post that I copied. It talks about a small piece of the problem with electric cars, the neighborhood problem. There are more than 70,000 neighborhoods in the U.S. To accommodate electric vehicles on a large scale, every one of those neighborhoods would need to be rewired, and the houses in those neighborhoods would need to be rewired, too.
It will cost an incredible amount of money to provide the electric service that electric vehicles require. The cost is so high that electric vehicles on a large scale can be ruled out as an option for the U.S. and every other country. That means companies like Tesla are dinosaurs. They may be young companies, but they are obsolete already, and they are just beginning to burden our already overtaxed electricity grid.
Wind energy is expensive and unreliable. So is solar energy. Hydrogen is a much better option. So is natural gas. I’m telling you this so that you can adjust to reality before it hits you in the face.
Investing in Tesla and companies like it is not a good long-term strategy. If you have invested in them, you need to think about an exit strategy. When the hoopla is over, many investors will lose big time. If they don’t change their basic philosophies, all of those companies will fail when reality sinks in. Many of today’s expensive electric vehicles will become what we call “yard art” in the South, and it will be expensive yard art.
There are 2 side costs of electric vehicles that are not being considered carefully. They should be explored in depth:
- Lithium battery disposal: High concentrations of lithium can cause severe damage to the human nervous system, kidneys, and endocrine system. That means lithium waste can’t be allowed to leech into our underground water supply.
- Fossil fuels are needed to produce electricity for electric vehicles. Producing more electricity to charge lithium batteries means burning more fossil fuel. In other words, zero carbon emissions from electric vehicles doesn’t mean zero carbon emissions. Electric vehicles simply push carbon emissions to electricity producers.
There is much more to switching to electric vehicles than meets the eye.
Hydrogen-Powered and Natural Gas-Powered Vehicles
Hydrogen-powered and natural gas-powered vehicles are much better options than electric vehicles. That’s what the data tells us.
You have been warned. The cost of making a mistake will be very expensive.
This is my advice: If you want to switch from gasoline-powered vehicles, don’t buy an electric car. Hydrogen-powered and natural gas-powered vehicles are much better and less expensive.
By the way, hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and on Earth. Earth’s oceans cover roughly 70% of Earth’s surface, and the average ocean depth is roughly 2 miles. The exhaust from hydrogen combustion is pure water, and hydrogen combustion is no more dangerous than gasoline combustion.
A couple of the side benefits from learning to produce hydrogen on a large scale:
- Desalinating vast quantities of ocean water for human consumption.
- Learning to harvest the minerals in ocean water economically.
The Mineral Makeup of Seawater
The mineral makeup of seawater in order in order from most to least:
| ELEMENT | MOLECULAR WEIGHT | PPM IN SEAWATER | MOLAR CONCENTRATION |
| Chloride | 35.4 | 18980 | 0.536158 |
| Sodium | 23 | 10561 | 0.459174 |
| Magnesium | 24.3 | 1272 | 0.052346 |
| Sulfur | 32 | 884 | 0.027625 |
| Calcium | 40 | 400 | 0.01 |
| Potassium | 39.1 | 380 | 0.009719 |
| Bromine | 79.9 | 65 | 0.000814 |
| Carbon (inorganic) | 12 | 28 | 0.002333 |
| Strontium | 87.6 | 13 | 0.000148 |
| Boron | 10.8 | 4.6 | 0.000426 |
| Silicon | 28.1 | 4 | 0.000142 |
| Carbon (organic) | 12 | 3 | 0.00025 |
| Aluminum | 27 | 1.9 | 0.00007 |
| Fluorine | 19 | 1.4 | 0.000074 |
| N as nitrate | 14 | 0.7 | 0.00005 |
| Nitrogen (organic) | 14 | 0.2 | 0.000014 |
| Rubidium | 85 | 0.2 | 0.0000024 |
| Lithium | 6.9 | 0.1 | 0.000015 |
| P as Phosphate | 31 | 0.1 | 0.0000032 |
| Copper | 63.5 | 0.09 | 0.0000014 |
| Barium | 137 | 0.05 | 0.00000037 |
| Iodine | 126.9 | 0.05 | 0.00000039 |
| N as nitrite | 14 | 0.05 | 0.0000036 |
| N as ammonia | 14 | 0.05 | 0.0000036 |
| Arsenic | 74.9 | 0.024 | 0.00000032 |
| Iron | 55.8 | 0.02 | 0.00000036 |
| P as organic | 31 | 0.016 | 0.00000052 |
| Zinc | 65.4 | 0.014 | 0.00000021 |
| Manganese | 54.9 | 0.01 | 0.00000018 |
| Lead | 207.2 | 0.005 | 0.000000024 |
| Selenium | 79 | 0.004 | 0.000000051 |
| Tin | 118.7 | 0.003 | 0.000000025 |
| Cesium | 132.9 | 0.002 | 0.000000015 |
| Molybdenum | 95.9 | 0.002 | 0.000000021 |
| Uranium | 238 | 0.0016 | 0.0000000067 |
| Gallium | 69.7 | 0.0005 | 0.0000000072 |
| Nickel | 58.7 | 0.0005 | 0.0000000085 |
| Thorium | 232 | 0.0005 | 0.0000000022 |
| Cerium | 140 | 0.0004 | 0.0000000029 |
| Vanadium | 50.9 | 0.0003 | 0.0000000059 |
| Lanthanum | 139.9 | 0.0003 | 0.0000000022 |
| Yttrium | 88.9 | 0.0003 | 0.0000000034 |
| Mercury | 200.6 | 0.0003 | 0.0000000015 |
| Silver | 107.9 | 0.0003 | 0.0000000028 |
| Bismuth | 209 | 0.0002 | 0.00000000096 |
| Cobalt | 58.9 | 0.0001 | 0.0000000017 |
| Gold | 197 | 0.000008 | 0.00000000004 |
Source: Stanford University.
To give you some idea what the minerals in seawater are worth, consider gold. Gold is the least abundant mineral in seawater. Even so, seawater contains more than 20 million tons of gold. At today’s gold price, that’s roughly $771 trillion worth of gold. So far in Earth’s history, we have discovered just 244,000 tons of gold. To put that in perspective, we have about 100 times more gold in seawater than we have discovered in Earth’s history.
Developing hydrogen technology will produce tremendous side benefits.
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REALITY CHECK: At a neighborhood BBQ I was talking to a neighbor, a BC Hydro Executive. I asked him how that renewable thing was doing. He laughed, then got serious “If you really intend to adopt electric vehicles, you have to face certain realities.”
“For example, a home charging system for a Tesla requires 75-amp service. The average house is equipped with 100-amp service. On our small street (approximately 25 homes), the electrical infrastructure would be unable to carry more than three houses with a single Tesla each. For even half the homes to have electric vehicles, the system would be wildly over-loaded. This is the elephant in the room with electric vehicles. Our residential infrastructure cannot bear the load.”
So, as our genius elected officials promote this nonsense, not only are we being urged to buy these things and replace our reliable, cheap generating systems with expensive new windmills and solar cells, but we will also have to renovate our entire delivery system! This later “investment” will not be revealed until we’re so far down this dead-end road that it will be presented with an ‘OOPS…!’ and a shrug.
Eric test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors and he writes, “For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.” Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9-gallon gas tank and the 16-kwh battery is approximately 270 miles.
It will take you 4.5 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip, your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery. The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned, so I looked up what I pay for electricity.
I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh. 16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery. $18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery. Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that gets only 32 mpg. $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 Mpg = $0.10 per mile.
The gasoline powered car costs about $25,000 while the Volt costs $46,000 plus. So, the Government wants us to pay twice as much for a car, that costs more than seven times as much to run and takes three times longer to drive across the country.
WAKE UP NORTH AMERICA!!!!!!!
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“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me — just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father — and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. The reason My Father loves Me is that I lay down My life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.”
John 10: 14-18
