Oddbean new post about login | logout Transitions are hard and painful ... A new electric vehicle battery factory in Kansas is demanding so much #energy⚡️that the state is delaying the retirement of a coal plant to make sure the facility has enough power https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/09/22/ev-battery-factory-will-require-so-much-energy-it-needs-a-coal-plant-to-power-it/ #zeitgeist
@aff773f4 That is actually a concise and truthful article. If you account for the resources needed across the full supply chain for most high tech solutions, you will run into similar problems. We run much like a ponzi scheme where we have been duped into thinking that kilowatts *do* fall out of the sky. Eventually this will all unfold and be apparent. A graphs: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country An article: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.7b04573