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Bernardo de La Paz

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5. That paper is based on current fossil component of electricity production

Reply to NNadir (Reply #4)

Sun Jun 1, 2025, 02:57 PM

Jun 1

Not based on electricity production we will have in the future (presumably mostly nuclear).

If vehicles are condemned based on current electricity production, then there will be no transition and there will only be ICE and hybrids. You are condemning whole classes of vehicles based on current production.

It's a chicken and egg thing. You will not get a sudden switch to electric vehicles at the point where the electric grid crosses a particular threshold of fossil versus nuclear. The groundwork has to be laid so that there is charging infrastructure (for one thing) in place. That means electric vehicles NOW and in increasing numbers as that threshold is approached.

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Oil Lobby's $88 million USD of Rotting Hydrogen Buses; Australian Video on the Oil Lobby's Scam. [View all] NNadir Jun 1 OP

"The speaker praises electric buses, but these are also indirectly - in most cases - fueled by fossil fuels." Bernardo de La Paz Jun 1 #1

I am not "ranting." I'm merely stating a fact, which is that most electricity on this planet, places like France... NNadir Jun 1 #2

No need to beat up on electric busses. Consider the alternative: internal combustion engine busses. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 1 #3

If you read the paper cited in one of my links, you will see that in New Jersey, an electric car is dirtier than... NNadir Jun 1 #4

That paper is based on current fossil component of electricity production Bernardo de La Paz Jun 1 #5

It seems every time we talk, I have to make this remark: "Is" is different that "could." NNadir Jun 1 #6

You don't want an energy transition to nuclear? I thought you did. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 1 #7