Comment on YSK Coal plants hurt kids' brains, especially poor kids who are forced to live nearby
dan@upvote.au 1 week ago
I was arguing with someone on another social media site because they were posting this nonsense about EVs being horrible for the environment because all the power comes from coal.
Turns out they live in Houston, where 92% of power generation is renewable. lol.
Even across the whole USA, coal is only 16% of power production. www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 days ago
ICE vehicles are at best 30% efficient, Coal power is at best 45% efficient. Even with transmission and motor losses, that’s still pretty close to net even, but completely excludes the energy and environmental cost of refining crude into petroleum, where coal is burned largely as-is.
So we’d still be better off moving to EVs even if it was all in a vacuum with 100% coal power and we weren’t already replacing coal with renewables.
dan@upvote.au 6 days ago
This is also something I mentioned to them, but some people just don’t like facts and logic.