Comment on YSK Coal plants hurt kids' brains, especially poor kids who are forced to live nearby
ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 days agoICE 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.