There are eight billion of us on the planet and most of us strive for lifestyles of affluence, consumption, and mobility. We buy what we want and we go where we want to go.
These capitalistic-driven, hedonistic desires consume non-renewable energy and non-renewable mineral resources. If left unchecked, our consumption and mobility desires will deprive future generations of sufficient quantities of these resources.
This is not news.
However, rather than moderating our consumption habits, we have gratefully accepted a get-out-of-jail-free card. We have been led to believe that our overindulgence can be countered by making a shift to electric vehicles. We have also been led to believe that adopting electric vehicles is a solution to the climate change crisis. Guided by academia and elitist groups such as the IPCC, the World Economic Forum, and the Club of Rome, our elected officials have embraced this panacea for our collective guilt.
Unfortunately, the primary cause of climate change is the cyclical patterns in the Earth’s orbital eccentricity, its tilt axis, and its rotational spin. Mankind is not responsible for creating these cycles; nor can mankind change them.
The electric vehicle strategy is not only misguided-it is dangerous. As this book explains, the electric car strategy not only is gobbling up our resources, it ignores the Laws of Thermodynamics-it takes energy to make energy. The energy to charge an electric vehicle battery has to come from somewhere. There is no free lunch.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Introduction
Symbols and Units Glossary
1 – Mankind Learns to Store Energy (Leyden Jars – Voltaic Piles – Daniell Cells – Plante and Junger – Thomas Edison – The Modern Lead Acid Battery)
2 – Electric Vehicles Lose the First Mobility Race (The Gasoline-Powered Internal Combustion Engine – Steam Power Created By Burning Kerosene – Electric Power – Rock Oil – Texas Booms – Henry Ford Takes Note – No More Cranking)
3 – Electric Vehicles Try Again (OPEC Flexes Its Muscles – The Automakers Respond)
4 – Hydrogen: The Ovshinsky Answer to Energy Storage (The Ni MH Battery – The China Rare Earth Metal Problem)
5 – The Brains Behind Better Batteries (Whittington and Titanium Disulfide – Goodenough and Lithium-Manganese Oxide – Goodenough, Padhi and Lithium Iron Phosphate – Yoshino and Lithium-Cobalt Oxide – The Nobel Prize)
6 – The Club of Rome (The Peccei Story – The Club of Rome – Jurgen Randers)
7 – The Carrying Capacity Issue (Malthus – IPAT Model – Kaya Identity)
8 – The World Economic Forum
9 – Randers Issues Another Warning
10 – The IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme – IPCC)
11 – ZEV Takes Charge (California and ZEV – China – European Union (E.U.) – Canada – A Bumpy Road Ahead?)
12 – The Elon Musk Factor
13 – The Carbon Cycle (Intake and Release – Unbalanced)
14 – Climate Change is Cyclical (Milankovitch – Interglacial Periods)
15 – The Basic Design of a Lithium-ion Battery
16 – Battery Materials and Design Iterations (Nasty Chemicals – Battery Cells – Pouch Design – Battery Cells – Cylindrical Design – The 18650 Cylindrical Design – 2170 Cylindrical Design – Prismatic Design – 4680 Cylindrical Design – Cathode Materials – NCA and NCM Cathode Designs - Material Used in the 4680 Design – Material Used in the 18650 Design – LFP Batteries)
17 – New Designs. Better Batteries? (The Sodium Battery – The Solid State Battery)
18 Battery Metals – Where From? (Layers – Plates)
19 Battery Metals – Will We Have Enough? (Cobalt – Peak Cobalt? – Nickel – Sulfide Ores – Laterite Ores – Peak Nickel? – Manganese – Peak Manganese? – Copper – Peak Copper? – Lithium – Hard Rock Lithium – Hard Rock Processing – Clay Lithium Deposits – Clay Deposit Processing – Salar Lithium – Salar Lithium Processing – Lithium From Abandoned Oil Wells – Peak Lithium? – Silver – Rare Earth Metals)
20 – There Is No Free Lunch (First Law of Thermodynamics – Second Law of Thermodynamics)
21 – Electricity from the Wind?
22 – Electric versus Internal Combustion (A Numerical Example to Make Sense of it All)
23 – Vehicles Powered by Hydrogen Fuel Cells? (Steam Reforming – Partial Oxidation – Electrolysis of Water)
24 – Natural Gas to Power Vehicles?
25 – Electricity from Nuclear Power?
26 – Electricity from the Sun?
27 – Food for Fuel?
28 – Recycling of Battery Metals
29 – What is Not Being Talked About (The Automakers are Losing Money – Apple Scraps Project Titan – The Walls Are Going Up – Collision Safety – Vehicle Weight – The Economics of Battery Charging – Driving Range – Tesla Driving Range Controversy – Insurance and Registration – General Motors Kicks the EV Down the Road – What is Being Said in Washington – TESLA Misses)
Conclusion
Notes
About the Author
Sobre o autor
Malcolm Bucholtz holds an Engineering degree from Queen’s University, and both an MBA and a M.Sc. degree from Heriot Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland). Malcolm is a researcher and author of more than 20 books on geopolitics, science, and the financial markets. Malcolm lives in the small farming community of Mossbank, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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