Truth about “green energy”
Let’s clear the air, about electric tractors, cars, or any other machine that uses a battery to provide power for movement…
Batteries don’t make electricity. Batteries store electricity.
Stored electricity, that was generated by burning coal, natural gas, oil, using nuclear or hydroelectric.. Batteries do not make electricity.
A battery in an electric car, let’s say an average Tesla, is made of about 25 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic… One thousand pounds of minerals, that had to be mined, and processed, into a battery, that stores electricity….. generated by oil, gas, coal, or water…
That is the truth, about the lie of “green” energy.
I learned in school, when the truth was still being taught, that energy can neither be created nor destroyed – only converted from one form of energy to another.
Fire is a conversion of chemical energy into thermal via a chemical reaction that combines the molecules in fuel with oxygen from the air to create water and carbon dioxide. It releases energy in the form of heat and light.
A generator converts kinetic energy into electromagnetic energy by passing wires and magnets across each other to make electrons flow through a wire.
In 2021, the highest-performing PV panels on the market for residential use clocked in at 22.8% efficiency.
A battery converts chemical energy into electrical energy.
Each time we convert energy from one form to another, a large portion of it is lost to heat.
Robert Fliegler
