Today in Global Warming Hysteria
17th October 2022
Climate change exposes lack of US preparedness in defending Arctic Ocean interests, US senator says (CNN)
La Niña winter will feel like a tundra — without the snowy wonderlands (N.Y. Post)
More than 80 percent of the U.S. is facing troubling dry conditions (Washington Post)
Climate change: Can an enormous seaweed farm help curb it? (BBC)
California Passed a Landmark Law About Plastic Pollution. Why Are Some Environmentalists Still Concerned? (Inside Climate News)
Here’s How The Ocean is Being Harnessed as a Climate Solution (TIME)
Endangered species protections kick in too late, study finds (CNBC)
Japan Considers Removing 60 Year Limit On Nuclear Plant Operations
The Real “Existential Threat” To People and Planet
If You Don’t Already Live in a Sponge City, You Will Soon (Wired ‘Science’)
Monday Mirthiness: Mickey Mann Plays The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Wash Post: Climate Change Makes People Mean
Battery Tech Breakthrough: 10-Minute Charge Time Paves Way for Mass Adoption of Affordable Electric Car Sorry, but I don’t believe it.
Sad: Climate Activists Vandalize A Jackson Pollock But No One Notices (Babylon Bee)
Another day, another EV Battery Fire
Extreme Cold May Trigger Power Blackouts Across New England On the other hand, they’ve got plenty of trees to burn.
October 18th, 2022 at 18:42
Re the alleged 5 minute charge car battery: No, I don’t believe it either. I have a general background in basic electricity and electronics. Early in 2021 I briefly had some interest in EVs and did some reading and basic computations. Even if such a battery existed, it would require a huge current draw to charge even the smaller battery so quickly. This is of course technically possible, but not with your existing home wiring. You’d be, roughly, asking 1 1/2 days’ average electric usage to pass through wires in only 5 minutes. There is no way existing wiring could handle that. Even if the home wiring could, the grid outside is nowhere capable of supplying such high, short-term currents (to normal homes and businesses.)
The magic battery faces significant reality barriers of its own. Although my knowledge of physics is rather weak, the challenges in keeping such a rapid charge battery cool would be very difficult. Even if that nickel film is in the battery, the heat still has to be sent to a heat sink to radiate the unwanted heat. I’m no chemist, but at the claimed charge rates, the last problem that battery will have is being too cold!
No, the whole thing doesn’t pass the “smell test” in the least. There are technical reasons why it can take many hours to charge a battery. Yes, if you make the battery 1/3 the capacity, you cut the charge time proportionally too. EVs sound good in theory; the battery is by far the weak link in the chain. And even if a “magic battery” could be devised, there would be hard limits upon how rapidly the grid can deliver it energy.