The daybreak of the environmental disaster of the e-vehicle battery … Discarded sooner than anticipated – make up for it?
From the NoTricksZone
By P Gosselin on April 17, 2021
Everything begins to dawn on the greens: the impending environmental catastrophe of the e-vehicle batteries.
When it comes to lithium-ion e-vehicles and the environmentally conscious greens and profiteers:
- You know it’s a disaster.
- We know it’s a disaster.
- They know we know it’s a disaster.
- But they still pretend it isn’t. *
The enormous environmental problems of e-cars arise
Now it is starting to dawn on the greens: they have a colossal environmental problem in the works – a problem they were warned about long ago and which they refused to believe was real because of their vision of a green Utopia collides.
The Greens play it down and hope for solutions
The moment they downplay it, solutions will be found in good time to avert the environmental problem of the lithium-ion battery. But they are clearly getting restless as the astronomical dimensions of the problem of making 200 million lithium-ion car batteries – and disposing of them later – become undeniable.
Expert: “Urgent environmental problem”
Not so long ago, Nobel Prize-winning Japanese chemist and lithium battery researcher Akira Yoshino warned that recycling solutions for these batteries were urgently needed and that it was becoming “an urgent environmental problem.”
Huge mess for the next generations
E-vehicle batteries that have reached their intended use in e-vehicles after around 8 years can be reused for other purposes with lower demand – a so-called second life – such as a home battery. But recycling is inevitable – and it’s complicated, energy-intensive, and expensive. Nobody knows how many are actually currently being recycled or just being thrown in the landfill.
We’re creating a huge, costly mess for generations to come.
Land in the trash “prematurely “
Worse still, Claudia Scholz from Handelsblatt reports that e-vehicle batteries are increasingly ending up in the garbage – and “prematurely”. “The e-car problem: tHouses of tons of batteries end up in the garbage prematurely. “
Thousands of tons of batteries already
The Handelsblatt reports that Matthias Schmidt, managing director of the recycling company Erlos, is “amazed”.
“Actually, his industry had expected to be inundated with batteries from recently produced electric cars in eight or ten years,” writes the Handelsblatt. “In fact, thousands of tons of batteries are already ending up at waste disposal companies.”
“We would never have imagined the amounts that would accumulate after such a short time,” says Schmidt. His company and his competitor Duesenfeld alone, both of whom specialize in recycling car batteries, will recycle more than 4,000 tons of batteries from almost all e-models this year – including those recently launched. “
The dangerous half-knowledge of the green central planners
But it is the same with these self-anointed masterminds who have been immunized at their universities against the understanding of the dangers of their partial knowledge. What follows is how disastrous left-wing ideas take their course:
- They believe it’s a brilliant idea
- Ignore signs and warnings, disaster has occurred
- Downplay the disaster as soon as it shows up
- Acknowledge the disaster, but insist that solutions come
- Move the goal posts if the solution doesn’t arrive
- Deny the disaster no matter what. But if you can’t:
- Then admit that there is a disaster
- And then you insist it was never your idea to start with
- Hope it will be forgotten
- If they don’t, blame others
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* A variation on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s original quote: “We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know that they are lying, we also know that they know that we know that they are also lie, of course they know that we know for sure, that they know, that we know that they are lying too, but they still lie.
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