I've read the science, too. I must confess to being a bit fed up with teenage Swedes telling me to listen to the scientists without telling me which ones. I get the distinct impression that her and her unthinking ilk only want us to listen to the ones they agree with, though. I've just read a paper explaining why the infrastructure to maintain a totally electric future is beyond reach, even with science fiction technology.
I've just read, too about he stupidity of all the green doomsayers going on about fossil fuels when tyres don't get a mention. Consider.... every car has four tyres each beginning with 14mm of useful tread. We get rid of them when there's 1.6mm left. Now, ask the question, where does the 12.4mm of rubber go?
We can see that some of it burns off as smoke when we lose traction by the injudicious use of power. It smells nice, looks good and leaves a smug grin but the enjoyment is mostly felt by the tyre manufacturers. However, tyre smoke is totally insignificant and most cars are unable to put enough power through the driven wheels anyway. We don't see clouds of rubber wafting about and apart from shredded lorry tyres lying along the motorway we don't see any other rubber anywhere. But it has to go somewhere.
We hear of micro plastic inhabiting even the deepest oceans, that's not empty drinks bottles or bacon packets from Tescos, is it? Could it be over a century of tyre rubber? After all, our tyres disappear, the rain washes the roads, the water is collected in drains and eventually ends up all at sea. Tyre wear is so gradual that we only notice it once the tyre is worn out and I doubt that there is a water filtration plant in the world that can remove the naturally worn tyre rubber particles from the water passing through. Strange that no one ever mentions it. Strange too, that no one ever mentions the weight of cars After all the weight largely determines tyre wear. Thus volume for volume a petrol engined car is likely to be lighter than a diesel and batteries, well? Lifted any electric motors recently? Ever noticed how large the tyres on a Tesla are?
Sorry that was a bit of a rant but that's nothing to how stupid we are over beefburgers. Give up meat say the vegans, its cruel to keep animals for food, they say. Eat plants. They say this whilst walking their dogs. Get rid of dogs and cats and you could reduce cattle by well over 30%, look at every dog, every cat and think, there's a tin of cow every day for the life of the dog or cat on average. Thats a lot of cows feeding the cats and dogs that litter our world. So, get rid of the dogs and cats, working ones excepted, of course and we'd do a great deal to combat climate change at a stroke and I could still enjoy beefburgers. Excellent. It would also get rid of the autumnal harvest of black bags left in every hedge along every path in this country, too. Result.
Whilst I'm on about these vegan types, have they considered how plants grow? I only ask as I read recently that every inch of mature topsoil took 500 years to mature. The best fertiliser is dung so farm animals help there. Plants take nutrients out, animals put it back. Rotate crops and animals, job done, environmentally most friendly.
Ditch the animals and make us all eat plant based concoctions and eventually we'd need artificial fertilisers. Insecticides, too if we needed sustained volumes as well. Seems to me thousands of years of farmers farming actually knew what they were doing after all. Todays moaning evangelical vegan may just end up destroying the very planet they all seem so eager to save. Makes me wonder how we ever managed to get to 2020 without adopting their ideals. Maybe we just thought about things with a grain of intelligence applied to knowledge as opposed to mindlessly adopting the current fad. No worries, though, it'll be something else next week.
Anyway, an electric BMW arrived today.
I know a soon to be 4yr old who'll love it.
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