Joe biden spent some time away from his basement to travel across the country to push for an end to climate change.
This two-note song President – COVID masks being one – climate change being one, clearly has limited mental abilities; he is unable to concentrate on more than two things at the same time.
On the climate change issue,
biden has a dirty habit of catering to Leftists and deluded activists whose
loud voices are being quenched with inane policies guaranteed to only ruin
Biden’s push for electric vehicles has contorted Ford, Chevy, and Cadillac into promising an all-electric vehicle line-up within a few short years.
By way of background, electric vehicles (EV) are those powered by “renewable” energy and are supposed to be friendly to the environment.
Many EV proponents are just as mentally simplistically wired as President Nitwit. They latched onto a brilliant idea of drawing energy from the Sun, which was likely taught to them in first grade, and reinforced throughout their mediocre scholastic existence.
This type of renewable energy is not new. When I was in elementary school in the 1950’s and ‘60’s, a classmate named Kevin often used solar power to amaze the rest of us at every – EVERY – science fair.
He dutifully lugged into class a piece of wood onto which was mounted a solar panel, flashlight bulb, and miniature electric motor. Kevin was able to point out how when exposed to light, the energy from the solar panel made the bulb shine, or the motor turn, with a flick of a switch. Those solar panels use photovoltaic energy to convert light into energy.
Magic, it was, to six-year olds. But after years of this tired dog-and-pony-show, we realized Kevin was relying on present-day scientific advances to actually get us to stop yawning. And each science fair gave us the same promise of “the future.” But I digress.
Renewable energy comes in many shapes and types and seem promising, at least on the surface. Since 1960, we experienced rechargeable battery powered devices introduced in the form of flashlights, calculators, and cordless phones. In fact, the battery in your gasoline powered vehicle is rechargeable in order to restart your car, once again. So, recharging batteries is nothing new.
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| Early solar panel exhibit |
But it is the battery that is important to renewable power – be it a home system or EV – that relies upon electricity for anything. Houses use solar power to harness energy to operate everything from refrigerators to air conditioners to televisions.
An EV relies on electricity to propel it along the roads. However, rather than using a 110-mile extension cord, an EV uses batteries in which to store that precious electricity.
Since the days of Kevin, society has been introduced to many new and exciting discoveries in the photovoltaic world. Yes, after only 70-years, we now have EVs that can be plugged in to a modified electric outlet to recharge them for the next leg of your trip.
In actuality, EVs travel only as far as its batteries allow. Other factors of EV distance include on-board appliances such as: lights, heater, and drain from the air conditioner, radio, heated seats, and weight.
Weight appears to be the big killer of electricity use in vehicles. That would include trucks; pickup trucks, semis, and any vehicle towing anything; boats, utility trailers, and campers are included.
The latest battery answer to these problems is a lithium battery. Lithium batteries have been around for a decade, or so, and maintain a solid charge quicker and longer that older nickel cadmium batteries.
All would seem well if the Panderer-in-Chief wasn’t so beholding to his loud-mouthed constituents. It’s those self-important environmentalists that have been desperately trying to “save the planet” by introducing lawsuits, protests, and roadblocks to our natural resources.
The shallow-thinking environmentalists have targeted the Rhyolite Ridge lithium mine for legal action, in an attempt to stop Australian mining company Ioneer, from damaging the habitat where the Tiehm’s Buckwheat plant, lives.
Of course, a petition to save this plant would mean the ultimate shut-down of rechargeable battery lithium from being extracted, was filed. This brilliant effort to limit access to long-range batteries to protect the planet will create a long-term bottleneck to hurt the planet.
That’s quite a conundrum. President Nitwit fails to see the link from lithium to energy efficiency, and his equally hapless constituents fail to see anything outside their narrow-minded attacks on anything and everything involving a shovel and ingenuity.
These smarmy tactics were used decades ago with the snail darter fish and the spotted owl. It is time to tell these professional whiners to pick a side. Clean energy, or no energy.
Don’t make me call Kevin.
