This isn't bad, but pumped hydro is way better (704). And both options are way better than the ongoing drilling and mining and combusting required for fossil fuels.
Lithium isn’t mined? Producing large/scale lithium batteries involves large-scale pollution.
Just because an EV being charged emits CO2 today when charged from the grid does not mean that emission wont be reducing over time, it will as the grid power comes increasing from renewable sources. So it is with the production of batteries, PVs and wind turbines a lot of these companies take this as a bootstrapping exercise you have to burn fossil fuels to make the transition but once you do you use the green power to make the next versions with considerably less impact.
I have no idea what kind of destruction it does. But it's an alternative for making people miserable to the point where it's an stochastic genocide, so it must be bad somehow.
Yeah, I see lots of people saying exactly the same, completely seriously, both online and live. What goes on those people head is beyond my capacity to comprehend.
What's really irks me is the other side of the coin, the things that get a "free pass," like (for instance) fossil fuels and their entire production chain. I see a lot of squabbles about the negatives of various energy tech, and somehow the order of magnitude difference between that and fossil fuels is brushed over, not to speak of oil companies' clear manipulation of public opinion.
This is really all you had to say, but since it doesn’t really add to the discussion, my recommendation would have been to avoid replying at all, especially considering the rest of the content…
> genocide
IME, the people that throw out buzzwords like this about every issue they come across are some of the most likely to perpetrate it, given the opportunity.