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      01-16-2022, 12:43 PM   #95
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This was certainly a thought provoking thread on the future of EV and what it can actually achieve in the long run. I don't think anybody really knows. Brings to mind the push for recycling plants 30 years ago.

The vision of recycling trucks coming by your house once or twice a week to empty your recycle containers on the surface seems like a good idea and makes us all "feel good". Until you consider the energy and materials needed to build and maintain all of those large recycle trucks. And the diesel fuel and oil needed to motivate them. And the recycling plants that need to be built and the energy they consume. And all of the workers and truck drivers that need to drive to those plants to work. And the energy and raw materials it takes to convert the recycle refuse into renewable product. And that 50% of the refuge collected has to be discarded and transferred to a proper dump site as it should not have been put in the "recycle container" in the first place.

It does make one wonder what the true net gain is. No..the issue of pollution and global warming is extremely complex problem facing humanity and not an easy one to solve. Perhaps we will one day find a new planet in which we can inhabit or use as a dumping ground. Because let's face it, the bottom line is we have an exponentially growing population that one day earth will not be able to sustain. We need to fix it or it will be fixed for us by Mother Nature and she can be brutal.
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