Total fuel consumption of U.S. airlines is approximately 19 billion gallons annually. Total fuel consumption for mining Ore for construction of electric car batteries is approximately 21 billion gallons annually. The 21 billion gallons of fuel burned can only produce enough Ore to build 250,000 electric car batteries.
The lifespan of an electric battery is 10 years and is not renewable in the sense of charge state. If more efforts to recycle are not introduced, by 2050 these batteries will fill landfills with 50 million pounds of waste that does not break down. I wonder if people would still believe in electric power cars, vehicles or equipment if they knew how massive the carbon emissions footprint really was?
So a Tesla Model S motor is 825bhp(615kW) and 960lb.ft with the vehicle weighing 2.3 tons, and a CAT 797 is 4000bhp(3MW) and 6830lb.ft and weighs 687 tons. The Tesla battery is 100kWh (3MJ).
So at nearly 5 x in power and 7x the torque, the CAT would deck the Tesla battery in 1 second. 3MW=3MJ, so 3MW/3MJ=1 second.
Extrapolating energy density alone for providing 60 seconds of operation… well 60 * 1,375lbs = 41 tons, 1 hour of operation… 60 times that, so 2,475 tons. Shocking huh!?
It is the conundrum. Contracting firms, like the airline industry, buy at bulk rates with diminished tax rates. As I had stated to another person, these numbers are a consolidation of some “articles” and “papers” whereby I was just linking industries and their fuel usages. I will be drafting a more thourough study and upload.
Mining vehicles; front loaders, dump trucks, etc get horrific mileage in-field where it is all or mostly stop and go, resulting in 0.5-1 mile per gallon equivalents. So it’s is actually easy to see the exceptionally high fuel usage.
One needs to completely account for all energy used in the creation of a product. Understandably, energy costs are rolled up into a product cost. As well, the raw materials of the products are the cheapest and the costs roll up as components are processed. The materials are cheap to mine for the miner, but that’s only as long as the customer is willing pay. Then then costs increase accordingly. As we see that Chinese companies are vertically siloed; mine, process, manufacture, they keep costs down because of slave labor in lithium mines. So meniscule mining costs feeds forward to a cheaper product at the end of it all.
The lifespan of an electric battery is 10 years and is not renewable in the sense of charge state. If more efforts to recycle are not introduced, by 2050 these batteries will fill landfills with 50 million pounds of waste that does not break down. I wonder if people would still believe in electric power cars, vehicles or equipment if they knew how massive the carbon emissions footprint really was?
So a Tesla Model S motor is 825bhp(615kW) and 960lb.ft with the vehicle weighing 2.3 tons, and a CAT 797 is 4000bhp(3MW) and 6830lb.ft and weighs 687 tons. The Tesla battery is 100kWh (3MJ).
So at nearly 5 x in power and 7x the torque, the CAT would deck the Tesla battery in 1 second. 3MW=3MJ, so 3MW/3MJ=1 second.
Extrapolating energy density alone for providing 60 seconds of operation… well 60 * 1,375lbs = 41 tons, 1 hour of operation… 60 times that, so 2,475 tons. Shocking huh!?
It is the conundrum. Contracting firms, like the airline industry, buy at bulk rates with diminished tax rates. As I had stated to another person, these numbers are a consolidation of some “articles” and “papers” whereby I was just linking industries and their fuel usages. I will be drafting a more thourough study and upload.
Mining vehicles; front loaders, dump trucks, etc get horrific mileage in-field where it is all or mostly stop and go, resulting in 0.5-1 mile per gallon equivalents. So it’s is actually easy to see the exceptionally high fuel usage.
One needs to completely account for all energy used in the creation of a product. Understandably, energy costs are rolled up into a product cost. As well, the raw materials of the products are the cheapest and the costs roll up as components are processed. The materials are cheap to mine for the miner, but that’s only as long as the customer is willing pay. Then then costs increase accordingly. As we see that Chinese companies are vertically siloed; mine, process, manufacture, they keep costs down because of slave labor in lithium mines. So meniscule mining costs feeds forward to a cheaper product at the end of it all.
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