China’s Blood Batteries
April 29, 2022
By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Are Electric Vehicles really clean? They run on dirty energy and blood of children as young as 6. Electric cars drive human rights abuse and child labour. China is one of the villains in this story. Are electric carmakers equally guilty too?
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Imagine if government passed a law that all component parts of imported goods had to have a legally-binding certificate declaring that the parts were produced to ethical standards. Yeah, I know…..
Don’t think there would be any problem producing impeccable paperwork in parts of Asia…
“Are electric carmakers equally guilty too?”
I doubt they are ignorant and not aware about “green” stuff not being “green”, so yes. Greed and political pressure are not any valid excuses. The usage alone are taken out of context, as production and scrapping are part of it too. The two latter are anything but “green”. If the business is legit, con jobs are out of question.
Similar is when food producers claim they generate less CO2 than earlier and as a result are more environmentally friendly. That’s a contradiction and a pure lie. (I would like to see them actually prove it and not in best case refering to any computer fairy tail …)
Superb video, no more than I already knew but very well presented and quite frightening. This information will never reach EV buyers. Maybe, instead of glueing themselves to roads and smashing petrol pumps, the rogues who call themselves climate activists should glue themselves to an EV and then explain why. I wish …
“I doubt they are ignorant and not aware about “green” stuff not being “green””
Absolutely correct. And I very much doubt that the carmakers’ engineers aren’t fully aware that EVs are anything other than a massive scam, far more expensive, more polluting and worse for the “environment” than the biggest ICE SUVs.
But, hey, ho. They, like the engineers in JA Topf und Sohne in Erfurt, knew precisely what these “incineration chambers” were required for. Did they give a shit? Anyone imagine that Xi Jinping (or Boris, or Biden, or Chancellor Scholz) looses sleep much?
This adds to the evidence that EVs are, in fact, as bad for the environment, if not worse than ICE vehicles. The growth in EVs will lead to a massive expansion of raw material mining and associated pollution and environmental damage. Then we have the disposal impact, yet to be realised.
I doubt the green blob want such inconvenient facts to get in the way.
EV’s are worse . . . When OHM’s law is considered, Every EV burns at least 15% more CO2 than ICE’s . . . this data is being generous to EV’s . . .
https://www.academia.edu/62574334/Tesla_Versus_Toyota_Camry
Only ‘worse’ if you accept CO2 Is a pollutant. Wasteful, though.
CO2 as we both know is NOT a pollutant ! What I attempt to do is bury the Elitist Dogma coming from the environmentalists in their own pile of sh!t by discrediting their ‘Zero Emissions’ Lies. By ‘Claiming’ EV’s to be ‘Emissions Free’ they can use that in ‘Net Zero’ as a ‘tradable allowance’ in carbon trading to foster their ‘Fraudulent’ Clean Energy’ initiatives . . .
Every Tesla gets a $2,000 credit that they can sell to excess polluters. Dirty polluters can buy those credits at $5 per Ton. Soo, with out lifting a finger to clean up their operations . . . they can ADD 400 Tons of CO2 to the environment with all the REAL POLLUTION attached and BRAG about how they are meeting their ‘Net Zero’ obligations . . . ?? Hypocrisy !!
For details . . . https://www.academia.edu/76965285/Clean_Green_Energy_and_Net_Zero_Fairy_Tales_on_Steroids
Thank you, Phillip. That was a most powerful condemnation of a very dirty business, presented in a very powerful way. In another world I would expect this to be nominated for a Pulitzer, but the likes of Gore and Mann have dirtied the waters when it comes to prizes.
I hope this gets a lot more publicity.
‘Are electric carmakers equally guilty too?’
No, that’s silly. Indirection. You don’t like China’s environmental practices? Go after the Chinese. They are the problem, not people who buy their products. Have the guts to address the real problem.
Beg to differ, GC. Just one example of doing the right thing: BodyShop. They had strigent ethical rules on what they bought – and sold. That way, the consumer has a choice. I don’t see that with batteries. (Full disclosure: I have many household users powered by Lion batteries whose provenance I cannot swear to).
:Off topic but has anyone else noticed the UK has recently become a nett exporter of electricity? Right now at 3:45pm we are exporting over all interconnectors to Ireland, France, Belgium, Netherlands and even Norway (hydro drying up perhaps?). Noticeably at night our generation curve is barely dropping as we switch to supplying mainland Europe despite our own wind having gone into its usual lull mode. I can think of reasons for this but does anyone else have definitive ideas?
Yeah, I saw that this morning. It’s still showing export now. Interestingly wind is very low, gas high (and nukes on max) but coal is zero and yet ocgt is running – the latter rarely seems to get used, presumably too expensive. But a little is being generated currently from ocgt
The OCGT figures up to about 140MW are usually down to the Indian Queens (Cornwall) unit firing up down at the end of a long leg of the National Grid to stabilise frequency when wind is low down there. It gets used more than most because of its location and wind being seriously unreliable!
http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=981
Like you though I can only imagine that we are not fully firing up the coal units in order to have them fully serviceable, stocked and ready for next winter.
Personally I think something/someone is playing the system at the moment.
One feature is that our gas price is much lower than on the Continent, even as we have been exporting gas full tilt to Belgium and restocking the salt caverns.
https://mip-prd-web.azurewebsites.net/DailySummaryReport#dvDemandTable
We have had a lot of LNG shipments, and there are (exaggerated) tales of short term gas surplus. I am still not quite convinced that I really understand how the market has been rigged. Part of it may simply be fear on the Continent of shortage if Russia cuts supply, as they cannot make good through LNG imports due to lack of import capacity to replace the potentially lost volume. But the gap opened up with steeply falling prices before Russia cut supply to Poland, so it isn’t the whole story. Possibly some long liquidation in the market, but not easy to think how that would come about.
Hot news from Paris.
Dozens of electric buses will be taken off the streets of Paris temporarily “as a precaution” after two of the vehicles caught fire, public transport operator RATP {La Régie autonome des transports parisiens} said on Friday.
https://www.thelocal.fr/20220429/paris-suspends-electric-bus-fleet-after-fires/