(04-25-2019, 04:16 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(04-24-2019, 04:19 PM)mikesez Wrote: It's a dumb argument.
A car that runs on diesel or gasoline is going to produce very similar amounts of CO2 per mile throughout its life no matter where you take it.
But for an electric car, the CO2 per mile has nothing to do with the car itself but with the grid that powers it. That grid can produce less CO2 per kilowatt-hour over time as more solar panels, wind turbines, and energy storage devices are installed.

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Those are two different problems.
We are not running out of places to store hazardous waste. There are plenty of new places to build new landfills. we have figured out the means to keep the workers safe and keep the bad stuff out of the groundwater.
but we only have one atmosphere and every new molecule of carbon dioxide absorbs extra heat in that atmosphere over the long term.

Someone apparently didn't read the article.  They accounted for differences in the power grids and also factored in the energy used to create the battery.  

Also, after that last paragraph given the empirical evidence associated with historical surface temps and the lagging affect of co2 concentration in going to need a picture of this so called engineering degree.