California is proud of being a leader in relation to dealing with climate change. The reason for this is that they believe, on unstable scientific grounds, that their citizens face disastrous consequences on them by man -made global warming – including wildfires, increase in sea levels, drought, climate refugees and other effects that “threatens their health and safety”.
Thus, to reduce the carbon footprints of his state, the legislature recently passed a law to “publicly disclose” to all companies doing business of more than $ 1 billion within California, (by 2026) all their “direct” direct “direct” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have erupted from fuel combustion, as well as all “individuals”, as well as hot and hot emissions. Cooling from doing.
By 2027, they will also have to disclose the “indirect upstream and downstream” GHG emitted by the formulas that they do not control themselves or directly, but from whom they buy goods and services, including GHG emissions associated with “processing and use of products sold”.
It certainly covers almost every mega-scal unit to trade in a time-coordin state. And it can help those who think of better sleep at night about climate change. But will it actually reduce the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions?
The simple answer is’ no “. Let me explain.
Since only “zero-furnsing” vehicles can be sold in California by 2035, and the state should have 100% “clean” electricity by 2045, the new disclosure mandate should be covered (at least in principle), which should be covered by GHG emissions and use technologies, which should cover the GHG emissions and use technologies, which should cover the GHG emissions related to the “upstream” operations required for the processing of raw materials, which required raw material processing, and use new energy generations. The “clean energy” equipment sold in California should be used.
The new mandate should also cover wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicle batteries, grid-scale backup batteries, transformers, extended transmission lines and emerging “clean, green, renewable, permanent” economy related to the emerging “clean, green, renewable, permanent” economy.
And they should cover fully extraction, processing, refinement and other activities that cover other activities required to achieve non -metals, minerals, concrete, plastic, paint, other materials – and fuel – and other activities required to build technologies.
Billion-dollar utility companies that buy and use all these devices must have to publicly explain and reveal all the emissions associated with these “clean” technologies.
If such inventory is taken accurately, and it is very “If”, it will not paint those touting renewables, green building construction and EV transportation “fix”.
International energy agency and other experts report that electric vehicles contain six times more metals than weight than internal combustion counterparts. Photovoltaic solar panels require six-time more metals and minerals (in addition to steel and aluminum) per megawatt (in addition to steel and aluminum) compared to joint-cycle gas turbine, which generates 24/7/365 too much; They require at least 100 times more land area.
Depending on the weather, intermittent wind turbines require 9–10 times more than CCGT, and offshore wind turbines require fourteen times more raw materials. Inserting 850 feet high air turbines into the deep sea water of California, they will require them to prevent capping into a large -scale growing storms, growing on floating platforms on floating platforms; This would mean 40 times more material.
For each 100,000 tonnes of copper (2,275 giant 12-gaawat 12-gawat enough for wind turbines), companies will have to explode and remove about 60,000,000 tons of ore and overling rock, and then use heat and chemicals to process about 23,000,000 tonnes of ore. Every step includes fossil fuels.
Nickel for powerful nickel-cobalt-aluminum and nickel-manganese-cobalt EV batteries is found on a large scale in Indonesia, where companies make ore mines using diesel-operated equipment and send it to coal fuel smokers. Once completely operational, a single nickel-processing industrial park in East Indonesia will burn more coal per year than Brazil.
Cobalt for cobalt-lithium batteries mostly comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, it involves wide children and near-das labor and “Akshaya” technologies, like most other metals and minerals, require fossil fuels and toxic chemicals, and the communist is controlled by China.
Manufacturing wind turbines, solar panels and batteries are also very focused in China, whose coal-based power and resulting GHG emissions are now more than the rest of the world. In fact, China alone alone kept 38.4 GW (38,400 MW) of coal-powered power capacity alone-more than three times the amount manufactured everywhere across the world.
In short, green infection of California is likely to be an ugly for those who are actually with the intention of trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. No one can help, but wonder when the politicians of California realize their grand plan to protect the Earth from a man -made climate crisis, then actually results in exiting more greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere?
My guess is nothing – except it, of course, to ensure that such a valid inventory is not done in the first place.
Craig Rooker is the chairman of a creative committee for tomorrow (www.cfact.org)