What do we have to do to give every Nova Scotian a reason to believe that plugging in their car isn’t just a gesture—but a genuine leap toward a cleaner, smarter, more sovereign energy future.
Not sure where you get your info from on the vehicles but batteries are based on "cycles" this is once again to believe everyone drives electric because of the environment , yes they are called electric powered vehicles. Batteries don't move the vehicle electric motors do. I drive electric because they are fast, powerful, cheap to own and operate and defiantly WAY more efficient than gas powered vehicles. 1 gallon of gas is equivalent to 33KwH of energy and most gas vehicles hold 17 gallons of gas! That means the gas vehicle has over 561KwH of energy but can only travel around 400-500km full. As a comparable EV has 80KwH of energy and can go the same distance. Now lets talk environment with gas, what happens to the 70+% of wasted fuel from the gas powered vehicle? goes into the environment. As well gas is pumped from the ground with electricity has to be refined and transported as well it expires. Yes i charge my cars with solar!
Not sure where you get your info from on the vehicles but batteries are based on "cycles" this is once again to believe everyone drives electric because of the environment , yes they are called electric powered vehicles. Batteries don't move the vehicle electric motors do. I drive electric because they are fast, powerful, cheap to own and operate and defiantly WAY more efficient than gas powered vehicles. 1 gallon of gas is equivalent to 33KwH of energy and most gas vehicles hold 17 gallons of gas! That means the gas vehicle has over 561KwH of energy but can only travel around 400-500km full. As a comparable EV has 80KwH of energy and can go the same distance. Now lets talk environment with gas, what happens to the 70+% of wasted fuel from the gas powered vehicle? goes into the environment. As well gas is pumped from the ground with electricity has to be refined and transported as well it expires. Yes i charge my cars with solar!
CO2 is plant food. Even if the climate change propaganda was true, which it obviously isn’t given how little the climate has changed in 50 years, even if it was true Canada’s contribution is microscopic, and Nova Scotia’s sub-microscopic. China builds a new coal-fired plant every 3 days. India is also ramping up hydrocarbon-based energy projects. You could erase Canada and NS from the globe entirely and it would make zero difference to the climate.
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from but climate has changed significantly over the last 50 years. It has raised a little over 2ºF from pre-industrial levels so far. That may not seem like much but we exist in a fairly narrow set of conditions. It's affecting crops worldwide, it's affecting storms and there are several well-outlined tipping points where it's difficult to reverse damage done. Also, what we currently see is just the tip of the iceberg. As we add more CO2 in the climate change accelerates. Slightly at first, but then a jet also takes off from a slow start too.
Some of your other information is correct, Nova Scotia does not add significant (scaled to the entire world) sources of CO2. Canada, however, does, although it's not top 5, if you neutralized ALL of Canada's carbon emissions somehow it would make a difference. Not enough of a difference to prevent future catastrophe though.
Also climate change won't hit every area equally, the far north is changing faster than everywhere else, for instance. Nova Scotia will probably see a net benefit for at least some years from the extra warmth, although we may also see more storms or more serious storms too. The Arctic could see loss of habitat for polar bears, loss of land due to permafrost melt (so more difficult long range transport too) and more fires in the boreal forests. Eventually though, the total amount of damage worldwide will be catastrophic if nothing is done and we just keep doing what we're doing today. The scale is huge and we have trouble thinking, planning or executing at the required scale. We can, but it's difficult.
Not sure where you get your info from on the vehicles but batteries are based on "cycles" this is once again to believe everyone drives electric because of the environment , yes they are called electric powered vehicles. Batteries don't move the vehicle electric motors do. I drive electric because they are fast, powerful, cheap to own and operate and defiantly WAY more efficient than gas powered vehicles. 1 gallon of gas is equivalent to 33KwH of energy and most gas vehicles hold 17 gallons of gas! That means the gas vehicle has over 561KwH of energy but can only travel around 400-500km full. As a comparable EV has 80KwH of energy and can go the same distance. Now lets talk environment with gas, what happens to the 70+% of wasted fuel from the gas powered vehicle? goes into the environment. As well gas is pumped from the ground with electricity has to be refined and transported as well it expires. Yes i charge my cars with solar!
Not sure where you get your info from on the vehicles but batteries are based on "cycles" this is once again to believe everyone drives electric because of the environment , yes they are called electric powered vehicles. Batteries don't move the vehicle electric motors do. I drive electric because they are fast, powerful, cheap to own and operate and defiantly WAY more efficient than gas powered vehicles. 1 gallon of gas is equivalent to 33KwH of energy and most gas vehicles hold 17 gallons of gas! That means the gas vehicle has over 561KwH of energy but can only travel around 400-500km full. As a comparable EV has 80KwH of energy and can go the same distance. Now lets talk environment with gas, what happens to the 70+% of wasted fuel from the gas powered vehicle? goes into the environment. As well gas is pumped from the ground with electricity has to be refined and transported as well it expires. Yes i charge my cars with solar!
CO2 is plant food. Even if the climate change propaganda was true, which it obviously isn’t given how little the climate has changed in 50 years, even if it was true Canada’s contribution is microscopic, and Nova Scotia’s sub-microscopic. China builds a new coal-fired plant every 3 days. India is also ramping up hydrocarbon-based energy projects. You could erase Canada and NS from the globe entirely and it would make zero difference to the climate.
I'm not sure where you're getting your information from but climate has changed significantly over the last 50 years. It has raised a little over 2ºF from pre-industrial levels so far. That may not seem like much but we exist in a fairly narrow set of conditions. It's affecting crops worldwide, it's affecting storms and there are several well-outlined tipping points where it's difficult to reverse damage done. Also, what we currently see is just the tip of the iceberg. As we add more CO2 in the climate change accelerates. Slightly at first, but then a jet also takes off from a slow start too.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health
Some of your other information is correct, Nova Scotia does not add significant (scaled to the entire world) sources of CO2. Canada, however, does, although it's not top 5, if you neutralized ALL of Canada's carbon emissions somehow it would make a difference. Not enough of a difference to prevent future catastrophe though.
Also climate change won't hit every area equally, the far north is changing faster than everywhere else, for instance. Nova Scotia will probably see a net benefit for at least some years from the extra warmth, although we may also see more storms or more serious storms too. The Arctic could see loss of habitat for polar bears, loss of land due to permafrost melt (so more difficult long range transport too) and more fires in the boreal forests. Eventually though, the total amount of damage worldwide will be catastrophic if nothing is done and we just keep doing what we're doing today. The scale is huge and we have trouble thinking, planning or executing at the required scale. We can, but it's difficult.