Tesla home energy and vehicle owners take a bow. 4M metric tons of CO2 has been saved

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Tesla Solar Energy Output Twice the Power Used By All Its Cars


With an anticipated useful life of around 35+ years, Tesla’s current solar installations are expected to generate 86.5 TWh of energy, which Tesla points out is enough energy to power Washington, DC for 10 years.

The report also states that the more than half a million electric vehicles that Tesla has delivered to date have driven more than 10 billion miles and that its SuperCharger network has provided more than 595 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy for drivers. This about the same as 75 million gallons of gasoline—gasoline that would have pumped just over 680,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide when burned into the atmosphere. Overall, Tesla says that their vehicles have prevented over 4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions to date.

According to the World Health Organization, greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, both a by-product of burning gasoline, cause more than 7 million premature deaths every year worldwide. - InterestingEngineering.com

Tesla global network of over 12,800 Supercharging stations Free and unlimited for use by grandfathered model Teslas.

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1. Wow!!!!! JEEEEEEEEEEEZUSSSSSSS!!!!! Weeeeeeeee'rrrrrreeeeeee Ssssssssavvvvvvvvvved!

Right now we are dumping, while we all wait for the grand so called "renewable energy" nirvana that never comes but nevertheless gets great marketing from assholes like Elon Musk, 35 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, every year, with the number continuously rising.

Four million tons, in the "percent talk" that the apologists for this so called "renewable energy" catastrophe so love, represents 0.0114% of this figure.

Unfortunately, people who burn gas and coal to run computers to praise this stuff are not very good at math.

This probably accounts for the fact that while all this cheering is going on we're seeing carbon dioxide concentrations around 414 ppm, about 25 ppm higher than they were just ten years ago.

I'm an environmentalist, hardly a person to worship some billionaire asshole's car.

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2. Nice ad-hominem

As an environmentalist the facts speak for themselves regardless of what derogatory ad-hominem label you'd like to affix to people. But since you're so anti-Elon Musk. You have to admit, he's doing something positive that's making news on a global scale.

Might I ask what percentage of environmentally positive work you are accredited with? I mean, so we have something to compare to that billionaire asshole, as you call him.

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3. Ask him what the carbon footprint of a nuclear power plant is?

He probably won't want to talk about resource recovery - the process of mining uranium, refining, and manufacturing fuel pellets and all the pollution that process creates.

A Nuclear power plants goes through over 20 tons a year in fuel rods. So that's 20 tons per year times 450 plants worldwide and approx 50 years operational life. So that's 450,000 tons of high level radioactive waste to secure and store. I wonder if we have the budget to store that stuff for 10,000 years?

No matter how you count it - an electric car uses power much more efficient than an IC powered car. And that really is the first step - using the energy we make more efficiently. He hates batteries and yet they allow for the shifting of power production to off peak periods instead of when everyone is trying to use the AC. Plus if you have an EV you have the ability to create your own power from a PV system.