Receiving fresh funding from the U.S. federal government that prioritized green-based projects, development, and infrastructure, Panasonic began construction on a new electric vehicle (EV) battery factory in De Soto, Kansas. Even though EVs have been touted as a means of reducing people’s carbon footprint and reversing climate change, this factory will have to be powered by a coal plant to generate the necessary energy.
Panasonic received $4 billion in funding via the Inflation Reduction Act, and announced the Kansas town in November a year ago. The plant reportedly is going to develop batteries for Tesla’s 2170 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries, which power the company’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.
The Kansas City Star reports that the facility will need between 200 and 250 megawatts of power to operate; which is roughly the amount of energy needed for a small city.
Cowboy State Daily reported that because of this a coal plant will be needed to supply necessary power to the facility, which has triggered activists and has again caused representatives to remind Americans that people will still be forced to use ‘dirty energy’ for much longer yet.
The paper wrote:
In testimony to the Kansas City Corporation Commission, which is the state’s equivalent of the Wyoming Public Service Commission, a representative of Evergy, the utility serving the factory, said that the 4 million-square-foot Panasonic facility creates “near term challenges from a resource adequacy perspective,” according to the newspaper.
As a result, the utility will continue to burn coal at a power plant near Lawrence, Kansas, and it will delay plants to transition units at the plant to natural gas.
And environmentalists are not happy about that.
The situation reflects an ignored fact about EVs — they require enormous amounts of energy to produce.
A 15-pound lithium-ion battery holds about the same amount of energy as a pound of oil. To make that battery requires 7,000 pounds of rock and dirt to get the minerals that go into that battery. The average EV battery weighs around 1,000 pounds.
All of that mining and factory processing produces a lot more carbon dioxide emissions than a gas-powered car, so EVs have to be driven around 50,000 to 60,000 miles before there’s a net reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.
So, as more factories are built in the U.S. to supply EV manufacturers, there will be higher demands on the grid for power.
Emily Arthun, CEO of the American Coal Council, recently spoke with federal lawmakers and members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, explaining that there is growing admission that more coal power is needed in general.
I met with senators and representatives who understand that we’re going to need coal for far longer than people are talking about.
People are starting to understand that energy needs are increasing, and these premature [coal-fired power plant] closures are a liability.
Arthun said
Representative Cyrus Western, Big Horn (R), said in a statement to Cowboy State Daily,
Western said, acknowledging renewables as an “auxiliary supplemental power,” but is simply not sufficient enough in any capacity, a reality that many are not willing to cope with.Kilowatts don’t just fall out of the sky.
That electricity has got to come from somewhere. It’s not going to come from solar farms and wind turbines.
This administration wants to put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
These eco-warriors and paid-off shills are constantly “Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;” (1 Timothy 4:2). The logic behind this nonsense is incomprehensible.
The whole point of the green agenda has nothing to do with actually restoration and being good stewards of the land and God’s creation, which is what we ought to do voluntarily anyways – but, the green scheme is only designed to disrupt and teardown the current framework in place; hence why the globalists losers say “build back better:” they have to destroy the current system first. Most of their end goals will be fulfilled, just not under the banner of liberal and progressive, once the power shift in the world takes place and the West inevitably collapses.
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 11:18
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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