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Climate Change Nazis Now want to Destroy the Scotch Industry

Scotland is famous for the whisky it makes. But to make it, distillers heat the mixture by burning the ancient dried peat — which is matted grass and vegetable matter found in Scotland’s bogs that took centuries to compact into a medium that burns like wood or soft coal. It is this process that gives Scotch its smooth, smoky flavor.

Because it is a natural product of the earth, and because it is burned to distill the whisky, that makes peat a “fossil fuel.” And guess what that means? Yep, it is something that climate nazi's want to ban.

Is it so unreasonable an expectation for the climate change nazi's to settle for windmills and unicorn farts to replace the peat?
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SW-User
Is there an actual attempt to sabotage the scotch industry or did you just make that up?

Fossil fuels are non renewable and when burned they emit green house gases that's why they contribute to climate change.
"Climate Change Nazis" want to reduce emissions and try to find alternatives to non renewable energy sources, well cause they can't be our future.
SW-User
@SW-User and whisky waste could potentially be an alternative to other fossil fuels

https://www.whisky.com/information/news/newsdetail/glenfiddich-turns-whisky-waste-into-biofuel.html
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@SW-User the device you're using to complain about climate change is made out of plastic, which is produced from fossil fuel...
SW-User
@wildbill83 Oh I am aware and that's why I believe we need to find alternatives. Never have I said we need to ban them alltogether without alternative solutions.
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@SW-User like EV's? have a higher environmental impact and create more pollution in their manufacture (lithium mining & processing is very intensive) than a gasoline vehicle does in it's entire lifetime...

The point being, as with most greenie nonsense, their so called solution is worse than what they're trying to replace...
SW-User
@wildbill83 I agree and cause I am not a greenie I am against Electric cars. They have a high environmental impact in production and there won't be enough electricity to fuel so many cars.
I am a firm believer in public transport as an alternative to single cars.
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@SW-User that might work in the city, will not work in rural areas (90% of the country)
SW-User
@wildbill83 I'm from Europe and we are on a good way. I've heard that it's difficult in the US without a car
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@SW-User I have to disagree with you here. I am a firm believer in public transport too, but EVs environmental impact is way lower than conventional vehicles, and of course there's no emissions. Also, as for their not being enough electricity, I'm sorry no. We are generating more electricity than we have ever done, thanks in no small part to limitless renewables. The problem is the power grids. They need updating.
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@wildbill83

EVs have a higher environmental impact and create more pollution in their manufacture (lithium mining & processing is very intensive) than a gasoline vehicle does in it's entire lifetime.
Bullshit, sorry. Apart from the fact that conventional vehicles are extremely carbon intensive to make, their emissions are why we're in the state we're in (unless, of course, you don't believe in man-made climate change)
lithium mining & processing is very intensive
perhaps we should give up smartphones instead...?
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@SW-User
we are on a good way
your farmers/ranchers might disagree...
SW-User
@wildbill83 What do you mean? 😅
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@SW-User fine by me, smartphones/texting is completely unnecessary and backwards thinking anyways...
SW-User
@wildbill83 I trust you're on a laptop (with a lithium-powered battery) and not a smartphone at the moment (with a lithium powered battery?)
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@SW-User nope, PC with no lithium battery

nor am I a greenie, oil is a resource like anything else, it's here to be used; I don't believe in all this man made climate change horse shit. We have enough coal to last 500-1000 years, green energy doesn't even provide enough power to keep the lights on...
SW-User
@wildbill83 you're an inspiration to us all 😊. Anyway, EVs are the future; it's inevitable.
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@SW-User EV's are nothing new, They've been around for around 130 years... they thought they'd be the future back then too... and they still suffer from the same problems today as they did back then...
SW-User
@wildbill83

and they still suffer from the same problems today as they did back then...
No they don't. The reason they fell out of favour was because they were replaced by something obviously far better and cheaper at the time - conventional petrol vehicles.

That's no longer the case. EVs are now replacing conventional vehicles as the infrastructure and market conditions are clearly favourable to them. They're far from perfect, and will no doubt be replaced by something cheaper, greener and more efficient in the future, like hydrogen powered cars. But for now, EVs are the future, and petrol and diesel cars are done.
@SW-User With Sunstroke there is a 99% chance he made it up entirely.
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
@SW-User EV's on rough terrain/varying elevations, hauling/towing cargo, in extreme weather = useless

Many states/cities are already plagued with power brownouts/blackouts just trying to run A/C in the summer, let alone trying to power charging stations for what few EV's are running around

Batteries are a dead end technology, their many drawbacks are due to physics; things that cannot be overcome no matter how much the technology progresses (i.e. capacitance vs discharge rates in hot & cold temperatures, power bleeding at high temps, lower capacity & less durability in low temperatures; weight of batteries vs range, etc.).

Hydrogen as a combustible fuel would be ideal & practical as is has a higher energy density than gasoline or diesel, and could be used in pretty much any ICE with very little modification; but there is yet an efficient, cost effective means of producing hydrogen.
Oster1 · M
@SW-User Just recently, Ford, is raising prices by 6 to 7 thousand.🤷‍♂️
@Oster1 What does price gouging have to do with anything?
@SW-User The only real tough nut to crack with EVs at this point is cold climates and poorer battery performance.
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@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Well, Norway has a cold climate and over 80% of its new car sales last year were EVs. Also, battery life is getting better and better and will continue to do so. EVs are here to stay; the conventional car is done :)