A letter to the EU Commission signed by 170 international scientists has broken through the apparently-general agreement in Germany on the von der Leyen-Merkel “Green Transition” scheme, demonstrating the unsustainability of electro-mobility, a key aspect of it.
The scientists, belonging to the just-founded The International Association of Sustainable Drivetrain and Vehicle Technology Research (IASTEC) (https://iastec.org/), say the Commission’s estimated CO2 emissions of e-cars is 100% wrong, and they demonstrate that, in the case of Germany, e-cars will have to be recharged by “brown” electricity, that is, electricity produced by coal plants.
The letter is based on a study conducted by Prof. Thomas Koch and Prof. Thomas Böhlke of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which was peer-reviewed and published by a scientific magazine.
The study exposes a serious error in the calculations of the EU Commission, and insists that since by 2030, solar panels and windmills won’t be able to produce the entire energy supply, and that coal and gas will be still needed, the CO2 emissions will be double as much as calculated by the Commission, which has failed to include an elementary factor in its calculations – namely, the yearly emissions! (http://s875128239.online.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ZAMM_2021_Accepted_Version-averaging-bias.pdf)
As a consequence, since 100% of electricity from so-called “renewables” must always be put in the net to keep the balance, all additional demands must be satisfied by coal and gas. The letter to the Commission asks therefore to be open to all technologies, and not just e-cars, for a CO2-free mobility. This also includes modern diesel and gasoline engines.
The study and the letter have polarized the public debate in Germany. Whereas a large faction of the media and of the established political circles have reacted negatively to the IASTEC paper, the popular magazine Focus has endorsed it, complaining that the other media are blacking out Professor Koch and his associates.
The shortcoming of the IASTEC initiative is that it does not challenge the root of the problem, the so-called “climate emergency” that motivates a conversion into a “CO2-free economy.” Nevertheless, it is a good tool to show the unsustainability of such policies.
