Post by NFA on Aug 29, 2023 5:44:12 GMT 8
RE: EVs drive better health
The Editor
The Cairns Post
The "PhD candidate" claiming EVs are better for health than hydrocarbon-fuelled cars (EVs drive better health, 29/08) seems to be using outdated information on exhaust emissions and misleading statistics on air pollution deaths, is only considering part of the EV life cycle, and hasn't considered electromagnetic fields from EV batteries affecting human bioelectric systems at all.
Catalytic converters on exhaust pipes cleaned up polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and nitrogen compound emissions years ago.
The air pollution death statistics include residents of the nations which haven’t been allowed to develop their hydrocarbon resources where they still cook indoors using dried dung and rubbish as fuel.
The life cycle of EVs includes cobalt mining, with the majority done in the Congo where child slave labour is used, dramatically shortening those children’s lives. It also includes the release of toxic metals from the batteries at the end of their 400-recharge lifecycles.
The electromagnetic fields emitted by EV batteries and motors have been found to disrupt the bioelectric activity in occupants’ nervous systems, including heart function.
The ongoing failure of the pro-EV forces to adequately consider all the issues suggests they have a broader agenda.
(190 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
The Cairns Post
The "PhD candidate" claiming EVs are better for health than hydrocarbon-fuelled cars (EVs drive better health, 29/08) seems to be using outdated information on exhaust emissions and misleading statistics on air pollution deaths, is only considering part of the EV life cycle, and hasn't considered electromagnetic fields from EV batteries affecting human bioelectric systems at all.
Catalytic converters on exhaust pipes cleaned up polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and nitrogen compound emissions years ago.
The air pollution death statistics include residents of the nations which haven’t been allowed to develop their hydrocarbon resources where they still cook indoors using dried dung and rubbish as fuel.
The life cycle of EVs includes cobalt mining, with the majority done in the Congo where child slave labour is used, dramatically shortening those children’s lives. It also includes the release of toxic metals from the batteries at the end of their 400-recharge lifecycles.
The electromagnetic fields emitted by EV batteries and motors have been found to disrupt the bioelectric activity in occupants’ nervous systems, including heart function.
The ongoing failure of the pro-EV forces to adequately consider all the issues suggests they have a broader agenda.
(190 words)
Peter Campion
Tolga
