{"id":1251,"date":"2010-03-13T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T22:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2010-03-13T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T23:45:34","slug":"the-next-messianic-miracle-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/the-next-messianic-miracle-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Messianic Miracle Fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so lithium is not a fuel, it is a material component for storing fuel– in this case, electricity. Lithium-ion batteries are the latest “green” holy grail. Eco-mirage of the hip. Messianic miracle material for the eco-techie. Any good (paid) environmentalist tell you that if only we had enough hybrids on the road, we would all be saved!<\/em><\/p>\n

Indeed, it is the latest goldrush, replete with mega-corporate mining and all the environmental degradation that goes along with it.<\/a><\/p>\n

I suppose we should probably start gearing up to invade Bolivia to secure our access to battery-making material for those Toyota Piouses the enviros keep telling us we should buy.<\/p>\n

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Lithium-induced Piousness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How many times do we have to see this movie,\u00a0people?<\/p>\n

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The other end of the pipeline<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Get off your asses and walk<\/em>! Ride a bike! Take a bus!<\/p>\n

Ditch your deathmobile!<\/em><\/p>\n

It is not now, nor will it ever be, a perpetual motion machine. \u00a0The Laws of Physics simply won’t allow perpetual denial.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so lithium is not a fuel, it is a material component for storing fuel– in this case, electricity. Lithium-ion batteries are the latest “green” holy grail. Eco-mirage of the hip. Messianic miracle material for the eco-techie. Any good (paid) environmentalist tell you that if only we had enough hybrids on the road, we would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,20],"tags":[696,697,695,92,694,693,690,653,165,691,692],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-efficiency","category-environment","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","tag-the-lithium-chase","tag-2nd-law-of-thermodynamics","tag-clifford-krauss","tag-deathmobile","tag-eco-techie","tag-groovey-green-gizmo","tag-lithium-ion","tag-messianic-miracle-fuels","tag-new-york-times","tag-pious","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}