Climate Change(d)?

[Loren Pechtel]

If my memory is right you actually get the maximum energy from carbon, not lithium. It's just not practical to actually use.

Of course it is. We use carbon now, specifically because it's an excellent store of energy. That's what got us into this mess.

Batteries are just combustion, but slowed down and made to run in both directions.

It's all just shuffling electrons around.

I meant "not practical" in that all components must be solid or liquid and that the reaction yields charge movement and can be driven by applying a charge. AFIAK carbon meets none of these.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

NOAA has a great resource that plots statewide average temps over periods of time, and you can set whatever measured baseline you'd like. It is great at weeding out the noise in daily weather and predictably shows the warming trend we've been seeing.