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Earlier today Corazón, aka The Queen of England, posted a BS article by one Mark P. Mills, a so-called electrical power "expert", in which he claimed that batteries will never be energy efficient enough in performance or production related power consumption, to replace fossil fuel driven, internal combustion engines.
Not long ago, this Mills character made a similar claim, that iPhones use as much energy, taking into account the power required to produce them, the power required to run the internet infrastructure and the power they use themselves, as a modern refrigerator uses.
Think Progress enlisted the help of Dr. Jon Koomey, the world’s foremost authority on the electricity consumption of the Internet, to debunk the claims made by Mills.
Summary:
"...Mr. Mills has made attention-getting claims that don’t stand up to scrutiny. He cherry picks numbers to achieve his intended results, and his report has vague or non-existent references (but lots of footnotes). This appears to be a deliberate attempt to convey an air of scholarly care while at the same time obfuscating his methods...
The big story here is why the media is paying any attention to this report at all. Mr. Mills proved more than a decade ago that he is not a reliable source on the issue of electricity used by information technology, and his recent work simply confirms this. Unfortunately, it also confirms what seems to be an inability of most media outlets to report sensibly about technical topics, in part because of the pressure to generate attention-getting headlines, regardless of their veracity. In my view, this sorry episode does not bode well for our ability as a society to deal with complex issues like climate change in the 21st century unless we change the way media reporting is conducted on technical issues."
Article:
Does Your iPhone Use As Much Electricity As A New Refrigerator? Not Even Close.
Sounds like just another oil industry paid shill.
Not long ago, this Mills character made a similar claim, that iPhones use as much energy, taking into account the power required to produce them, the power required to run the internet infrastructure and the power they use themselves, as a modern refrigerator uses.
Think Progress enlisted the help of Dr. Jon Koomey, the world’s foremost authority on the electricity consumption of the Internet, to debunk the claims made by Mills.
Summary:
"...Mr. Mills has made attention-getting claims that don’t stand up to scrutiny. He cherry picks numbers to achieve his intended results, and his report has vague or non-existent references (but lots of footnotes). This appears to be a deliberate attempt to convey an air of scholarly care while at the same time obfuscating his methods...
The big story here is why the media is paying any attention to this report at all. Mr. Mills proved more than a decade ago that he is not a reliable source on the issue of electricity used by information technology, and his recent work simply confirms this. Unfortunately, it also confirms what seems to be an inability of most media outlets to report sensibly about technical topics, in part because of the pressure to generate attention-getting headlines, regardless of their veracity. In my view, this sorry episode does not bode well for our ability as a society to deal with complex issues like climate change in the 21st century unless we change the way media reporting is conducted on technical issues."
Article:
Does Your iPhone Use As Much Electricity As A New Refrigerator? Not Even Close.
Sounds like just another oil industry paid shill.