By Jo Nova

Saving the world with silent killers

A new study shows electric cars are twice as likely to hit pedestrians compared to petrol and diesel cars. Presumably this is because EV’s are so quiet. Though it’s also possible the dash interfaces are hideous, and some menu options are more deadly and distracting than others. Or perhaps EV drivers are more stressed or feeling nauseous? The study didn’t investigate that.

Amazingly the data was from six to ten years ago in the UK, so countless people have died in the interim, and if it is just a noise issue, it could have been fixed, or at least investigated. Where is the precautionary principle when you need it?

And if electric cars are killing more people in cities, we would presume that Fido and Spot would be a part of the carnage too. But who would know what the car-pet-kill tally was? Well, manufacturers might — they own the camera footage, but no one is even asking that question. Animals have rights you know, but they don’t donate to Greenpeace.

The Greens are rushing headlong to roll out the auto-weather-saving-machines across the countryside, and they might be killing wallabies and spotted quolls too but who cares, right? It’s not like anyone has done that study, or the Greens are worried about flattening a few rare endangered animals on their road to redemption.

Apparently, it makes sense if a few extra people and pets die now to save someone else who might suffer in one hundred years, maybe, if the computer models are right, and if EVs  reduce emissions, and if emissions matter in the first place. All of which is unlikely. But rush, sprint, hurry to force those EV’s onto the road. Even if they kidnap people, or kill children, it’s all for a good cause.

Scitech Daily

Study reveals a higher risk of accidents in urban areas across Great Britain from 2013 to 2017. Researchers call for measures to mitigate this risk as fossil-fuel vehicles are phased out.

A study has found that pedestrians are twice as likely to be hit by electric or hybrid vehicles compared to those powered by petrol or diesel. The research, which was published on May 21, 2024, in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, examined casualty rates in Great Britain from 2013 to 2017.

The risk is greater in urban areas, and governments must take steps to mitigate this safety hazard as they proceed to phase out fossil-fueled vehicles to improve air quality and curb climate change, urge the researchers.

Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young people, and 1 in 4 road traffic deaths are of pedestrians, they note. Amid the ongoing shift to electric and hybrid cars, concerns have been raised that these vehicles may pose more of a safety hazard to pedestrians than fossil-fuelled cars because they are quieter, particularly in urban areas where background ambient noise levels are higher.

the researchers calculate that between 2013 and 2017, the average annual casualty rates of pedestrians per 100 million miles of road travel were 5.16 for electric and hybrid vehicles and 2.40 for petrol and diesel vehicles.

Perhaps it’s really the fault of all those young inexperienced drivers?

And younger, less experienced drivers are more likely to be involved in a road traffic collision and are also more likely to own an electric car, possibly accounting for some of the observed heightened risk associated with these vehicles, they suggest.

These are the same careless teenagers who were “more likely” to splash $100 K on a Tesla Model S in 2016, right?

The only thing we know for sure is that the rush to force EVs on us has nothing to do with morality or compassion. It’s not about saving lives or protecting fluffy mammals. The Greens don’t care about those lives now, let alone the people of the future.

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Essay by Eric Worrall

“… after warnings the shift to renewable energy has fallen off track.”

NSW to pay Origin up to $225m a year to keep Eraring open

Ben Potter Senior writer
May 23, 2024 – 9.29am

The NSW government will extend the life of Origin Energy’s Eraring coal-fired power station for at least two more years until August 2027, at a cost of up $225 million a year, after warnings the shift to renewable energy has fallen off track.

Under the deal, Origin will seek to generate a minimum of six terawatt hours a year – about 3 per cent of total generation in the eastern states’ National Electricity Market – from the giant plant on the shores of NSW’s Lake Macquarie.

Origin will pay the government a fifth of any operating profits up to a maximum of $40 million a year should the plant operate at a profit during the extension period.

But if Eraring is run at a loss, Origin can call on the state to subsidise the plant’s operating and capital costs, capped at $225 million per annum.

Origin may run the plant until 2029 if it chooses but the state will not pay any compensation after August 2027.

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Read more: https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/nsw-to-pay-origin-up-to-225m-a-year-to-keep-eraring-open-until-2027-20240523-p5jfxc

Just as well renewables are the cheapest energy ever, otherwise all these enormous subsidies for all different forms of power would be costing NSW taxpayers a heap of money.

I wonder if other coal plant operations will notice how easy it is to squeeze big money out of desperate, net zero obsessed politicians? Politicians who are barely beginning to wake up how badly they have stuffed up?

Just as well the government has decreed everything will be back on track by 2027.

Do I need a /sarc tag?