1 barrel of oil equivalent of energy equals 1,700,000 watt hours, considering ICE are 35% efficient compared to 80% for electric, Canada would still need 3X or more total electricity just to replace oil (if it was all converted to gasoline). I didn't feel like converting coal and nat gas production. We can't do 10X more hydro or 40X more solar and wind either.
The problem is that it's not only too environmentally dependent, but also too environmentally destructive. Look at California and their push for solar. First, they did not have enough for an entire city and creating those panels require quartz and do I need to explain oh it's contained?
Fission should have been our band-aid until we could hit fusion. The haphazard Russians, the hippies that don't understand how radiation works, and worst of all the NIMBYs ruined it for us.
Imagine if all the bullshit subsidies to wind farms or current expensive, toxic, short-lived solar panels were put into fusion and an economical, clean, solar tech. Not building farms, just test plants. We'd have probably cracked it already, ready for a new dawn of nearly free energy.
All these comments here, plus add in the destructive strip mining needed to get enough lithium and other components to power all these fleets of vehicles. Neil Young thought that the open mining of the oil in Ft. McMurray would make Alberta as barren as the moon, imagine the songs of outcry when 5 to 10 times as much land is stripped bare just for battery powered cars.
It isn't impossible to calculate
1 barrel of oil equivalent of energy equals 1,700,000 watt hours, considering ICE are 35% efficient compared to 80% for electric, Canada would still need 3X or more total electricity just to replace oil (if it was all converted to gasoline). I didn't feel like converting coal and nat gas production. We can't do 10X more hydro or 40X more solar and wind either.
The problem is that it's not only too environmentally dependent, but also too environmentally destructive. Look at California and their push for solar. First, they did not have enough for an entire city and creating those panels require quartz and do I need to explain oh it's contained?
Fission should have been our band-aid until we could hit fusion. The haphazard Russians, the hippies that don't understand how radiation works, and worst of all the NIMBYs ruined it for us.
Imagine if all the bullshit subsidies to wind farms or current expensive, toxic, short-lived solar panels were put into fusion and an economical, clean, solar tech. Not building farms, just test plants. We'd have probably cracked it already, ready for a new dawn of nearly free energy.
We should have been at mini-star plants
Generation capacity isn't the biggest problem. Its all the distribution grid upgrades that will be required coast to coast.
It isn't designed to handle every citizen charging their vehicle at max power
All these comments here, plus add in the destructive strip mining needed to get enough lithium and other components to power all these fleets of vehicles. Neil Young thought that the open mining of the oil in Ft. McMurray would make Alberta as barren as the moon, imagine the songs of outcry when 5 to 10 times as much land is stripped bare just for battery powered cars.