Originally Posted by ls1ac (Post 3378273)

I keep asking about required energy, Just for arguments sake: half of the cars on the road were electric and need charging. Half of the energy now supplied by gas. this is a lot of energy. Now that must be suppled by the grid. California is already having delivery problems. New infrastructure and generation will be needed. Can not build new coal plants will not allow nuclear. I do not think we can import the needed KW, what are they going to do?

Originally Posted by ls1ac (Post 3378273)

I keep asking about required energy, Just for arguments sake: half of the cars on the road were electric and need charging. Half of the energy now supplied by gas. this is a lot of energy. Now that must be suppled by the grid. California is already having delivery problems. New infrastructure and generation will be needed. Can not build new coal plants will not allow nuclear. I do not think we can import the needed KW, what are they going to do?

Originally Posted by soundman98 (Post 3378283)

i've been saying this for years. but everyone just calls me bonkers.

Originally Posted by ls1ac (Post 3378273)

I keep asking about required energy, Just for arguments sake: half of the cars on the road were electric and need charging. Half of the energy now supplied by gas. this is a lot of energy. Now that must be suppled by the grid. California is already having delivery problems. New infrastructure and generation will be needed. Can not build new coal plants will not allow nuclear. I do not think we can import the needed KW, what are they going to do?

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze (Post 3378068)

It would be fine with the right mods.


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Originally Posted by ls1ac (Post 3378288)

Enough panels to replace that amount of energy will have to cover most of the desert. I am sure the tree huggers will like that.

Someone did a study for Chicago and found that most of the surface of lake Michigan would be needed and that was not counting how to store the energy for night time.

Originally Posted by dpfarr (Post 3378425)

The amount of over produced power wasted at night could be utilized in vehicle storage.

Originally Posted by dpfarr (Post 3378425)

The amount of over produced power wasted at night could be utilized in vehicle storage.

Originally Posted by Spuds (Post 3378479)

That only works until a lot of people have electric cars and typically uses non-renewable energy. Once everybody is charging their car at night it starts being high demand at night, when solar doesn't help and the wind is at its lowest speed on average.

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0 (Post 3378551)

Surplus of energy in the day can be stored in batteries, converted into hydrogen, used in place of hydro then hydro is released at night, and there are other storage solutions being considered.

https://www.powerelectronics.com/tec...-into-the-grid

https://newatlas.com/energy-vault-co...battery/57164/

Originally Posted by ls1ac (Post 3378273)

I keep asking about required energy, Just for arguments sake: half of the cars on the road were electric and need charging. Half of the energy now supplied by gas. this is a lot of energy. Now that must be suppled by the grid. California is already having delivery problems. New infrastructure and generation will be needed. Can not build new coal plants will not allow nuclear. I do not think we can import the needed KW, what are they going to do?

Originally Posted by LimitedSlip (Post 3378573)

And then there are those days when PG&E just turns off the grid for fear of being sued (again) when the wind blows hard and causes the transmission lines to spark and start a wildfire. Smokey the Bear says "Only you can prevent forest fires. Sorry, no charging your EV today." :sigh:

Originally Posted by Spuds (Post 3378585)

Imagine a world where you have to evacuate a wildfire area on foot because you didn't have power at your house to charge your vehicle.