ThatOwlWoman (12-02-2020)
ThatOwlWoman (12-02-2020)
cancel2 2022 (12-02-2020)
Doubling electricity consumption would be catastrophic for the climate- so clearly the electric car is not a route that should be pursued. Our lifestyles need to change.Tesla CEO says electric cars will double global electricity demand
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that electricity consumption will double if the world’s car fleets are electrified, increasing the need to expand nuclear, solar, geothermal and wind energy generating sources.
Increasing the availability of sustainable energy is a major challenge as cars move from combustion engines to battery-driven electric motors, a shift which will take two decades, Musk said in a talk hosted by Berlin-based publisher Axel Springer.
“It will take another 20 years for cars to be fully electric. It is like with phones, you cannot replace them all at once,” Musk said in a talk streamed on the Bild.de web site, adding that around 5% of vehicles are replaced every year.
Once electric cars become the norm, electricity from intermittent generating energy sources such as wind and solar will need to be stored, probably through battery technology, he said.
“Together with large battery packs, both things need to be combined, wind power with battery packs and solar energy,” Musk said.
Tesla is embarking on plans to build its fourth gigafactory in Europe’s largest economy.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...frMEWVbVCRQDn4
Does Musk care ? Musk is a nauseatingly-rich playboy who is getting his rocks off by fucking up your planet.
Wannabe Muskonauts take note- you ain't going anyplace with Elon.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.
Has time goes by and solar technology gets further refined, solar will become one of our major source of power in the not too distance future.
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moon (12-02-2020)
katzgar (12-02-2020)
It's all very well for those who get plenty of sun! Wind and water power would do wonders for us, if we could get the bloody Johnson gang and London off our backs.
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
De Oppresso Liber
True enough. Still, provided that the highest energy-consumers moderate their life-styles then it might be possible to add to wind and water power by way of international solar power grids. Of course, both wind and water are solar power, albeit in different forms. Sol provides for all- if we're not greedy.
The whole point of life is to stay alive. Perpetual growth for growth's sake is unnecessary- and very, very dumb. Being alive is enough.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
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