Who is "we"???? China has nearly 2 times as much emissions than the USA and are building more coal power plants.
China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries, report finds.
A new report finds that last year China permitted the equivalent of two coal plants per week. China's renewable sector is also booming.
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Sounds like you are China lover excusing THEM for doing 2 times as much CO2 emissions in less than 50 years compared to the USA in 100 years !
Now there are several totally less expensive options than EVs.
A)Have you ever heard of Carbon capture and storage (CCS), is a process in which a relatively pure stream of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial sources is separated, treated and transported to a long-term storage location.
Carbon capture and storage - Wikipedia
B)
CO2 can be used to produce fuels and chemical intermediates through several conversion routes but require significant energy input.
The chief cost factor is typically electricity, accounting for between 40-70% of the production costs, and hence very low average grid electricity prices are required for CO2-derived methanol and methane to be competitive,
Putting CO2 to Use - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
www.iea.org
So Electricity is the biggest COST!!! Wow...so the cost of EV conversions of just Trucks in the USA of building 33,153 nuclear power plants will be definitely more than using CO2 to produce fuels!!! People... there are some truly ignorant people in CHARGE!!!
These two solutions to reducing CO2 are combined totally less expensive i.e.
So AGAIN if 80% of the 166 million private trucks or 132 million are EVs and each truck at 100,000 average miles per truck/ year
source:
How Many Miles Do Truckers Drive a Year?
Each truck average 1.89 kWh per Mile Per Truck : Fact:
Battery capacity and recharging needs for electric buses in city transit service (Journal Article) | OSTI.GOV
Lets do the math: 132 million trucks at 100,000 miles/year/truck equals 13,200,000,000,000 miles.
13,200,000,000,000 miles at 1.89 kWh per mile or 24,948,000,000,000 kWh and that's just EV Trucks in the USA!
Right NOW....11,070 power plants generate 4,165,030,000,000 kWh or per power plant: 376,244,806 kWh each per year.
FACT:
Electricity generation, capacity, and sales in the United States - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
FACT: One power plant at $752,489,612 will generate 376,244,806 kWh per year.
So how many more nuclear power plants will have to be built (if EVEN at a 50% error factor),JUST for EV trucks total usage of 12,474,000,000,000 kWh?
Divide 12,474,000,000,000 kWh by 376,244,806 kWh generated per power plant, or an additional
33,153 nuclear power plants have to be built!
33,153 NEW nuclear power plants at the cost of $752,489,612 EACH plant or total of
$24,948,000,000,000!
Just half of the cost to build 33,153 NEW power plants to provide JUST USA EV Trucks could be used to further develop either of the above 2 opportunities!
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