How so? If the goal is to replace internal combustion engines which run on gasoline and diesel with battery operated vehicles, don't you need to have enough battery capacity to store one day's worth of gasoline and diesel use? And can't the storage medium requirement be easily calculated?
Calm down, ma'am, I understand that facing the reality that your Utopian vision of replacing all internal combustion engines with battery operated vehicles isn't practical has traumatized you. But you need to calm down.
Why, do you need a dictionary?
That's nice. Are you disputing the math that it takes 17 trillion kg of lithium to manufacture enough batteries to hold a charge of 110.7 tWh? Or are you disputing that the world consumes 65.1 million barrels of gasoline and diesel per day? Or are you disputing that you don't need enough battery storage to replace one day's of gasoline and diesel use? Or are you disputing that 110.7 tWh of electricity isn't the energy equivalent to 65.1 million barrels of oil?It isn't that simple. You really should know that. A battery is like the gas tank in your car. The gas tank isn't the fuel for the car.
The gas tank can be refilled. If you have an 11gal tank and you get 20 mpg then you get 220 miles on a full tank (or "full charge") if you will.
My battery (like the gas tank) can hold sufficient energy storage to get me 300 miles on a full charge.
The thing you keep bouncing around is the energy density of the gasoline and the EV battery. But even there you are being short-sighted. EV battery volumetric energy densities have been INCREASING!
FOTW #1234, April 18, 2022: Volumetric Energy Density of Lithium-ion Batteries Increased by More than Eight Times Between 2008 and 2020
Volumetric energy density refers to the amount of energy that can be contained within a given volume.www.energy.gov
Is gasoline getting to be more energy dense over time? I don't think so. You can only burn it so efficiently.
As I understand it gasoline has about 46MJ/kg which roughly works out to 322MJ/L. A "Liter volume" of Li ion battery has about 0.2MJ/L. No one is really going to argue over the fact that gasoline is a more energy rich source than a similar volume of Li ion battery.
But the difference is:
1. You can only burn that gas once. The Li ion battery is RECHARGABLE. And that recharge can happen through GREEN TECHNOLOGY. I live it every single day. I charge on solar and drive for free. 3 years now.
2. Li ion batteries are getting to be HIGHER volumetric energy storage. Gasoline is NOT. It is at its limit.
This is how technology develops. It doesn't stay static just because you got too old to understand how the world changes.
It is and it isn't. If it were a one time, yes. But this needs to be done every 7 to 10 years. And then there is the growth rate to consider. Which could lead to a doubling in a surprisingly short amount of time.
You're the only one who keeps bring up your womanhood.
Again... If the goal is to replace internal combustion engines which run on gasoline and diesel with battery operated vehicles, don't you need to have enough battery capacity to store one day's worth of gasoline and diesel use? And can't the storage medium requirement be easily calculated?
Incorrect. The Utopian vision is for a fossil fuel free world. I am calculating the requirement for that.
To replace the energy equivalence of 65 million barrels of oil per day requires 17 trillion kg of lithium metal. Current lithium production is 100,000 metric tons per year. That's not going to cut it.
The OP doesn't address that. That would be the subject of a future OP.
You think that all that water is easy access for Lithium mining that are often hundreds of miles inland?
Run out of arguments? That's rich.
The world needs more fossil fuels, not less.
