Yet another reason to go electric in vehicles

[ThisIsMe]

Let's see if I can get this right:

Approximately 289 million cars on the road

Average miles driven per year between 12,000 and 15,000, so let's say 13,500.

289,000,000 X 13,500 = 3.9 trillion miles per year driven.

Estimates are an average ev will use about 30 kwh to travel 100 miles.

So, 3.9 trillion / 100 X 30 = 1.2 trillion kwh of energy per year to power electric cars.

1 windmill can produce up to 43,800 kwh of electricity per year, if it runs at max capacity all day every day.

So, to get the 1.2 trillion kwh of energy per year, you would need:

1,200,000,000,000 / 43,800 = 27,397,260 wind turbines.

An industrial wind turbine needs between 40 and 70 acres of land. We'll go with 50 acres.

So, 27,397,260 turbines X 50 acres = 1.4 billion acres of land

There are 2.4 billion acres of land and water in the u.s.

So, to get the amount of wind energy to power electric vehicles by wind and solar (I think solar is less efficient than wind), you would have to plant wind turbines over half of the u.s.

A coal plant produces about 3.5 billion kwh per year. So 1.2 trillion kwh would require 343 coal plants. In 2019 there were 241 coal plants across the u.s, so we would have to build about 100 more coal plants to make the required energy.

A nuclear power plant will produce about 9 billion kwh per year. There are about 93 nuclear power plants in the u.s of various power output capacities. 9 billion kwh is probably average. So, 1.2 trillion / 9 billion = 133 nuclear power plants. So we would need to build about 40 more of them.

Did I get that right? Either that or I spent all that time to get it completely wrong. Lol

 

[Leo123]

Let's see if I can get this right:

Approximately 289 million cars on the road

Average miles driven per year between 12,000 and 15,000, so let's say 13,500.

289,000,000 X 13,500 = 3.9 trillion miles per year driven.

Estimates are an average ev will use about 30 kwh to travel 100 miles.

So, 3.9 trillion / 100 X 30 = 1.2 trillion kwh of energy per year to power electric cars.

1 windmill can produce up to 43,800 kwh of electricity per year, if it runs at max capacity all day every day.

So, to get the 1.2 trillion kwh of energy per year, you would need:

1,200,000,000,000 / 43,800 = 27,397,260 wind turbines.

An industrial wind turbine needs between 40 and 70 acres of land. We'll go with 50 acres.

So, 27,397,260 turbines X 50 acres = 1.4 billion acres of land

There are 2.4 billion acres of land and water in the u.s.

So, to get the amount of wind energy to power electric vehicles by wind and solar (I think solar is less efficient than wind), you would have to plant wind turbines over half of the u.s.

A coal plant produces about 3.5 billion kwh per year. So 1.2 trillion kwh would require 343 coal plants. In 2019 there were 241 coal plants across the u.s, so we would have to build about 100 more coal plants to make the required energy.

A nuclear power plant will produce about 9 billion kwh per year. There are about 93 nuclear power plants in the u.s of various power output capacities. 9 billion kwh is probably average. So, 1.2 trillion / 9 billion = 133 nuclear power plants. So we would need to build about 40 more of them.

Did I get that right? Either that or I spent all that time to get it completely wrong. Lol

Thanks, and that certainly explains why China is building more coal plants.

 

[EyeBRollin]

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Won’t be taking a road trip in a blizzard, thanks.

 

[the other mike]

I'm sticking with my gyrocar.

 

[the other mike]

 

[Leo123]

I'm sticking with my gyrocar.
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Is there a squirrel-cage in there?

 

[petro]

Won’t be taking a road trip in a blizzard, thanks.

Well, that has been my daily commute for the last week.
Like I said, I will stick with my 5.7 4x4 Jeep

 

[Mac-7]

Yet another reason to go electric, an article on Wednesdays Omaha world herald December 29th 2021. Mexico to stop exporting oil in 2023. The US imported 599,000 barrels of oil a day from Mexico. They realize their oil fields won't last forever and they're keeping what they have for their own national self-sufficiency in fuel production. Fortunately US Auto companies are making the switch already that will help save us from $10 and $20 a gallon oil. Prices will be going through the roof, no more cheap oil. It's day is over. We may yet save the planet, despite ourselves.

Let us keep what we find and American companies would likely discover plenty of oil that the mexicans dont know about

in any event oil scarcity is not what really gives the electric car wackos nightmares

their worst fear is that we wont run out soon enough to save the polar bears

 

[Mac-7]

EVs are the future no matter how much Con Luddites scream, moan and throw tantrums.

I dont object to electric cars

they have many plusses

what I object to is pinheads in government ramming their pet project down the public’s throat over baseless hysteria

 

[iceberg]

You are a naive idiot who takes his freedom for granted.

you can tell all that from a disagreement, huh?

 

[Mac-7]

Its being said that government mandates eill drive Government Motors out of business because they are too far behind on electric cars

then the same libs will cry about the loss of jobs in Detroit

 

[Mac-7]

okfine says: BUT CHINA!!!!

What about china?

 

[westwall]

If we continue on fossil fuels we will regress. The future is about moving on and not being stuck using 18th and 19th century energy sources.

So your solution is to go BACK in time with windmills.

You are a fucking moron.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yet another reason to go electric, an article on Wednesdays Omaha world herald December 29th 2021. Mexico to stop exporting oil in 2023. The US imported 599,000 barrels of oil a day from Mexico. They realize their oil fields won't last forever and they're keeping what they have for their own national self-sufficiency in fuel production. Fortunately US Auto companies are making the switch already that will help save us from $10 and $20 a gallon oil. Prices will be going through the roof, no more cheap oil. It's day is over. We may yet save the planet, despite ourselves.

So that is why Biden closed down the Keystone XL pipeline so we could not get more oil from Canada?

Mexico's plan will not succeed.

"Siller said that energy security, defined by the International Energy Agency as “the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price,” is more important to Mexico than self-sufficiency. “So ending all petroleum exports doesn’t look like a real possibility.”

Experts skeptical of Mexico plan to stop exporting oil by 2023

The biggest loser if President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's plan succeeds? U.S. drivers.

www.courthousenews.com

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Since oil is going to be too expensive for much of anything. It will have to be alternate energy sources. I understand it represents it a challenge, but what is this life is not full of challenges. When one door closes another one opens and vice versa. Here's a little reprise for you. Also on the news the nuclear talks at resumed with Iran. One of the assurances Iran wants is that they are once again able to sell their oil on the open market. This represents a huge opportunity to the United States. If they bought all that oil if they locked into it, it would help stop prices from rising so high and still make oil a little competitive but in the long run oil has to be done I think there's only like 40 more years of it left on the planet and that's exploiting all resources.

Oil wouldn't be as expensive if Biden hadn't louse everything up!

That will be fixed in 2023 when he and Harris are impeached, and the new Speaker becomes President.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It's not going to be cheaper, it's running out. There's only about 40 more years at best left in the total world supply.

Bullshit! I have heard that since I was old enough to read a paper, and I am 61 years old!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

There are lots of possibilities lots of scenarios. It will be a new chapter for mankind.

Why are you working so hard to prove to everyone how stupid you truly are?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I wish I could see the future, I don't know what's going to happen. But I do know what they say oil is running out. Can't wait till the last moment to switch that would be too late.

Who said it is running out? Morons, that's who!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

A very positive attitude. I don't think I'll live that long, I don't really want to. I'm just along for the ride at this point.

True. The stupid usually die young.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

When the big auto makers start making only electric vehicles the infrastructure better already be in place. It is part of Biden's build back better plan, and I believe my state plans on putting electric pumps. So the process has already started. Change is the only thing we can depend on in this life.

Electric pumps? You are completely lost!

The Build Back Better plan is DOA. Manchin killed it.