>>14131740No you need to go to the energy source (and I dont mean the sun).
Lets say the US uses 20 000 000 barrels of oil a day driving around, making plastics, drugs, chemicals etc.
Lets replace the "driving around with oil" with "driving around using electricity".
So where is the energy going to come from to replace the oil?
1 bbl oil contains 5.7 million BTU's
lets say 80% of oil use is ground transportation and the average automobile is 40% efficient (a tad high but electric cars are not 100%) ergo
20E6*.8*5.7E6 * .4 = 36.5 E12 BTU's need to be found each day for the electricity to replace the oil not used in cars.
Now the existing electrical grid is pretty much already tapped out. So lets move that off the table.
Ok exactly how much more electricity are we talking about?
36.5 E12 BTZU's per day = 36.5E12 BTU's every 24 hours
Lets convert to this to watts
36.5 E12 /24 (hours/day) / 3.42 (watts per BTU)
=445 992 MW
Put another way, thats equivalent to 66 Grand Coulee Dams ( the largest hydroelectric power station in the United States)
So where are they?
