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by Schroedingersat 1349 days ago
> Your comments are pointless, insulting. Now you are calling me insane.

> My findings were confirmed by none other than Elon Musk

> We have a 1200 GW deficit in power generation and distribution. No amount of intelligent management is going to make up for this. Not one bit. Not enough. Not even close. This isn't a rounding error, this is a serious hole in future power capacity; a precondition for EV deployment

There are a few possibilities as to how you could get to 1200GW

You could have gotten there by looking at the energy content of every gram of oil that enters the US and assuming it would all need to be replaced with electricity. Which would indicate that you at least failed to understand what a combustion engine is.

You could have gotten there by assuming that every EV is a tesla and needs to be fully charged every day. In which case you have at least failed to understand what an EV is.

You could have gotten there by assuming around 10kWh/day per car, but assuming that peak demand would be 10x average. In which case by proposing enough idle capacity to meet said demand will be provided by nuclear power you are assuming people will be happy to pay $1.50/kWh wholesale for their electricity and $150 to fill their teslas.

Or finally you could be intentionally spreading disinformation about renewables.