[asien]

Appreciate the graph in the article , this time the numbers actually are calculated by engineers from DoE , not by Journalists...

Even if the plan is there , without an “economy of war” and the implication of basically every single American it’s nearly impossible to reach those types of deployment.

Money is not the answer to everything , as pointed we are also going to reach “civilization” types of limits with land and ressource exhaust...

My humble opinion is we should simply consume far less energy and accept a much simpler lifestyle, that would be much easier ...

[megaman821]

Did we read the same article? The land usage for wind and solar is about that of golf courses and coal. Getting permits to use the land is the main obstacle.

As for resource constraints, the limiting factor is the speed on which a lithium mines can come online. The bulk of the that being environment reviews and lawsuits.

Americans are just going to have to come to terms with building or mining stuff causes localized environmental damage and other externalities for the communities that live close by. We should weight the pros and cons and move swiftly with whatever the decision is.

[diordiderot]

Lithium isn't even in the top twenty of mined metal. It would also be relatively cheap to recycle at scale.

Problems are political, i.e monied interests not environmental, technological, or even financial.

Should also be optimistic about non lithium solid state batteries!

>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/all-tonnes-metals-ore...

[kjkjadksj]

Honestly as a golfer, a windmill in the middle of the fairway would make for an interesting hole

[epistasis]

Mini-golf, but life size?

[Xorakios]

Perfect :)