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by einpoklum
860 days ago
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> We are building solar and wind aggressively That's absolutely not true. 68 GW nameplate capacity, or, say, 30 GW effective capacity, is a very small amount. The US consumed 4 Trillion kWH in 2022 [1], which, if assuming a peak consumption of twice the average, means up to, say 2.2 10^12 W. 68 GW is 6810^9 W, or 3% of the peak consumption. Even if my cocktail-napkin math is off by a factor of 2, that's still not much more than offsetting demand increases. And even if there were no demand increase - "aggressive" would mean 4x that amount, to be able to phase out fossil fuel power by 2030 or so. [1]: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect... |
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