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I'd say under 10,000 GWh/day required, because: a) The LLNL flow charts are for primary energy, not energy services; an electric vehicle can travel further on
by philipkglass 10y ago
I'd say under 10,000 GWh/day required, because:
a) The LLNL flow charts are for primary energy, not energy services; an electric vehicle can travel further on a megajoule of electricity than an internal combustion vehicle can travel on a megajoule of diesel fuel.
b) Long distance shipping, airlines, and (probably) long distance trucking are not going to replace liquid fuels with batteries. Either there's going to be residual use of fossils for those smaller applications or electricity will be used to make synthetic liquids; either way those segments aren't going to contribute to battery requirements.