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Power supply issues like this are why I am very skeptical of our whole planet going electric (vehicles and everything else). Perhaps in places like Norway where
by Cannabat 4y ago
Power supply issues like this are why I am very skeptical of our whole planet going electric (vehicles and everything else). Perhaps in places like Norway where power is plentiful due to hydroelectric plants [1], electric vehicles make sense.
[1] Even though Norway has plentiful power at the moment, this is a limited resource - melting glaciers provide the flow. Once the glaciers are gone, Norway will need another power production method to keep up. I think they have a while until the glaciers are gone, but we seem to be chronically underestimating the rate of the planet's ice melting.
- admax88qqq 4y agoElectricity is a great basis for energy exchange and usage. You can always generate electricity on site from other fuels in an emergency. You can't generate gasoline on site.
- GauntletWizard 4y agoElectricity is far easier to move, but far harder to move in a crisis. Gasoline can be trucked in for weeks at a time. High voltage power lines take months of planning. Smaller capacity lines en masse are impossible to route.
- admax88qqq 4y agoIf you're going to truck in some fuel for an emergency, you can truck in some generators too.
- sidewndr46 4y agoYou can create synthetic fuel from the air, not very effective but it works. You can grow corn (or any high sugar crop) and convert it to ethanol using fermentation and distillation. Making fuel isn't really that difficult. Making it cheaper than the oil industry can refine it from crude, that is nearly impossible.