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thing is, you can't beat oil energy density. And its logistic. going 100% electric is really something big, maybe too big. A good exemple is synthetic fuel: in
by logtempo 3y ago
thing is, you can't beat oil energy density. And its logistic. going 100% electric is really something big, maybe too big.
A good exemple is synthetic fuel: in Germany, they have really hard issues on biomass collect which is needed for "green fuel". As of today, synthesis come from coal.
And we're talking about Germany,not France.
France, who would need to triple its production of electricity to replace its oil consumption from cars.
and I did not talked about the cropland needed for "biogas" and ethanol fuel.
concrete, steel, agro-industry too...the list is long.
- snek_case 3y agoThis is why I said we can use electricity to produce ethanol or methanol. > France, who would need to triple its production of electricity to replace its oil consumption from cars. That seems very doubtful. Do some napkin math. A Tesla Model 3 long range has a ~75KWh battery pack. That gives it an EPA range of ~550KM. If you assume that the average person drives 1/3 of that every day (generous), there's no way that you need to triple electric production to cover that.