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The amount of harvestable energy from sustainable resources is a few orders of magnitude more than what is/was available from all the oil and gas that ever exis
by Workaccount2 2y ago
The amount of harvestable energy from sustainable resources is a few orders of magnitude more than what is/was available from all the oil and gas that ever existed on Earth. The amount of energy that hits the Earth from the sun in one week alone is more than all oil and gas reserves on Earth combined. Twice over.
We'll be fine.
- vlovich123 2y agoHarvesting that efficiently is still a problem and requires comparatively large tracts of land. More importantly time shifting that daytime solar is a huge problem and you can’t handwave it away; this article is talking about how we’ve grossly underestimated the amount of resources needed for vehicle EV while grid batteries would shift that even more. We might get lucky with a totally new battery chemistry, but battery chemistry moves relatively slowly.