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I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek, but if we stopped fighting one another and built a planet-circling grid (I have ofc made a modest proposal for a US/Europe
by DamonHD 9mo ago
I was being slightly tongue-in-cheek, but if we stopped fighting one another and built a planet-circling grid (I have ofc made a modest proposal for a US/Europe interconnector including wind generation along its route) then the issue would become transmission from where electricity is being generated to matching (EV) charging demand.
- jjk166 9mo agoI mean even then the world is pretty boned when the sun is over the Pacific https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2ACFBN3/pacific-ocean-satellite-image-of-the-earth-centred-on-the-pacific-ocean-with-hawaii-at-upper-centre-clouds-are-white-oceans-are-blue-and-land-is-g-2ACFBN3.jpg https://c7.alamy.com/comp/2ACFBN3/pacific-ocean-satellite-im... You could build some floating megastructures to hold a bunch of solar panels out in the ocean, but making batteries seems a little easier.
- DamonHD 9mo agoOr you could call them interconnectors strung with solar and wind generation. In any case, if PV is available from somewhere on the globe much of each 24h, and cars are plugged in to recharge then (typical UK cars are parked ~96% of the time), then it's mainly a transmission problem again, maybe?