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My (implied) point was that for every engine / machine that runs on gas / coal, there's an electric alternative. If the goal is to adopt 100% clean / renewable
by krasin 11y ago
My (implied) point was that for every engine / machine that runs on gas / coal, there's an electric alternative. If the goal is to adopt 100% clean / renewable energy, we should count the electricity needs as the current electricity consumption + the electricity we need to run the replacement engines / machines. And that number is going to be significantly higher than wind can deliver.
- pbreit 11y agoApparently you're wrong and we haven't even gotten to other sources such as hydro and solar.
- krasin 11y agoHydro (and geo-thermal) are good, but not universally available. Nor California, nor Israel would find it as an option. In opposite, both are desalinating the water using fossil fuels, just to cover basic needs. Solar sounds much better; and its potential crop is much higher than wind. Also, I am not saying that clean/distributed energy system is impossible. I am saying that the metric used in the article is misleading.