400 mile electric RV

Timmo! wrote:

If a forest fire is caused by electric transmission lines, then it is not an act of nature. PG&E has caused more fires than Carters has pills. The need for building more transmission lines will increase exponentially as BEV ownership increases. Ergo, more fires.

Or, you know, PG&E could maintain its powerlines instead of sending money to shareholders:

Pacific Gas & Electric knew for years that dozens of its aging power lines posed a wildfire threat yet failed to replace or repair them, it was reported Wednesday. The company also reportedly spent $5 billion on shareholder dividends despite the need for repairs to decades-old equipment.

Windmills kill bird and requires a huge landmass (somewhere between 1/3 to 1/2 of USA) to provide the power this nation needs.

Everyone's an ecologist when it comes to wind turbines killing birds, but windmills kill an estimatedd 0.25 bird deaths per GWh of generated power, compared to 5.18 for Fossil Fuel plants. But both are dwarfed by birds killed by domestic cats, which kill over a billion birds a year.

Solar has a similar problem, and would require about 25% of USA's land to provide the power needed.

Source?

We also compare the solar electric footprint to a number of other land uses. For example, we find that the base case solar electric footprint is equal to less than 2% of the land dedicated to cropland and grazing in the United States, and less than the current amount of land used for corn ethanol production.