If you are from Texas...Cybertruck can power a house

wanderingaimlessly wrote:

rlw999 wrote:


My energy doesn't come from the national average, in my state around 70% of our power comes from renewables (including large hydro). And the state-wide goal is for all utilities to be carbon neutral by 2030 and free of fossil fuels by 2045.

If you think your state's not generating enough power from renewables, talk to your legislators. But EV's are so much more energy efficient that studies show that an EV is cleaner than an gasoline powered car even when the electricity is generated from coal.

And ALL of it is made possible by the carbon fueled machines that mine the ore, the heavy metals used in the batteries, and drill for the petroleum used for everything from the plastics in your keyboard to the refined metals in the wires carrying your wannabe "Clean energy".

If we have to wait for everything to be converted to electric before starting to migrate to EVs, then no one could ever drive an EV. But even heavy mining equipment is being electrified (much of it is stationary or follows fixed routes)

The time to move to an alternative fuel source is while petroleum is relatively cheap. No one (well few) are saying that every use of petroleum needs to end, moving to EV's makes petroleum more available and cheaper for manufacturing products that need it.

OK Wa state has about 60% 0f the potential water power in the US, but they have not built a new plant in almost 50 years, but they are building new carbon plants.
wa state power
Hydro would be wonderful, but in much of the world, terrain wont support it. Even tidally many areas dont move enough to work well. Your home of Wa has about a 12 foot tidal rise and fall, Florida is about 1.5 to 2 feet.
A lot more hydro would help, but greenies fight every new project, and given a little more time, they will be shutting down solar farms for shading too many large areas as well as wind and the effects on birds as well as the sonic issues some areas are already resisting their usages due to.

Solar, wind will get the same activism halting their projects, that are already stopping new nuclear and hydro.
These same people will always have to oppose something. To believe anything else is nieve.

Again. Regional. Big brush. There are many new hydro projects as well as pumped hydro happening in the world. That and wind...and solar...and geothermal...and gravity. Grids will continue to get cleaner. But hang onto that dream of living in the 50’s.