Perhaps someone can explain where is the advantage to electrifying everything? Consider motor vehicles only for a while. Horsepower is horsepower whether it comes from fossil fuel or electricity. Electricity has to be generated somehow. There is no conversion system that is 100% efficient. Energy is lost every time. Energy is required to mine the materials needed to make the battery. Is the mining equipment electric? Energy is required to charge the batteries and energy is lost in the charging process. Batteries have a useful lifespan and they have to be replaced at a very high cost. A few hundred mile range for an electric vehicle will not satisfy the average family vacation plans.
In all the clean energy information out there, I see no mention of the electric energy consumed by industry. The amount of horsepower used in all the manufacturing plants has to dwarf the energy used in road travel. Those factories will still be needed to produce the vehicles and all the devices that use electricity that allow civilization to function. Solar panel have about a 20 year life span and so do large windmill electric generators. How many horsepower does it take to manufacture, ship and replace a windmill? I doubt if anyone has calculated the total amount of horsepower used daily in the U.S. alone, let alone the world. How many acres of solar fields and how many windmills would it take to generate that much horsepower on a daily basis. When the sun does not shine or the wind does not blow, then what?
Bob
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