>>>>> Much better than filling the landscape with windmills (that won’t turn most of the time where I live) or expensive, inefficient solar panels. <<<<<
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If we replace oil with electricity, we are going to have to build some 300 new coal-fired power plants, or gas-fired power plants, or hydroelectric power plants, or geothermal power plants, or nuclear power plants, or millions and millions of bird-killing windmills, or thousands and thousands of square miles of solar farms, to produce all that new electricity it will take to run our cars. And we’ll have to build thousands and thousands of miles of new power lines criss-crossing the country to transport all the extra electricity to where hundreds ofmillions of cars are plugged in
You are correct. The reality is that cars run on electricity already. Each car is essentially a generator powered by gasoline.
Now we want to remove the power for the generator, and ‘consolidate’ it into the National Electric Grid.
I was just thinking about powering homes and buildings, not charging electric cars. One mini reactor would power every house in my county, or make it two to account for businesses and future growth. Install these things near where they will be needed, and you won’t need the grid like you do now. There will be no reason to transmit power hundreds of miles from the power plant to the city. As for powering cars, DRILL BABY DRILL!!!