Your statistic is meaningless. Claiming that this is somehow the answer to our energy crunch where we have rolling black outs and heating shortages ishows a lack of understanding. The physics of it won’t allow it.
You are postulating replacing all cars with these inefficient beasts. I ask you where the electricity will come from and you cite a silly article. I show how much of the overall production of energy your beloved green stuff produces and you give more meaningless statistics. You don’t address the overall inefficiency of those sources. Since we are killing coal and nuclear and only private lands are being used for new oil and gas your fifty percent of new is not useful.
I your last comment is laughable. When was the most recent nuke plant built?
How many Mw do your wonderful new plants produce? How many cities do they run? These are small scale, few hundred Megas output.... Your theories are about as valid as those who want ethanol in part or in whole
All right.
You have convinced me that you do not believe that electric cars can happen.
Further you have convinced me that you believe that electric cars will never happen.
Finally, you have convinced me that if you do see electric cars on the road, you’ll consider them to be either a fantasy or an affront.
This is all good. No worries.
I do think that the pubbies will likely slash subsidies to solar and wind if they get the white house in 2016. But any fall off in new electrical supplies that causes will be made up for by natural gas — as is currently happening in California. The drought there has cut hydro production in half. The extra electricity is being generated by natural gas sources.
Similarly there is a great danger that the turbines for the hoover dam will be shut off because of falling water levels. This will shut off electricity to large sections of the southwest. However, some of the new large solar farms coming on stream are expected to take up some of the slack. How much I don’t know.
I’m not a greenie. I think its a shame what the greens are doing to the coal industry. And what they would do to oil and natural gas if they could.
That said, I think its a great blessing to have as many sources of energy as possible for the same reason that it best to have many sources of income. You don’t know when one will go bust.