Lol I buy more stock in Tesla! But in all seriousness I don’t think we have the capacity for a full scale EV cutover yet, not with the push against fossil fuels. The precious green energy, ie solar and wind, combined with the Obama era war on coal, almost put Texas in the dark this past winter.
I do think Q was giving us a heads up of what’s to come on this subject. It’ll surely affect comms too, but I believe there will still be pockets of both up and running even in one of the worse case scenarios. Honestly now that these questions are being asked, major comms blackout seems most likely to happen along with targeted electricity blackouts. Of course I have no knowledge of any plan, just a deep understanding of electric grid operations
In all seriousness. Given current output and the state of the grid in places.
Do any transmission lines even have the capacity to handle the electric swap over. Or are we looking at 50 years before the grid could be beefed up to actually handle the EV issue?
The way I was looking it is was we are closer to them mandating all EV no fosile, and everyone loses their AC.
Or we are lookking at nuke plants being built coast to.coast. And new transmission lines.
You’re exactly right - The transmission lines don’t have the capacity yet. We’re playing catch-up right now spending billions every year just in my area to relieve the prior year’s congestion. Pretty much been chasing our tail for the last 10 years.
Wind farms aren’t reliable nor is solar for the amount of money that goes into building one. Nuclear is feasible in terms of capacity but the regulations, money, and sheer man-power it takes to bring one online is monumental.
They can mandate all they want but I don’t think we’re physically capable of handling it. Just speculation but I’d say we’re 15 years minimum if it’s a gradual cutover and if grid infrastructure spending is maxed. Which means higher power bills. Hopefully there won’t be mandates though
What happens when 100 million americans all go home in the evening and plug in an electric car?
Lol I buy more stock in Tesla! But in all seriousness I don’t think we have the capacity for a full scale EV cutover yet, not with the push against fossil fuels. The precious green energy, ie solar and wind, combined with the Obama era war on coal, almost put Texas in the dark this past winter.
I do think Q was giving us a heads up of what’s to come on this subject. It’ll surely affect comms too, but I believe there will still be pockets of both up and running even in one of the worse case scenarios. Honestly now that these questions are being asked, major comms blackout seems most likely to happen along with targeted electricity blackouts. Of course I have no knowledge of any plan, just a deep understanding of electric grid operations
In all seriousness. Given current output and the state of the grid in places.
Do any transmission lines even have the capacity to handle the electric swap over. Or are we looking at 50 years before the grid could be beefed up to actually handle the EV issue?
The way I was looking it is was we are closer to them mandating all EV no fosile, and everyone loses their AC.
Or we are lookking at nuke plants being built coast to.coast. And new transmission lines.
You’re exactly right - The transmission lines don’t have the capacity yet. We’re playing catch-up right now spending billions every year just in my area to relieve the prior year’s congestion. Pretty much been chasing our tail for the last 10 years.
Wind farms aren’t reliable nor is solar for the amount of money that goes into building one. Nuclear is feasible in terms of capacity but the regulations, money, and sheer man-power it takes to bring one online is monumental.
They can mandate all they want but I don’t think we’re physically capable of handling it. Just speculation but I’d say we’re 15 years minimum if it’s a gradual cutover and if grid infrastructure spending is maxed. Which means higher power bills. Hopefully there won’t be mandates though