Environmental scam... Not enough lithium in the world to go "green"
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I have read that all the lithium on earth could make batteries enough to power the earth for just 20 minutes. Therefore, impossible.
On the other hand, I have a plan that might actually work, if someone took it seriously.
In the current power system, we have a large grid. All the power plants are hooked up to it, so if one goes down, the others take up the slack. No storage batteries are required.
If all the windmills and solar panels were hooked into a worldwide series of grids, if the sun wasn't shining or the wind wasn't blowing somewhere, the power would come from elsewhere. The main thing we would need is power transmission crossways of time zones so the power could go from light areas to dark areas.
You will always lose a lot of energy across vast distances and that's why there is a problem with that. There is essentially no way to fix that
High voltage is how cross-country lines do that currently. The whole east coast is one huge grid. The west is another grid. And Texas is the third grid in the US.
If the energy is from the sun and wind and essentially free, it doesn't matter if there's waste. There's a ton of waste in our current system.
The problem is that they aren't free. They have ecological consequences -- before, during and after the life.
We would essentially need to overhaul a massive number of different aspects of technology with a ton of new discoveries and R&D philosophies, and even then solar is already incredibly inefficient and even Elon doesn't believe it'll get more efficient and he's as much of a solar shill as the next.
I didn't say the system is free. The energy itself is free.