Mmmmm Electric cars... Soo good for the environment....
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if you do the maths, you discover the grid would need to be expanded by 1000 times (yes 1000, its gigawatts v.s. petawatts by state) to handle the current population. this endorses the plan to drop the population significantly.
Good point. I haven't done the math on that. I've done it with windmills. Some of the memes floating around are wrong - windmills can pay for themselves, just like electric vehicles can. But the payoff comes late in the life of autos, assuming nothing goes wrong along the way. The payoff for windmills isn't so bad, but I didn't find much in the way of maintenance costs and refurb costs (which is normal for industrial sized equipment), so the true payoff is hard to pin down. And both of those assumes that the existing grid can sustain them, and the environmental cost is a wash with other forms of transportation and power generation.
BTW, none of the info on windmills I found included the cost of power lines, switching stations, grid management, and land acquisition. Minor details, I suppose.....
you don't even have to consider the maintenance or infra-structure. CA barely maintains 200GWh per year and imports another 100GWh per year and the infrastructure is maxxed out. the average gas car gobbles .6mi/Kwh. you figure 25M cars in CA (low) and 15,000mi/year on ave. you wind up with 225 petawatt hours. this is the additional load. it's not an additional 200Gwh, it's a little more by, maybe 1,000. you can mess with the numbers (better gas mileage, lower average miles, fewer gas cars to convert) but you still wind up with ratio's of 80-100x on the low end and 1000x on the high end. realizing you're dealing with the gov, the actual will be 4,000x. the answer is, its a sham and cannot possibly be accomplished -and maintain everyone's current lifestyle. someone has to die because they have zero intention of expanding infrastructure, and they could care less about lifestyle, especially after you don't have guns. you can also calculate using 33.7kwh/gal if you want to mess with mileage efficiency for gas cars. it comes out nearly the same, someone has to die for lifestyle to be maintained.
Definitely good supporting evidence for the global population reduction.
You make a point about the grid regarding the importation of 100GWh into CA. That's hard on the grid. The grid could support a fair bit more load with local power generation. But I'm sure the DS knows that as well.