My main concern is that people are only now starting to realise the problem. If we ignore the trendy AI, electricity usage was set to double anyway. If you ban cars that run on fossil fuels and replace them with electric vehicles then that will cause a doubling of electricity usage all by itself.
The other problem is the proposed solutions. If you see how much energy a wind farm can generate in a year and divide that into the total energy usage of a country you can get an approximation to how many of those wind farms you would need to run the country. When I put in the numbers, the US would need a wind farm that covered an area of 8 times that of Texas!
Similarly for the UK, I found a solar plant's area and yearly output and worked out how many acres would be needed to replace our largest power station. The answer was around 400 square miles!
If our governments were responsible then these figures would be known, and publicised, upfront.
In the case of the UK which is a tiny country compared to many, we do not have thousands of square miles available for "sustainable" energy solutions. Even worse, we complain that we cannot feed ourselves because we do not have enough farms and then we need to built a new house every two minutes to cope with the influx of immigrants.
Our government are more interested in collecting Brownie Points rather than thinking through the problems. They are just "travelling hopefully."
Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles. If you take that times 8, you get 2,150,560 square miles. The total square miles in the United States (including Alaska) is 3,809,525 which means that the wind farm would cover at least two thirds of the country. You might be wise to incorporate this information into a post. More people need to see your comment.
My main concern is that people are only now starting to realise the problem. If we ignore the trendy AI, electricity usage was set to double anyway. If you ban cars that run on fossil fuels and replace them with electric vehicles then that will cause a doubling of electricity usage all by itself.
The other problem is the proposed solutions. If you see how much energy a wind farm can generate in a year and divide that into the total energy usage of a country you can get an approximation to how many of those wind farms you would need to run the country. When I put in the numbers, the US would need a wind farm that covered an area of 8 times that of Texas!
Similarly for the UK, I found a solar plant's area and yearly output and worked out how many acres would be needed to replace our largest power station. The answer was around 400 square miles!
If our governments were responsible then these figures would be known, and publicised, upfront.
In the case of the UK which is a tiny country compared to many, we do not have thousands of square miles available for "sustainable" energy solutions. Even worse, we complain that we cannot feed ourselves because we do not have enough farms and then we need to built a new house every two minutes to cope with the influx of immigrants.
Our government are more interested in collecting Brownie Points rather than thinking through the problems. They are just "travelling hopefully."
Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles. If you take that times 8, you get 2,150,560 square miles. The total square miles in the United States (including Alaska) is 3,809,525 which means that the wind farm would cover at least two thirds of the country. You might be wise to incorporate this information into a post. More people need to see your comment.
The world is in need of a worldwide revolution. No wonder why Q said that the military is the only way.