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Originally Posted by RedDevil
130 TWh. That's the combined capacity of give or take 2 million Tesla cars.
Hook them up to the net most of the time, there's your emergency power supply.
Of course there aren't 2 million Tesla's around yet. Only half a million. There are more than 2 million electric cars in the world though, and the number is rising fast.
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Check your math. I think you are off. I get 1.3 billion, 100kWh large electric car packs to make 130 TWh. Which gives us a mere 16 hours of storage for half of the amount of energy we are now using which is about 400 TWh per day currently.
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The remaining oil will generally be out of reach for most commercial and civilian uses within 30 years. Natural gas will become remote in 70 years.
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But I do believe we should work within the current system momentum to build out as much wind and solar and resilient housing and rail as possible, utilizing a wold wide Green New Deal, in the meantime to forge a clean energy bridge to extend what we have left to buy another century in order to shift human existence back toward a low tech permaculture existence with the minimum amount of pain as is possible. Even if most of the wind turbines will eventually age out and rot in the fields when we run out of resources and liquid fuel to take care of them.