Here are some numbers for you to ponder over

bpost

I have been trying to come up with a way to show greenies that switching to all electric cars and trucks is a pie in the sky idea until we fill the power generation issue and the battery storage issue. I think I came up with a way.

POWER:

A gallon of #2 Diesel generates the equivalent of 41KWh. The USA burns about 128 million gallons of Diesel per day. That is a LOT of KWh.

A Gallon of Gasoline generates the equivalent of 33.7 KWh The USA burns about 369 Million gallons of gasoline each day. That is a LOT of KWh.

Total US electric generation from all sources was 4.116 Billion KWh.

The load at the end is balanced with production, electrons are going to go someplace. To replace the gas and diesel with electric is going to take a LOT of power. The math is beyond me but somewhere out there is how many average generating plants it would take to remove gas and diesel from use. People would be amazed to learn that nuke plants power about 20% of our grid, all out of 60 plants. If we built another 50-60 plants using nukes for power we could all drive electric cars with nary a concern.

bitlocker

Fusion?

bpost

If you take all the nuke waste from the beginning of nuke stuff from across the globe it would not fill a football stadium. The Russians just dumped hot reactors in the Bering Sea. That is probably not the best method to use but look what Commies did to the Aral Sea.....

Nuke waste can be solved, greenies will not let it happen. Let the greenies walk or ride a horse everywhere and I will at least understand their commitment to their cause.

cbxjeff

Sorry bpost, you can't argue with the greenies, their minds are made up. Don't try to confuse them with numbers!

Mr. Perfect

Given how un-green all the concrete for building nuclear facilities plus the stigma of reactor leaks (even though nuclear is by far the safest energy source) and this will never happen.

yoshmyster

I say burn coals until everybody get black lung.