[rsmurano]

The epa is a joke, they are all political these days. The Supreme Court just ruled a week ago that the epa was out of bounds in 1 of their directives and I hope the Supreme Court pursues all of their new directives.
You can’t shut down a nuclear plant for a day or 2 and then bring it back online.
Fear mongers, propagandists, and people that don’t know about how things work are trying to change something that is working pretty good. If you don’t believe me, listen to these same people trying to force EV’s onto people while they don’t know the electrical grid won’t handle the extra load, and California is forcing everybody to go the EV route at the same time telling their people not to charge their cars because the grid won’t handle it. Brilliant!

[tuccillo]

This is potentially troublesome. I have seen some calculations of how much additional electrical power would be needed if all autos (not trucks) were immediately replaced with EVs. The number is about 1T kWhs. To provide some context, this is roughly 25% of the current US annual power generations of 4T kWhs. In reality, the transition of autos to EVs may take about 20 years (or more) and that would seem to provide enough time to ramp up power generation. However, the power generation in the US has been flat at about 4T kWhs for about 15 years. We probably need a plan to ramp up power generation. Perhaps we have one?

Originally Posted by rsmurano

The epa is a joke, they are all political these days. The Supreme Court just ruled a week ago that the epa was out of bounds in 1 of their directives and I hope the Supreme Court pursues all of their new directives.
You can’t shut down a nuclear plant for a day or 2 and then bring it back online.
Fear mongers, propagandists, and people that don’t know about how things work are trying to change something that is working pretty good. If you don’t believe me, listen to these same people trying to force EV’s onto people while they don’t know the electrical grid won’t handle the extra load, and California is forcing everybody to go the EV route at the same time telling their people not to charge their cars because the grid won’t handle it. Brilliant!