re: Louisiana has Road Map to be More EV Friendly

i don’t have anything against your precious EV’s. And I haven’t posted anything to prove otherwise. So, yeah you seem angry.

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i don’t have anything against your precious EV’s. And I haven’t posted anything to prove otherwise. So, yeah you seem angry.

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I wasn't even talking to you ITT. You inserted yourself just to try to pick a fight. And you seemingly didn't even read enough to recognize that I'm mirroring another poster's language. And now, since you failed with that "angry" angle, now you're trying to act like you and I have been arguing over EVs (which we have not), and that's why I'm "angry".

And why? Because I'm not mad about black santa in that other thread?

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Powerman

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Checks out.

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And how are you going to fuel all this electricity? Nat gas ? So nat gas is going to be $30/m huh?

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Do you think people had the same concerns about where all the gasoline was going to come from a hundred years ago?

But to answer your question, natgas, coal, solar, wind, nuclear, wave/tide, geothermal, etc. Whatever works economically by region. The diversity of possible energy sources ensures long term downward price pressure and stability.

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100 million+ homes aren’t going to have solar panels anytime soon even then that’s not going to magically solve the energy need

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Magic is not necessary. A 100% EV fleet in the US would represent about a 25-30% increase over our other electricity consumption. And given that it will take 20-30 years to achieve that level of adoption, that means we will have to increase electricity production by roughly 1% per year. We managed to increase production at a much higher rate than that in the 90s when computers began to proliferate.

We actually have more than enough generation capacity today to handle the needs of a 100% EV fleet, if the majority of charging is done during typical off-peak hours. Worst case though the infrastructure improvement would need to happen at a slower pace than we've achieved in the past.

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A gallon of fuel burned in a generator to charge an EV will drive it further than burning the same gallon directly in a similar ICE vehicle.

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Typical ICE efficiency is 20%. This is chemical bond energy to mechanical energy to move the vehicle.

Typical natural gas turbine electric generation efficiency is about 30%.

In both scenarios you are breaking approximately the same number of carbon/hydrogen bonds despite gasoline containing mostly C6 molecules and natural gas containing just one C molecule to produce that energy.

The next issue for natural gas turbine electric generation is electrical transmission losses. This will vary drastically depending on how close your charging station is to the electrical generation station.

On one to one basis you might be saving a few Cs from getting converted to CO2 if you are using natural gas, but not much. The key is to use hydrogen, hyrdo, geo, nuclear, ammonia, wind, solar, etc. as your source of electricity production.

With that said you can capture the CO2 form the natural gas electricity plant and sequester it. But sequestration is not really solving the problem. Sequestration is just an oxygen mining project. 12/44 is the carbon from the fuel and 32/44 is the oxygen from the air. It would be better just to let that carbon dioxide cycle naturally through the carbon cycle, IMO. We need our oxygen.

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folks who are traveling in a growing national fleet of electric vehicles will bypass us

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Oh thank god

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These charge stations will have backup diesel power. You will have to in Louisiana. So it will cost more to power those to charge your car than it would be to just fill my car.

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Making things up on a whim can be fun but it's also stupid