ELECTRIC DEMANDGlobe and Mail reporting that Britain is banning diesel and gasoline powered vehicles by 2040. Apparently, France has already made this committment. This includes hybrids being banned. I asume that Hydrogen powered vehicles will be exempt.
How will they meet this electric demand?
Bearing in mind the length of time it takes to build out a nuke in western society - so many more walls to get over.
Bear also in mind that burning hydrocarbons - natural gas, oil, coal - to generate electricity to power vehicles will result in greater pollution than directly burning the fuel in the vehilce. And there is no security of supply with hydrocarbons. Nuclear is energy dense, you can store 5 years worth of power in one small structure - you can't do that with hydrocarbons, can you? Espically, if you are a country like Japan and South Korea that have negligable domestic sources of hydrocarbons. Japan went to war once over interference with their access to hydrocarbons. It is only a matter of time for all of Japan's 42 idled reactors to come online and South Korea reversing their recent decision to get out of the Nuclear generating business.
Renewables? - Not enough time to get the constancy - storage issue figured out.
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