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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (81 children)

@Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Ardubal @Sodis

So

One #nuclear power station will buy about a million #electric cars. Most #EVs have a 300km range but most days go <30km.

So the mean available #energy capacity of all these cars would run the #UK for 24 hours using #V2G (Vehicle to grid)

This could be a massive #car share scheme with a couple of EVs on every street

Or #electricbuses

All the energy could come from #wind or #solar and the #battery fills the gaps when there is no wind

#climate

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (80 children)

@MattMastodon @Pampa @AlexisFR @Wirrvogel @Sodis

A few points to factor in:

- A nuclear power station has a much longer lifetime than batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines.

- You need not only the batteries, but also the panels/turbines to fill them.

- Conversion and storage losses are significant. Attached is a rough overview for Hโ‚‚.

- Transmission infrastructure costs to/from individual cars are significant.

- 24 h is not enough by far to balance out usual fluctuations.

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