Who is going to pay for the magic money tree needed to switch to battery powered EV’s in California and elsewhere?
Who is going to pay for the magic money tree needed to switch to battery powered EV’s in California and elsewhere?
Regular readers will recall many references to this article:
The People Promising Us 'Net Zero' Are Clueless About Energy Storage - Climate Change Dispatch
In it there are statements like this one:
“Get out a spreadsheet to do some calculations based on actual historical patterns of usage and generation from wind and solar sources, and you will find that to have a full wind-and-solar generation system and make it through a year without a catastrophic failure, you will need approximately a three-times overbuild (based on rated capacity) of the wind/solar system, plus storage for something in the range of 24 – 30 days of average usage.”
“California’s average electricity usage for 2020 was about 31 GW; Australia’s was about 26 GW; New York’s was about 18 GW.”
“So California will need about 22,302 GWH of storage, Australia about 18,720 GWH, and New York about 12,960 GWH. That is to supply current levels of demand.
For the “everything electrified” case, triple all of these numbers: 66,906 GWH for California, 56,160 GWH for Australia, and 38,880 GWH for New York.
Price that out at current costs of Tesla-type lithium-ion batteries (~$150/KWH) and you will get around $10 trillion for California, $8.4 trillion for Australia, and $5.8 trillion for New York.”
Ok, so – based in current demand, not the growth of maybe another 25% over the next 12 years – the cost is 10 trillion bucks to provide the basic demands.”
That’s before the costs of the extra transmission lines and hardware infrastructure for all the “accessories” to make this happen. Or the costs of all the ugly eyesores of extra “windmill forests” and “solar panel plantations” and all the land required to put them on – it also excludes the horrific costs of killing off entire eco systems of flora and fauna occupying the sequestered land or the open cast mining required to produce all the batteries and electronics in the EV’s.
So much for the “One Health” approach of the soon to be signed changes to the International Health Regulations that treat animals and plants the same as equivalents!
Real Clear Investigations has a piece out today that provides a few numbers on the size of the massive and “doomed to fail” boondoggle of only having EV’s on California roads by 2035.
The article quotes a few relatively innocuous requirements to enable the impossible goal. Future technology will have a better solution – it does not exist today, so every single windmill, solar panel, charger, transmission line – all of it – will be obsolete probably BEFORE the 2035 deadline and will simply be abandoned and left to leech into the groundwater.
“In California, which is slated to ban sales of new gasoline-powered cars in just 12 years, government estimates indicate the state may need to install at least 20 electric chargers for every gas pump now in service to create a reliable, seamless network.”
20 chargers per gas pump? Ok, how many gas pumps?
“By comparison, California now has about 11,000 gas stations, convenience stores, and other businesses that sell gasoline, which roughly converts to about 110,000 individual gas nozzles, according to an estimate by Jeff Lenard, vice president of Strategic Industry Initiatives at the National Association of Convenience Stores. That means the transition from fossil fuels to electrons will require California to install at least 20 EV charging ports for every gas nozzle by 2035.”
Uh huh. Remember this is compulsion by the State. All those 11,0000 refuelling points with their 110,000 nozzles MUST be ripped out according to the chicken little sycophants that believe in the faux science of the UN IPCC.
Incidentally, everyone see this? THERE’S AN ICE AGE ON THE WAY IN 10 YEARS OR SO!!!!
Renowned Arctic Scientist Debunks 'Climate Crisis,' Warns 'Ice Age' Is Coming - Slay News
“We will inevitably transition to an unfavorable cold,” he warned, according to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). According to Fedotov, the director of the Limnological Institute of the RAS, the period of “unfavorable cold” will begin around 2030.”
Moving on!
Progress so far “Despite California’s massive infrastructure investment, now totaling nearly 94,000 public chargers, the state has fallen behind its goal of 250,000 public chargers by 2025 – and potentially 10 times that number by 2035, when the ban on new gasoline-powered cars takes effect.”
Out of how any chargers needed? (Forget the rewiring and new transmission lives from all the windmill forests and solar panel plantations for now).
“According to a California Energy Commission assessment, California will need more than 2.4 million public chargers to accommodate about 15.5 million electric cars, trucks, and buses by 2035. That breaks down to 2.11 million chargers (including 83,000 fast chargers) to support 15.2 million electric cars, as well as 256,000 depot chargers and 8,500 public chargers for 377,000 trucks and buses.”
“Despite California’s massive infrastructure investment, now totaling nearly 94,000 public chargers, the state has fallen behind its goal of 250,000 public chargers by 2025 – and potentially 10 times that number by 2035, when the ban on new gasoline-powered cars takes effect. “
Ok, so 2.11 million chargers needed by 2035 with 94,000 so far. Just the odd few million to go!
That’s not all that is needed either:
“EV sales are creeping up, but nowhere near the ambitious targets set by the policy experts, accounting for under 8% of new car sales in the third quarter, and rising to nearly 10% in September. California is at the vanguard of the nation’s EV transition, with more than 1 million electric vehicles among the state’s 31-million-plus registered vehicles, and EVs accounting for about 25% of new car sales in the second quarter.”
1 million EV’s out of 31 million registered vehicles. Watch out of quarantine camps for non-EV car dealers shortly!
Beyond 2035 to 2050?
“The 2.4 million chargers would serve only half the registered vehicles in the state. Many more will be necessary to complete the second half of the transition, from 15.5 million EVs to more than 31 million EVs by mid-century.”
Ok, so how much do charging stations and a charger actually cost? Forget the cost of making the filling stations safe and re=purposed.
“The cost of building a fast-charging station with four or more charging ports can range from several hundred thousand dollars to more than $1 million, depending on the cost of labor, trenching, and power grid upgrades.”
“The state doesn’t keep track of the estimated hundreds of thousands of private chargers that are typically housed in someone’s garage and operate at 120 volts to provide between 3 miles and 5 miles of range for every hour of overnight charging.
600 bucks. But watch out for explosions!
Or 20 million pound airports with car park fires! (Love the reference to Range Rover shit boxes, monogrammed asbestos underwear needed!)
Luton Airport car park fire: What the media is not saying | Auto Expert John Cadogan - YouTube
Check out this “Do as you’re told, install these chargers and lose money” statement to retailers (who will be compelled to install the chargers) from State officials (State officials = members of the Cult of Moloch”.
“California officials say that chargers operating at convenience stores and other retailers will have to depend on selling other amenities to make money, basically operating as loss-leaders. A 2022 report from the California Energy Commission notes: “Revenue from electricity sales alone is often not enough today for chargers to be profitable, especially for stations with lower utilization.”
The California Energy Commission describes other potential risks, such as state-subsidized, money-losing chargers being decommissioned.”
“In addition, profitability of charging in and of itself may not be the primary goal of an installation,” the agency said. “For example, charging installed at a workplace, retail establishment, or apartment or condo building may be part of an attractive package of benefits and to drive customers to shopping centers and restaurants or local residents to parks.”
Uh huh.
Here’s a look at California’s State budget summary for last year from here:
The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Spending Plan (Final Version) (ca.gov)
“California’s forecasts, investments, and challenges show the EV transition in a fuller light. To date, the state has committed at least $14 billion for EV infrastructure development and clean transportation, the money coming mostly from taxpayers.”
See how this compares to the 10 trillion bucks estimated to make the full transition by 2050 shown above? These planners and politicians are oblivious to arithmetic and other people’s money. They simply have no concept of value or, indeed, think dollars have any relevance to any decisions ad long term planning. Neither do communists, Marxists and Maoists otherwise known as, Cult of Moloch.
Onwards!
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It is INTENDED to be a massive LOSS to humanity. Only their own friends will enjoy the profits (at taxpayer expense) and the ultimate goal of COLLAPSING the largest economy in the U.S. will have ALSO been achieved.
Nothing pharma (and their servants in the agencies) did to us really made any sense UNTIL we came to understand that THIS IS AN EXTERMINATION. And the (somewhat) "voluntary" portion, via the jabs, is OVER. Now they move on to mass starvation. Collapsing California is a very big step toward collapsing this Nation.
I switched to EVs ten years ago, and I ain't turning back. Saved me a fortune, lovely ride, and a must have technology. By the way, I am not a millionaire, just an unpaid carer and part time low-paid worker.
Oh, and yes, I charge my car off my solar panels, and the government even pays me to do so through the feed in tariff and is contractually obliged to do so for another ten years, index linked.
Your article is not just ignorant, it is profoundly stupid. Talk to the pioneers: we walk the walk, and we stand by our decisions. My solar rooftop panels drive my car for 10,000 miles a year, Now go wash your mouth out in disinfectant.