Reply #32: Why are you replying to yourself?

[kristopher]

"There is enough excess capacity in the grid as it now exists to meet the needs of transportation. The plug in electric acts as a storage medium allowing both much more efficient use of the existing grid infrastructure and the replacement of that existing infrastructure by more intermittent sources like wind and solar.
The real point is that there is no need of greater innovation. Existing technologies in wind, solar and energy storage have the capability to cost effectively replace the existing fossil fuel infrastructure in both the personal transportation and electrical generation sectors. The only obstacle to price reduction is a failure on the part of policy makers to commit to a new infrastructure; a move that would ensure demand that leads to investment that leads to mass production and economy of scale price reductions..."

"Would you agree that with cheap storage, renewables can provide for home and personal transport? Solar, augmented by wind supported by cheap storage are the necessary ingredients, right? Figuring money is no object, you can go out right now and easily get somewhere between 80-100% off the grid right?

Mass produced lithium batteries and mass produced solar PV, mass produced solar thermal and mass produced home geothermal heat pumps; and we are most of the way there as we size each system for each home. Mass produced lithium batteries for EVs also, and mass produced EVs and we really really are almost there. Community scale and large projects of wind and solar feed a grid balanced by CAES on natural gas (70% reduction in fuel use from excess wind and solar production stored as compressed air).

It will work.

No coal.
Diminishing nuclear.
Very little natural gas; which we can get from renewable resources; no matter the scepticism of many here. I mean we have a lot of waste that is processed in this country, and we have a lot of farm waste that should be processed. These CAES could also run on biodiesel.

Remember the grid is only for minimal support for what your home system can't do.

Demand creates supply. Supply builds this infrastructure.

And everything is ready to deploy now. All that is required is to create a demand that will build the manufacturing base to reduce price."

And IDemo gives these sources:
"EV's, even those powered from coal burning plants, would have significantly reduced CO2 output compared to an equivalent number of internal combustion vehicles.

See - 'Debunking the Myth of EVs and Smokestacks'

Also, a study done by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) showed that up to 84% of our current light vehicle fleet could be powered electrically with no additional capacity added to the grid.

See - 'Mileage from Megawatts'"