Reply #16: Where is the redesign? Most new power plants in the US are natural gas anyway.

[joshcryer]

I am typing on power provided in part by a natural gas station here in my city (the main plant is coal though). That's what bugs me about this plan, it doesn't change the paradigm, and it relies too much on variables that can go either way. If your "storage capacity" relies on, for instance, millions of BEVs, then you are going to be delayed significantly in your ability to move off of fossil fuels. Sure, 1,100 million metric tonnes of CO2 reduction is pretty good, but when natural gas (heating+cooking) and petroleum release 6,000 million a year, it doesn't seem all that much.