Reply #182: Depends,

[MadHound]

Are you willing to put some serious government money behind it, you know, the kind of money that they like to put into nuclear?

If we put 600 billion into the project, in the form of direct consumer loans, then we can redo every single house in this country, it would be only a matter of time.

At the peak of the boom there were 1.2 million houses being built every year. Since this is a retrofit, it would go faster and we could hire extra workers (ooo, job's program) to help out. We could probably retrofit ten times that number in a year, approximately 12 million houses/year.

There are approximately 140 million houses in this country, you could retrofit each house in this country within twelve years. If you started working on the smart grid at the same time, it would be done within the same amount of time (I'm basing this on how fast this country ran fiber optic lines in both the US and Canada).

A nuclear plant takes approximately eight years to built, so I would say that the time table for such conversion is favorable when comparing it with nuclear.