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Originally Posted by accord1999
It's very substantial; the problem though to electrify transportation is now you'll need 60%-100% more electricity generation and hundreds of millions of batteries with several TWh of total storage.
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Yes, this is assuming a clean energy solution. Which, while burn_this_city is "not convinced any of the alternatives will be sufficient" (even though more energy from the Sun hits the Earth per day than we have used ever), we could already have with the current (abhorrently underfunded and under researched) green technologies.
http://www.ted.com/talks/debate_does...gy?language=en
This is a debate of Renewables vs Nuclear. Mark Z. Jacobson argues that if all renewables were implemented properly, as tech exists today, they could supply what we currently use.