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Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoWe’ve had electric car in a major capacity since the late 2010s, why is it all of a sudden this big problem?
AI is a major energy consumer, requiring their own damn nuclear reactors.
I can’t imagine we currently produce enough electricity for every car to be electric.
Plus all the production processes for the cars themselves, and the energy to power them puts off waste heat. Even solar panels benefit from running cooler by having heat removed from them.
We can cover the current population of EV used, but we couldn’t cover the full population of car users on evs. Which means we need to expand our power production.
And given that most people are likely charging at night when production decreases…
…they should charge at work during peak solar and run their homes off their car batteries at night. That’s where you were going, right?
You going to force companies to provide chargers in their parking lots? Hell, plenty of people have to pay their employees to park their car at work already. You think they’re just going to give free electricity?
Mine was kinda that we do if we could adjust our patterns and habits a little bit to live with the world as it is vs imposing ourselves on it. Forcing “companies” (read corpos) to do something other than maximize extraction is a big part of that
toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Its been a problem for a very long time now, electric cars require large amounts of electricity to charge and that needs to be supplied through the residential grid. Higher use of electric cars means more electricity necessary. Electric cars usage is still going up and that is not likely to change soon. As for the more important part: Lots of power plants are not green, and replacing them means building more power generators. This device converts heat to (green) electricity. How could you possibly see this as a negative?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
in theory.
Lots of these startups fail on practical applications.