A brass tacks discussion on EV and Hybrid logging tucks Vs. the grid https://video.nostr.build/b6695d1475a86462ea7535136c7beef175cf54e32f6aca59c798a90c667ad547.mp4
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Watts is a rate of energy. Battery capacity is not rated in watts. An electrical dam generally is extremely low wattage per dollar spent. This guy is throwing up strawmen as arguments, and since nobody is there to refute him he sounds smart waving his hands around in his fancy red plaid jacket.
You sounding like a complete asshat aside, he is wrong. Just not wrong about any of the things you're bringing up. He's conflating MW with MWh.
Presuming 12 hrs of operation/day, those trucks use 210 kW for a total of 2,500 kWh/day. Site C will create 1,100,000 kW or 26,400,000 kWh each day.
Roughly twice what's need for the logging trucks daily, but it's still a lot.
Thanks fuckface. I agree with the statement the battery technology isnt practical for logging trucks. My point is every argument against electric vehicles assumes the electrical grid will never be improved, battery technology will never improve to meet their corner use case, we will never find more efficient ways to acquire raw materials as demamd increaaes, and anyone that wants an electric vehicle is an eco nazi. I personally give a shit less about CO2 emissions, fracking causing tremors under indian burial plots, or some fucking turtle eggs being laid where they want to put in a pipeline. Regardless of my opinion about abiogenic hydrocarbons being pumped from the ground, I still prefer electric vehicles for countless reasons.
Not everyone has our abundance mindset. In fact, I'd say the mainstream framing to the general public is that energy is finite… which is patently false.
His company makes series hybrids. Which is more efficient than a diesel engine that's constantly changing RPMs. He concedes that he would do full EV if the tech or grid was there, but it's not.