Re: Power Demand
Street charging is not going to happen inside 100 years, it entails rebuilding almost the entire urban road network with new cables, I doubt any other country is even considering it as potentially viable.
The 30 year timescale involved for going carbon neutral is quite aggressive so we need to have a plan-B in operation as well as the 'electric everything' approach. The infrastructure to extract, refine & distribute oil based fuels exists on a global scale - it is only the extraction that is adding carbon (previously buried) to the atmosphere.
The logical thing would be find a way to extract carbon from the atmosphere and reprocess it back into fuel (zero increase). Extracting CO2 from air & Hydrogen from water is technically easy, producing synthetic hydrocarbons from base a little trickier but can be done. It may well eventually require a gigawatt level nuclear plant to provide the power for a full sized production plant equivilent to a current oil refinery but it's an option that should be seriously considered.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
