Next, I cannot imagine ripping out the power grid to the home and running all new copper to provide the new power requirements. Not only that, I don't even know how you can do proper future proofing for this given that we cannot project what other new miraculous technologies will be born that will be sucking power out of the outlet at the home overnight.
What third world country do you live in? My home's existing electrical panel and utility supply is enough to charge 5 Teslas overnight simultaneously, and it's just a standard 200A panel. There won't be any need to rewire homes. Utilities will have to upgrade their grid capacity.
You might be interested in this link, ran into it accidentally today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7CCq4oBgw4
To my way of thinking, this has the right directional trajectory for how we need to think about energy storage: half the weight, up to 10 times the energy density of current lithium car batteries to match the energy density of carbon fuels, recyclable, zero risk of runaway heat reactions, same speed to re-fuel as gas and so forth.
This solution (if it works even) is not quite half the weight, only like %30 more energy dense than lithium ion so it won't be viable as a replacement at gas stations because they are not on par in energy density to gas and stations would need huge physical storage areas to make this universally viable.
But, maybe, the right mix of variables can be found.
People are getting hung up on using today's infrastructure to power something two decades away, at least. That's not how the world works. Supply and demand evolve together unless there's some massive shock to the system. There will be no problem doubling our power generation capacity in the next couple of decades as long as nobody gets in the way.
Dear lord, you are fucking retarded.
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