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I'M NOT SURE I HAVE THE ENERGY FOR THAT!

This one has been rolling around in my brain for a while. I was on some online forum a bit ago and we were "discussing" energy, specifically the need and uses of energy to support our modern life. We got to a discussion of electric vehicles and the growth of solar and wind power. I realized with one comment that the person I was "talking" to really did not understand electric cars and power generation. He seemed to think changing all vehicles to all electric would solve all our problems. (FYI, I say "he" as the self-description was a 20-something male college student - I only "know" them from an exchange or two on the forum).  I explained that one problem with that is that electric cars to do not produce any power, they just consumer power. A battery does not produce energy, it stores and releases it. The power has to come from somewhere. I really don't think he had ever thought of that and after a brief exchange, he left the forum.  Batterie...