Electricity generated from solar panels is storable in batteries.

That means that the solar energy collected during the day can be stored into a battery, and the energy in the battery can be used at night.

It's actually somewhat like a flashlight that uses batteries. The energy in the batteries got put into the batteries at some time. But the flashlight works at a later time, which doesn't have to be at the same time the batteries got the energy put into them.

It's also somewhat like gasoline. The energy that's in the gasoline got there from millions of years before when the solar energy got converted into petroleum, and now millions of years later we can use that energy, even though it got stored in petroleum form at a different time. So you're able to drive your gasoline-powered car (or big truck) even at times when that petroleum is not being formed. That's if you don't run out of gasoline and petroleum, or die from smog or some c*****e-c****e-induced catastrophe first.

In our next episode, we will explain why wind energy can be used even when the wind isn't blowing. (It's basically the same idea: the energy gets stored for later use.)

Also in your post is this: "The electric grid structure for a suburban street one block long has the capacity to charge at most 5 cars at a time." Given that it came from the same article as said the "solar panels don't work at night", it might be similarly misleading. But supposing it's true, there are various options. One of them is to charge the cars somewhere else, like at the workplace or at some charging station facility designed to handle the demand. There might be a short shuttle ride from a charging facility to the office where the commuter works. Another option is to upgrade the grid. And I think cars could have solar panels on their top surfaces (storing the energy into the battery). That might become standard. Some other options involve changing city designs so that people don't have to drive so much anyway. It may not be necessary that out-of-shape couch potatoes, whose bodies desperately need physical exercise such as walking, all have to drive their individual big gasoline-powered trucks to the grocery store just to get small items every other day.

The first gasoline-powered car couldn't have been very practical (though it may have been "cute"), as there would have been a lack of roads and gasoline stations back then. With time, some new developments become practical. It's wrong to write them off just because they're not totally practical in all situations right now.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/23/governor-newsom-announces-california-will-phase-out-gasoline-powered-cars-drastically-reduce-demand-for-fossil-fuel-in-californias-fight-against-c*****e-c****e/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/business/biden-uaw-electric-vehicles-climate/index.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/eu-aims-to-have-30-million-electric-cars-on-the-road-by-2030

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2021/07/14/eu-suggests-date-for-the-end-of-combustion-powered-cars-suvs/

Thank you.

I was going to tone down my rhetoric a bit more, but it was too late to edit. I'm relieved that you don't seem to have been offended.

It's reasonable to reduce pollution by laws or mandates (because pollution affects everybody); but of course that has to be done carefully so as not to suddenly leave a lot of people without viable options.

Individually I wanted to pollute less. So I got a plug-in hybrid car. It gives me a lot of control over how much gasoline I, _directly_, burn. I still use power from the grid, to charge it; and I don't yet have much control over how that power got generated. One step at a time. When (or if) the grid power is generated ecologically, I'll be ready, having already upgraded to one or two steps past gasoline at the individual vehicle level.

I'd like an all-electric vehicle, but am not ready to make that leap. Plug-in hybrid seemed my best option for now. It'll do 60 miles on a charge before it starts the internal combustion engine, and even after that it gets better than 40 mpg. When I need to do a long drive and have to burn some gasoline, I may feel guilty about it but at least I'll get to my destination and not be stranded (I haven't yet done the research about using charging stations along the way).

If I were really dedicated I might stop driving altogether, but I'm not ready to make that leap either. Maybe I should be, even if nobody else stops driving.

Every time some smug l*****t driving a Tesla passes my twin turbo F150 I always look at my Distance to Empty notice and wonder if said Tesla will run half that far on a full charge. By the way, my fully loaded F150 truck with the 3.5 ltr, twin turbo V6 routine gets 25mpg on the highway. With a 26 gl fuel tank, that works out to roughly 650 miles - day or night. I’m not sure of the range of a Tesla, or any other electric car, but I suspect it’s probably less than half that number.
So, that being said - I would not trade my F150 for any electric, or hybrid vehicle. Especially if I have to start making payments on the difference. 🤣🤣👍👍

Solar Panels Don’t Work At Night

In fact they don’t work when it’s snowing, raining, or cloudy either. The t***h is that they don’t work very much at all. But let’s focus on this idea. They do not work when it’s dark.

Generally, cars are driven mostly during the day. And electric cars are no different. However there is an extra step with those admittedly cute electric vehicles: driven in the day, charged up at night.

Live in an apartment building? Can you imagine everyone trying to charge their cars during the evening? Hundreds of people from one building.

And the suburbs are in an even worse situation. The electric grid structure for a suburban street one block long has the capacity to charge at most 5 cars at a time. But the demand will be for many times that number.

You guessed it, damage to the grid system will occur. Blackouts, here we come.

https://conservativefiringline.com/how-you-can-destroy-the-green-new-deal-with-six-little-words/