charging problems are a major barrier to EV use and growth
as for WA State
statista.com
You happen to live in a state with major rivers and low population. I live in state with lots of sun.
These are generally not transferable to other states.
BTW, damming waterways on the West Coast has lead to rapidly increasing coastal erosion(but the ignorant blame AGW). Erosion is much worse in California in the north closer to Washington's damn dams.
researchgate.net
ABSTRACT Rivers are natural transporters of sediments from inland mountains to California's coast, which prove to be an important source of sand for beaches to combat erosion from incoming wave energy. Today, as California supports millions of people in large coastal metropolitan cities, humans have drastically altered rivers from their natural states to accommodate their needs of water by channelizing and damming rivers, which obstruct natural peak river flows and contribute to a decrease in fluvial sediments to be deposited downstream (Jaffe 2007). Are dams in coastal watershed regions retaining enough sediments to starve beaches of sand, thus restricting beaches from being effective buffers against coastal erosion? The aim of this research paper is to explore the impacts that damming rivers in Southern California has on its beaches, primarily focusing on the correlation between decreased fluvial sediment flows and increased coastal erosion, and to later introduce potential mitigation to manage these issues. There is a compilation of studies on the magnitude of sediments kept from reaching the Southern Californian coastline included in this paper, many of which extrapolate sediment retention data recorded at dam locations to quantify the loss of sediments that would naturally reach beaches. Due to several challenges in quantifying the actual amount of sediment restricted along the entire coastline, each study produces different results, however each conclude that the reduction of fluvial sediments will increase erosion rates and be problematic for coastal Southern Californian cities.
World's largest dam removal reverses coastal erosion
44 Citations 351 Altmetric Metrics Abstract Coastal erosion outpaces land generation along many of the world's deltas and a significant percentage of shorelines, and human-caused alterations to...
New High-Resolution Study on California Coastal Cliff Erosion Released
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