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To: cosmicforce who wrote (399600)	2/13/2019 11:21:45 AM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By cosmicforce NAG1 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541736

Here's a plan to get us to FF-free by 2050. Please show us how it can be speeded up by a factor of 3. Bear in mind that we don't own the resources we need to convert, and that we will be competing with the rest of the world to import lithium, cobalt, and rare earth minerals. California is ahead of the rest of the country, and I'm not even sure we can do it. Stanford Report, February 26, 2014 Stanford scientist unveils 50-state plan to transform U.S. to renewable energy Stanford University scientist Mark Jacobson has developed a 50-state roadmap for transforming the United States from dependence on fossil fuels to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. news.stanford.edu == It means replacing/converting 260 M vehicles in 10 years. This is Tesla's gigafactory. It can make batteries for 500,000 cars/year. We'll need to build 52 of them, and find the lithium they need.