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Not easy, without a reference. And I believe I have read it in the past, as as you say you have presented it many times here in the past.
However, I give you full credit for having carried out an analysis, even though I may disagree with it, and feel that your position is much more respectable than I had previously been led to believe, with statements without an analysis of any kind, as far as I could recall.
My comments should not be taken as insulting, merely as a disagreement with yourself on the inevitability of your conclusions, and my comments refer to your arguments, not yourself.
Well I just scanned it and I think Cliffs analysis is a reasonable as say ... Kunstlers or Heinbergs. I don't know that anyones predictions can be claimed to be the only possible version of the future and your constant assertions about electric cars is probably less likely than Cliffs conclusions about massive economic and social disruption. Current events would tend to point more toward the doomer position than "magical green all electric utopia" you believe is coming.
I don't believe I have ever said that electric cars will certainly rescue us all, as you seem to be saying.
When the subject crops up I refer to the4 present state of play and how much power they use, I do not prescribe how much of present use they will be able to provide, as that also depends on other factors such as economics.
My objection is not to the thesis that the grid may break down, but to the assertion of it's inevitability poorly supported by analysis.