6th Grade Arithmetic and Climate Change

The American Spectator: Rael Jean Isaac notes the elementary calculations of Francis Menton's blog on climate change.

Here are Menton's comments before the New York Climate Change Council:

You’re going to need at least 10,000 GWH of storage to back up just current usage if you replace fossil fuel generation with wind and solar. At the price of Tesla batteries, that will run you about $1.5 trillion, which is approximately the entire GDP of New York State. If you triple electricity consumption by electrifying vehicles and homes, then you must triple the storage, and it will cost at least three times GDP. And by the way, you need a battery that can store electricity all the way from summer to winter without all the energy dissipating and then discharge over the course of months. No existing battery can do that…. How could you commit us to this without any feasibility study, any detailed cost workup, let alone a demonstration project showing that it can be done?

Here is the link to Manhattan Contrarian.