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"Electric cars are also extremely useful in that you can choose to charge them at times when wind and solar are producing "too much" power." Which sounds great
by StillBored 9y ago
"Electric cars are also extremely useful in that you can choose to charge them at times when wind and solar are producing "too much" power."
Which sounds great, but is 100% BS in most cases.
That Austin energy EV charging system I linked doesn't turn off the charger when the wind isn't blowing. Instead its strictly time based, so while much of the information is public (http://www.ercot.com/mktinfo http://www.ercot.com/mktinfo) it is pretty much impossible to say "There is spare wind capacity feeding my house, lets charge the car". I would be interested if anyone actually has such a system, and further what would such a system do when there isn't sufficient wind overcapacity for days? Then oddly enough, I see a bunch of tesla's charging on the chargers at work, which of course is during peak power usage times (aka when all the NG peak plants are running).
- greglindahl 9y agoSorry that you are blowing off future benefits based on today's actions.
- StillBored 9y agoWhat future benefit is gained by having people driving around 5,441+ lb electric vehicles given that we will likely (given the current political climate) still be getting more than 50% of our electric (maybe more) from carbon emitting sources in 20 years? No, you want to start solving this problem by attacking it directly. The problem is too much CO2 emissions, so start taxing CO2 emissions from _ALL_ sources, don't try to pick winners (electric cars) and subsidize them, when the next big breakthrough might be a petrol engine that can catalyze out the carbon, or hydrogen fuel cells. Neither of those choices seems likely, but hey... Much like I think the "environmentalists" are as much at fault for climate change by fear mongering nukes in order to wish for renewable sources for the past 40 years as the deniers, I think the electric car people with their "zero emissions" bumper stickers are preaching a lie.
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