uc_banana

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by uc_banana 4y ago
>can cope with the kettle at half time of the fa cup final situation, and thus can cope with charging 30 million vehicles. Not necessarily. At the scale of the national grid, a kettle is a very short-term load. I can't imagine that
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by uc_banana 4y ago
Here in Europe, we will have to buy them because the alternatives will be banned.
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by uc_banana 4y ago
>than having to buy oil from some of worst regimes on the planet The current state of mineral and resource extraction and processing for EVs has a way to go before this argument holds water.
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by uc_banana 4y ago
It turns out, the "open internet" is, in general, a terrible idea. Edit: I'm serious. From a national and personal security perspective, as unpalatable as it is, China has the right idea - what sane country allows any strange
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by uc_banana 4y ago
>additional spare capacity in the wires 1. What additional spare capacity? Why would any particular electrical installation (here, streetlights) be designed for about an order of magnitude more carrying capacity? 2. One of the original m
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by uc_banana 4y ago
I nearly forgot the other fact about street-lighting. It was widely adopted at a time when there was a lot of night-time baseload that couldn't be turned off. Now that we use more intermittent sources, there just isn't this "
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by uc_banana 4y ago
Assuming you live on a motorway and your local streetlight used 500W, and was converted to an LED that draws practically nothing, that frees up....about enough juice to add 20 miles of range over 12 hours. No wonder no-one bothers with this
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by uc_banana 4y ago
Once you've used the necessary amounts of up-to-date electronic design techniques and components to build the battery management, motor controller and charging systems in your "barebones" EV, adding some multicolour lighting
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by uc_banana 4y ago
For some definition of "simpler", sure. You could also look at it that an EV requires a functioning, efficient global system of engineering design, mineral extraction, and manufacture. There are very few countries that could claim
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by uc_banana 4y ago
I don't see what's reasonable about asking a streetlight installation designed to handle at most several hundred watts to suddenly provide several kilowatts.
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by uc_banana 4y ago
That's fine. Average Joe will live in a 15-minute city and find that all his needs are covered without a car! Edit: I am being a little sarcastic, although I really like the idea of a 15-minute city and would happily live in one. I&#x2
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by uc_banana 4y ago
>Clearly my house can do that as my kettle is currently boiling and drawing 3kW alone. Indeed. When people's kettle usage was much more synchronised (ie, when TV advert breaks were a shared experience by most people), they had to bu