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Guess where California plans to get energy to 'stabilize' its power grid?
Hotair ^ | 08/10/2023 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 08/10/2023 6:32:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/10/2023 6:32:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Okay, you can't fool me. This is really The Bee, right?
2 posted on 08/10/2023 6:34:28 PM PDT by fhayek
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It would almost make sense with ICE and turn the cars into generators. (but then get paid for the electricity)


3 posted on 08/10/2023 6:36:37 PM PDT by Neverlift
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Unbelievable. I mean, I don’t doubt they think they have the right to do this. Its just unbelievavle they think this is acceptable.


4 posted on 08/10/2023 6:36:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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All of your EVs belong to US!

...for the common good, you know.


5 posted on 08/10/2023 6:36:40 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: SeekAndFind

So they are creating a sucky system that also blows.


6 posted on 08/10/2023 6:36:57 PM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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That's "three-card monte," Ed.

-PJ

7 posted on 08/10/2023 6:37:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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“batteries have a finite number of charge/discharge cycles before they begin to fail.”

THAT sucks.

I hate batteries.

How many cycles does a capacitor experience?


8 posted on 08/10/2023 6:37:29 PM PDT by Paladin2
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No. It’s not the Bee. There has been a pilot program for this in California for a while. I don’t know if it’s going to be voluntary ... at first.


9 posted on 08/10/2023 6:40:14 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Any electrical engineers to explain how this works?

Do they suck down plugged in batteries during rolling blackouts in the sector blacked out?

10 posted on 08/10/2023 6:40:36 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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And then PG&E will turn your "smart" thermostat up to 78 while you sweat it out inside your home with no power in your EV to go somewhere cool.

-PJ

11 posted on 08/10/2023 6:40:59 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Q. I have a Ford F-150 Lightning. It is 100% charged, and I decline to plug it into the grid. I don’t want to drain the battery by giving back to the grid. Will anything happen to me?

A. The EPA has its own police force to deal with filthy criminals like you.


12 posted on 08/10/2023 6:42:10 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Back about 1985 I allowed the power company to shut off my home air conditioner during power problems. It was supposed to be for a limited time only. I If I recall, it was a radio operated system and could be turned off fifteen minutes per hour. They’d send out a signal to turn off the power. Almost right away, they were turning my air off for three and four hours at a time. I called to complain about the times that were in excess of the agreed amount. A snippy woman told me they would turn it off for as long as they wanted. I yanked the system out. (The issue was they didn’t want to pay a premium to buy power off the grid.)

In Florida, you can’t live in modern house without air conditioning. I now live in a mobile home, and you can’t spend even an hour in it if the air isn’t on. I keep several window units just in case and for my rental mobile homes. (Incidentally. The way I rebuild them they’re wonderful to live in and I own them all outright. Fluck the bank and those people who are trying to impress the Joneses.)


13 posted on 08/10/2023 6:43:56 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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I can’t imagine a vehicle being tied to an owner they don’t want leaving the state right? They surely wouldn’t drain their battery back to the grid right?

That would never happen.


14 posted on 08/10/2023 6:48:03 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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You can’t tell the EV people.

Their self worth and identity is tied to EVs.

They’re holding off on the Mileage Tax and huge Trade-in Fees, too.


15 posted on 08/10/2023 6:48:51 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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It will continue until citizens get fed up with this cr*p and directly and personally show them the error of assuming the gov has this authoritarian power. They have it only until the citizens make them stop.


16 posted on 08/10/2023 6:54:02 PM PDT by curious7
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Why limit it to cars. If your phone is plugged into the wall outlet make the phone feed the state grid !


17 posted on 08/10/2023 6:54:58 PM PDT by libh8er
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Yeah that 3.8 volt iPhone battery will really give the grid a jolt!


18 posted on 08/10/2023 6:56:42 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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There are several people here pushing EVs on to the rest of us. I hope they’re happy now that they’re seeing where this crap all leads.


19 posted on 08/10/2023 6:58:55 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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They could try and tap into megan rabidho’s perpetually regenerating ego !

( just irritated cuz just saw her in a brand new commercial and I had hoped after she lost the USA team that match she would just go away and hide her face and stay off my damn tv. It would be one thing if I knew her mug would be coming in the next commercial, but this blindsided by inner and outer mega ugly is getting really old . ok. Rant off )


20 posted on 08/10/2023 7:02:24 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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