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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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To: AnthonySoprano

The author of this article knows nothing about the energy system. This is a great idea.

The main issue with power is we need to build everything for peak usage at 7pm. Every other time of day there is vast wastage.

Imagine if your EV can buy $10 of cheap electricity over night, and sell it for $20 once you get home each evening.

It makes having a battery pack in your garage very profitable.


21 posted on 08/10/2023 7:03:00 PM PDT by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

And when you suck the juice out of that electric car, you gonna pay them for it?


22 posted on 08/10/2023 7:08:56 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Gen.Blather

“I now live in a mobile home, and you can’t spend even an hour in it if the air isn’t on.”

Well, you can, but you’ll start having visions, and maybe see your ancestors. An Indian told me about it...


23 posted on 08/10/2023 7:10:51 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: SeekAndFind
batteries have a finite number of charge/discharge cycles before they begin to fail. Bloomberg noted that concern near the end of their otherwise sunny report on this idea:

I don't even like the "Auto Idle Stop" on my car. If my car is stopped it can turn off the engine and then start it again when I lift my foot from the brake. I can turn that system off, but it always comes back on when I turn off the car. I don't want the extra wear and tear on my battery, starter and engine to save a few drops of gas, so I try to remember to hit the button every time I start the engine. There is at least one aftermarket solution which electrically duplicates the button press after you start the car.

24 posted on 08/10/2023 7:14:20 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: SeekAndFind

To get DC batteries into an AC grid the alternating current has to be synchronized.


25 posted on 08/10/2023 7:15:38 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Renfrew
The author of this article knows nothing about the energy system. This is a great idea. ...IF VOLUNTARY.

The batteries already have a shorter life than the rest of the car. If the batteries were cheaply available, the state or power companies could buy their own batteries. Since they feel the need to draft your car to fight the war on carbon, it seems pretty clear that this is not cost effective.

26 posted on 08/10/2023 7:20:38 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: Political Junkie Too

There will be no where cool to go.

Well politicians homes and offices but you won’t be allowed in.


27 posted on 08/10/2023 7:20:46 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: SeekAndFind

Show me a liberal, any liberal, and I’ll show you the dumbest MF on the planet.


28 posted on 08/10/2023 7:22:23 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Renfrew

Until the extra cycles of the battery render it useless.


29 posted on 08/10/2023 7:23:56 PM PDT by cableguymn
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Maybe they can mount windmills on top of trains too


30 posted on 08/10/2023 7:30:00 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: SeekAndFind
California’s largest electric utility PG&E wants to suck the batteries of electric-vehicles

Nope, sorry, nothing there.

The "experts" said don't charge the car soooo...

Beep beep, waving goodbye!

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31 posted on 08/10/2023 7:49:14 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: SeekAndFind

Residential grids are destined for collapse even without the proposal.

People will recharge their EV at work using cheap day solar electricity and run their home at night off their EV and during the day their home will use solar panels. People will go off-grid at home.


32 posted on 08/10/2023 7:56:32 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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To: SeekAndFind

People of California, Keep voting liberal, it is working great !


33 posted on 08/10/2023 8:02:13 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sucking the solar-powered houses next I am ssure


34 posted on 08/10/2023 8:07:17 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Tell It Right

That’s it, l want to wake up now. I have had enough of this nightmare.


35 posted on 08/10/2023 8:19:57 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Government will make our lives as costly, complicated and miserable as possible. They want total 100% control over you and every thing you own...Or rent...Directed and produced by those who now see us us as heavy luggage, fat consumers, resource rapist and polluters...


36 posted on 08/10/2023 8:35:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well this is certainly giving the Your Range May Vary exclamation marks!


37 posted on 08/10/2023 8:44:04 PM PDT by xp38
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To: KarlInOhio

Even better is a stick shift...pop it out of gear and coast to the stop sign in idle......My 1978 F100 ticks over at about 300 rpm.


38 posted on 08/10/2023 8:44:42 PM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So, when you hop in your EV and it won’t run, does a PG&E IOU pop up on the screen? “Sorry, Charlie, we needed your battery juice more than you. You can bicycle or ride the bus to work today.”


39 posted on 08/10/2023 8:59:14 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dragon farms?


40 posted on 08/10/2023 9:01:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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