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To: xoxox

Thanks for the update. We will see how much the electrical grids are challenged this summer if it is a hot one. The West grid nearly went down last year and the Texas grid did go down in spots. The problem is that if the whole grid goes down, then it can get into a chain reaction shut down because so many systems are computerized and have limited back up generators. There will be a cascading failure that will be almost impossible to recover for weeks. Once the whole grid goes down, repair will take weeks, if not months to get back on line. That is how our system is engineered. The advances must be in batteries and storage capacity in the future, or too many electric cars could bring our whole electrical grids down is a catastrophic way. We don’t have the technology to convert our grids to 100% ‘green’ as they call it. It is not ‘green energy’, but more like brown or black out energy.


65 posted on 05/11/2024 5:41:26 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: silent majority rising
100% of anything in a fallen world is a bad idea. There is robustness in diverse approaches -- decentralization of ideas, if you will.

EV's have their place -- the always have, from the beginning.

Turning any technology into the bludgeon of an ideology has predictable, gruesome results.

66 posted on 05/11/2024 7:32:16 AM PDT by xoxox
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