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To: Hunterite
This idea requires a buttload more nuclear power plants to be built

We need more nukes for this and more. But a widely distributed storage system in the form of millions of car batteries is a beautiful thing for wind energy and other renewables. Turbines spinning at night have very limited market for the power today, but once people are charging cars overnight that equation changes drastically, and makes the economies of wind energy look very very good indeed.

79 posted on 11/20/2007 11:04:37 AM PST by Uncledave
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To: Uncledave

“We need more nukes for this and more. But a widely distributed storage system in the form of millions of car batteries is a beautiful thing for wind energy and other renewables. Turbines spinning at night have very limited market for the power today, but once people are charging cars overnight that equation changes drastically, and makes the economies of wind energy look very very good indeed.”

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Transporting HEAVY batteries over long distances?


82 posted on 11/20/2007 11:18:31 AM PST by Hunterite
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