Posted on 08/16/2020 10:07:21 AM PDT by rktman
“Where are they going to get the flux capacitor?”
Amazon Prime. Will be delivered tomorrow.
Still trying to figure out how I survived living in Tampa as a kid in the early 50’s with no AC and all that humidity. And mold. There had to have been mold. I can almost smell it now.
You can tell you are in the third world when the leaders are better at making excuses for power outages then they are at making sure the utility can actually produce the necessary power.
Haha
Thus the opposition to "smart meters" because the utility will restrict the power to you or I but not wealthy areas nor areas prone to rioting (often with housing subsidized by you and I).
Battery technology has improved a lot but there is still a limit to the number of deep charging cycles a given unit can handle. If you keep your EV for any length of time you may approach those limits, and in any case the recharging efficiency goes down with each cycle. It's just how batteries work. They eat themselves up to keep operating. Other things do too, of course, but in the end it comes down to cost vs. benefit, unless you're doing it as a virtue signal and place value in that.
"What did Socialists use before candles?"
"Electricity."
Lol, that made me laugh...but it’s so true too. The universal answers to all problems.
Solar, wind the magic onion
They haven’t looked under the sofa cushions. I bet the 450 MW plant is there.
Are those caused by playing music at high volume?
What happened, Captain Planet have the week off?
Thing is, if he did it right, he could theoretically charge his EV and power his house (the latter to some degree, depending on what he’s runnning) with power collected during the day if it was properly constructed and under ideal conditions. Yeah, there are catches, and if anything goes wrong it’s not happening as planned.
I know someone who’s doing exactly this with his home and a Tesla Model 3 here in the Dallas area - but he’s doing it for grid independence and not virtue signaling. His rather large solar array can actually charge his car and run his house relatively easily under most conditions, but he still stays connected to the grid in non-emergency conditions and has a couple of generators on his property as well.
A cagey Texan could probably scam half the population of California by selling them additional electrical boxes. Charge them $50 each (2 outlets per) and give them instructions to mount them on walls next to existing outlets. Electric will flow from the existing outlets to the new ones doubling the available electric and thus eliminating the requirement for rolling outages.
Also, look into supercapacitors - those don’t have the lifetime cycles like batteries do.
They could, but they shouldn’t - California’s last outage on this scale was blamed on Enron. This time California can’t blame it on anyone but themselves and we really don’t want to give them an out.
My cousin-in-law had the dream of going off-grid when he moved to Hawaii a few years back. Turns out there is not only a tax break, but financial incentives as well, since most of Kauai's power comes from imported petroleum-based fuels, and that makes it comparatively pricey. Anyway, when I went to visit them, all I can say is, it certainly is a different lifestyle. No long, hot showers. Somewhat tepid water and you turn it off when you are lathering and washing, and only turn it on when rinsing. All clothes are washed in cold water. Lighting and other appliances are turned down or off at night. Much of their cooking was done outdoors using wood or charcoal. When I left he mentioned he is negotiating a home equity loan to replace the battery banks on his property as they are about at the end of their useful life. He said he doubts he will break even on cost, but always wanted to try the off-grid lifestyle. Hey, if that's your dream, go for it.
I survived the San Fernando valley in the 60’s with a swamp cooler on the house. right now its 90 at my home in orange county with a fan blowing on me.. turn the ac on after 7 tonight to cool off the house
Roger that.
True, they don’t have that issue as much (millions of cycles compared to hundreds or thousands). But they are on the pricey side, have a significant self-discharge rate, and non-constant voltage output as their charge is drawn off. The self-discharge problem may require significant overbuild if reliability and reserve margin becomes an issue. Just goes to show you, no free lunches.
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