Posted on 11/22/2021 7:34:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
“Jack and I go on these trips and noticed the workers in other countries don’t have cars or nice houses and they seem perfectly happy. Why can’t OUR workers be like that?”
Wow.... just, wow.
A level 2 (240V) car charger can overnight charge a 75-100 kWh vehicle battery. That’s like running your dryer all night.
Power in the US (in the South) averages about $.12/kWh, so charging your electric car to 80 kWh would cost you less than $10.
The ‘oopise’ here is that if say 50% of the homes in a neighborhood increased their consumption by that much, the utility will need to upgrade the last mile distribution transformers (the ones on the pole or curb outside your home).
I like electric cars (we have a plug in hybrid) but I am not naive to their true cost to produce and operate.
“I like electric cars (we have a plug in hybrid) but I am not naive to their true cost “
For me that is the most tempting flavor of electric car. Isn’t it cheaper to operate? What costs are you concerned about? How well does it perform when the battery is run down?
She was something else. After I had left, I heard from other people something else she said to her son, the owner, at a company meeting.
“Because they’re stupid. That’s why we’re the employer and they’re the employees, because they’re stupid.”
She and her husband gave the business to the son but still acted like owners themselves. If I had still been there, I would have walked out right then and there. No one who was there quit though so maybe she was right in a way. Gotta be stupid to work for someone like that.
Then they should also require fire sprinklers.
Go DC, Direct Coal, no electricity needed.
while abundant..
even that is not enough.
The article did not cover that the at home charge have the feature which the government can turn off the charge. Of course this would only be during a power shortage and not for say the political thought. Nice to wake up and find your EV is not charged enough to allow you to drive to work or the doctor, etc....
Plug in your New Chinese Communist Party Car and watch your meter fly off the wall
It is. The Hinkley C plant, currently the largest construction site in Europe, is into the 5th year of build. Another large new plant is planned (Sizewell C), and the government has recently funded a development package for small-scale nuclear units, headed by Rolls Royce. The current government's 'green power' strategy has always included nuclear as an essential element.
If only electricity could be generated by bad teeth
Interesting stuff.
I was curious how they were handling nuclear waste and found this:
https://nda.blog.gov.uk/2020/06/25/a-long-term-solution-to-radioactive-waste/
Lots of smiling people and high sounding words—but it sounds like a lot of magical thinking is in there as well.
It seems like the policy is the same as the US—let somebody else deal with it.
In England (Scotland, Wales, NI have separate statistics), about 37,000 new build houses were completed last year, 170,000 the year before. Particularly in the south and southwest, there is massive pressure from the construction industry to build on greenfield sites.
LOL! How about a Ward-Leonard-Windmill system? That should do it!
“So, in other words, only the fabulously wealthy will be able to charge their cars at home...and have enough money to pay an electric bill that will make everyone else beggars.”
That may be where we are headed in cities north of Gay Frisco.
Apparently, there isn’t a problem with the Piouses, however charging the more expensive ev vehicles apparently can overload the systems. Rumors here, are hinting that the city/county and PG&E are not allowing any new installing of any more charging stations on our interesting culdesac.
An example of a fabulously wealthy and minimal IQ homeowner on the entrance of our culdesac had about 100 yards by 30 yards of expensive solar collecting units installed on his property. Apparently, they didn’t realized that even new Solar can’t recharge a heavy duty ev car at night when the sun goes down.
Their response was to buy another/spare and expensive/electric car for each of them to charge during the daytime. Then, they can drive the other cars that were charged the day before and then charge the other cars in the next daylight adventure.
Since that fun packed adventure, apparently no new solar charging stations have been approved in our area.
Wonder if there are NEMA standard endpoints for electric cars?
I would assume so, or you better tow your solar array if you travel.
“The ‘oopise’ here is that if say 50% of the homes in a neighborhood increased their consumption by that much, the utility will need to upgrade the last mile distribution transformers (the ones on the pole or curb outside your home).”
Thanks for posting this reality. Now I understand what is holding back more ev vehicles in our culdesac. We are apparently approaching that 50% mark, and our lords/masters don’t really want to tell us this reality.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4014826/posts?page=56#56
Time to get a horse and grow oats.
The global reset is shifting the profits from oil and gas refiners into the coffers of public utilities. Run afoul of any local, state, county, or government and your means of travel will be shut down.
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