On Sep 15, 2014, at 8:27 AM, Bill Woodcock via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> I track our cars' power usage and our grid-intertie solar power generation, > and we generate, on an annual average, seventeen times as much as our two > cars use. So we're only using hydrocarbons in so far as everything's > fungible, and thirty-four other cars are using our solar power. As another data point...I haven't run the numbers in detail for a while, but my solar roof generates about half as much electricity as I use -- intentionally oversized to power an EV. I don't yet have an EV, but I don't drive all that much...about 5 gallons / week on average (which, granted, works out to about a kilowatt using NIST GGE). And baseload power here comes from nuclear...despite its other problems, it doesn't (directly) consume fossil fuels nor produce atmospheric CO2. Even without the EV, I'm already well ahead of the carbon curve. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140915/9b30e7e2/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
