I was very happy when you spoke up at SEVA. Although I thought my calculations were reasonable, I did not have them peer reviewed, and so I was not sure if I had missed some important aspect, but your actual results confirmed my views. So, thanks a lot.
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:34 PM Offgrid Systems via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Larry, I think that was me. I did car/house/solar+storage and we are > about 95% net zero on an annualized basis. I am installing a little more > solar and converting my diesel tractor to get to 100%. The upfront cost > is there but now the savings are big. Low fuel and maintenance costs for > the EV's. Same for a passive house, with the bonus being excellent air > quality inside, and cozy warm in the winter. And solar, even here in the > great Pacific Northwest is like magic, super low cost to maintain, > basically clean them off once per year. It's the perfect retirement plan > for me, low outgo, maximum payback and supreme fun! > > Tim Economu > > On 5/6/2020 9:13 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Some time ago I made a presentation at the Seattle Electric Vehicle > > Association (SEVA) in which I showed that, even in the Seattle area which > > has the worst solar energy in the USA (other than Alaska), by combining 3 > > existing technologies: (1) electric cars, like the Model 3, (2) the > > European Passive House Design, and (3) a 10 kW solar panel, that the > > combination of house+cars not only is net positive in terms of energy, > but > > reduces the total amount of energy use by a factor of 9-10, even when you > > include the energy needed to manufacture and install the 10 kW solar > panel. > > > > > > > > > > At the end of this presentation, one of the SEVA members got up and said > > that he had actually done what I merely calculate and talk about, and > that > > my figures are very close to what he has observed in reality. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Larry Gales -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200506/86d3d56c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
