Let us hope, that over time, solar and wind generation becomes a whole
lot cheaper.
So far, it makes very little sense so far as I can see.
One has to consider it pretty much experimental.
Manitoba Hydro invested in wind farms but the cost of production is
silly compared to the hydro elecrtric generation.
Randy
On 11/08/2014 7:14 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Its not like everybody could run out and buy a new car tomorrow anyway. As load
ramps up our electric utilities will be forced to add line capacity. Around
here theres a LOT of solar coming in which will reduce the load on the heavy
wire grid by making neighborhoods more self sufficient. Within a block of my
house I bet theres 2-3 killowatts of solar. Within 10 miles of where I sit
theres 4.5 megawatts of windpower.
During the day you produce solar which powers Northfield mountain to pump water
from the Connecticut river up into a huge lake where the took the top off the
mountain. At night the water flows back down and makes electricity. Essentially
a huge battery...
-Curt
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From: Fmiser via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Sacrilege
Curt Raymond wrote:
At the Nissan dealership to drive pickups yesterday I talked
him into letting us drive the Nissan Leaf electric car.
Randy wrote:
If, all of you folks down south of the border were to get
electric vehicles, your electric grid would not be able to handle
the load.
Maybe. But if the recharge is set to occur "over-night", that is
when the power plants would like a bit more load to even out the
demand compared to daytime use.
-- Philip
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