On Jan 26, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
One of the advantages of recharging cars is that the customer
doesn't care when you do it, as long as it gets done by morning.
Most other uses of electric power have to be done in real time.
They have be done in a fraction of a second after the demand is
made. When the power company cuts your airconditioner, dims your
lights, or stops drying your clothes, that's disruptive, but you
wouldn't care whether it recharges the car at 1:00 am or 3:00 am.
- Jed
To take advantage of solar energy charging it needs to occur during
the day. However, I think this can be accomplished at a fairly
nominal long term cost (say 50 cents a day) per vehicle by providing
metered charging plug-ins (not free energy) at shopping malls and
places of employment, etc.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
