Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Gale Hawkins]

The Regulatory Side Of Rolling Your Own Moderate Solar Farm

Sounds like each utility has their own rules. It would be helpful if the state rules local utility rules and national rules were combined into a unified system.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Florida Power & Light blows up its last coal plant, will replace with solar

Coal to Solar may work better in the Sun belt than in the Rust belt.

 

[Hay Dude]

Florida Power & Light blows up its last coal plant, will replace with solar

Coal to Solar may work better in the Sun belt than in the Rust belt.

Solar is fine with me, but again, like EVs it has to make some kind of economic sense.
No use ”saving the planet” (debatable) if we cant afford to heat/light our homes or have cars we can afford to drive.
The coastal elites don’t care. If it costs more, they have the money.

 

[NoTrespassing]

Having fun being so deliberately ignorant? You have never actually researched why a utility invokes rolling blackouts? Or what happens when they do?

For starters study Time Of Use. Electrical power consumption peaks in the afternoon. When demand exceeds capacity the utility is forced to blackout a region for a period of time. Would be stupid to run everyone off because then the utility wouldn't have any paying customers with lots of unsold power. Depends a lot on the utility and the situation but a blackout might be for only 10 minutes then another region goes dark.

Night consumption is about half of daytime consumption so there is little need for nighttime rolling blackouts. The better EVs have onboard timers to schedule charge. Doesn't matter to the EV when it charges so long as it is ready by the time it is needed in the morning.

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And, that's quite an accusation that I'm being deliberately ignorant. Have I personally attacked you at any time in the past or present? Couldn't you have just posted the rest of your comment without the first sentence? Can you admit that the grid needs improvement?

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Electric cars won't solve our pollution problems – Britain needs a total transport rethink | George Monbiot

This opinion piece is from the UK. Until recently I never thought about car tires being a source of pollution for the planet.

 

[Egon]

All that tire tread that gets worn off has to go somewhere!

 

[PuffyC]

Florida Power & Light blows up its last coal plant, will replace with solar

Coal to Solar may work better in the Sun belt than in the Rust belt.

Like this part:

"There are people… in our industry, who say, ‘You can not be clean and affordable. You can not be clean and reliable’… We have proven that is not the case."

But this part makes you crazy:

"But FPL isn’t gung-ho about all solar. In September 2020, Electrek reported that Florida utilities, including FPL, tried (and failed) to roll back net metering for rooftop solar through a front called “Energy Fairness.”"

They see where all this is going and it scares them to death. After all, the primary goal of any bureaucracy is to preserve the bureaucracy.

 

[MossRoad]

Electric cars won't solve our pollution problems – Britain needs a total transport rethink | George Monbiot

This opinion piece is from the UK. Until recently I never thought about car tires being a source of pollution for the planet.

It's been talked about for a couple years now. I'd never thought about it much either until the past couple years.

The biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters? Our car tires

Driving is not just an air pollution and climate change problem. Turns out, rubber particles from car tires might be the largest contributor of microplastics in California coastal waters, according to the most comprehensive study to date.

www.latimes.com

 

[Citydude]

This thread has turned into a Greta Thunberg novel. How dare us!

 

[cqaigy2]

Speaking of new mining sources. A year or so ago, i watched a utube vide where these guys decided to see how much platinum they could recover along side road. They collected a significant amount of rubber compound an actually recovered a surprising amount of platinum.