Grumpycat
Veteran Member
Since when was a brownout conducted at night?I don’t think all of them are “haters”. Maybe just a healthy dose of skepticism??
Seems reasonable to believe if theres roving brown outs and such already happening in peak AC use months that adding millions of electric charge vehicles could cripple the system (unless it’s upgraded) and upgraded with what? More coal? NG? More Nuke? They are all socially unacceptable, right?
Seems like all we are left with is foreign made solar panels and windmills to increase output.
If you were paying attention EVs charge at night when there is excess capacity even on brownout days.
I think coal is great. Even if greenhouse gasses are bad (I think not) then coal-fired electricity powering a Tesla is still cleaner than a 30 MPG gasoline automobile. But the Tesla can effortlessly charge from nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, coal, gas, oil, unicorn tears, or any combination thereof. While extraordinary effort is required to dilute gasoline with ethanol. Or make biodiesel.