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Enough panels to replace that amount of energy will have to cover most of the desert. I am sure the tree huggers will like that.
Someone did a study for Chicago and found that most of the surface of lake Michigan would be needed and that was not counting how to store the energy for night time. |
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The amount of over produced power wasted at night could be utilized in vehicle storage.
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My electric cooperative allows free charging at night up to 400Kwh per month for this very reason.
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That only works until a lot of people have electric cars and typically uses non-renewable energy. Once everybody is charging their car at night it starts being high demand at night, when solar doesn't help and the wind is at its lowest speed on average.
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And then there are those days when PG&E just turns off the grid for fear of being sued (again) when the wind blows hard and causes the transmission lines to spark and start a wildfire. Smokey the Bear says "Only you can prevent forest fires. Sorry, no charging your EV today." |
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Is this sarcasm? I can't tell and I don't want to assume wrong. But, if interviews with survivors of the Camp fires are to be believed, this is exactly what residents already had to do when the roads became impassable. Uncharged electric or rolling petrol bomb, neither is a good choice. |
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