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The limits on PV solar exceed world energy use.
During peak solar output or at night when people are charging their EV's?
The limits on PV solar exceed world energy use.
During peak solar output or at night when people are charging their EV's?
When I studied Architectural Mechanical Drafting I designed a underground house complete with heat gains and losses. It would have been a warm place even in winter with the gains from natural sunlight. It required lots of ventilation and lots of sealant on the exterior concrete.Humm, try it sometime. You can't "have" anything, theres just no place to keep it. My place is 800 sq and it's very difficult in this size. I hope he lives in a very moderate climate and can spend a lot of time outdoors. Under other circumstances we call that a jail cell and put folks in it for punishment. LOL.
If you want to be very Eco, find a good sight to build an unground "hill house" with only a southern exposure. You can then build as large as desired and have near the same utiliy savings. They were quite popular at one time but I don't hear anything about them now. Maybe I just don't read the right stuff.
Did you know - when it's night "here" it's not night "there"?During peak solar output or at night when people are charging their EV's?
In Canada here there is government research for implementing mini-nuke reactors. Canada has the largest operating nuke reactor. The research started at MIT and is now in Canada and looks like it might go forward. We have lotsaaa hydroelectric power that is sold to the USA.My concern with battery powered cars is the load on the energy providing capacity of electricity suppliers if the cars caught on en masse. We now get power outages during a hot weather spell when house air conditions run full speed ahead. Well, an A/C draws quite a bit less than a car charger would, and there are likely to be more than one car per home, whereas with A/C, there's usually just one chiller per home. If electric cars got really popular, I see them as possibly overwhelming the grid. I could see the proliferation of these cars if we can master fusion power generation for power plants. Then we could have low pollution electricity galore. Then the electric cars would be just dandy.
I/C engines are the single-ended direct-heated triode amplifiers of transportation.
(inferior in every way -- but they've got soul)
We all have to think differently. EVs are not "users" electricity most of the time, they are grid storage. Fill 'em up with cheap wind power at night, plug them in to DISCHARGE at peak power consumption times in the evening when solar goes down. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesm...tric-grid-they-are-the-solution/#5a845dee71f8My concern with battery powered cars is the load on the energy providing capacity of electricity suppliers if the cars caught on en masse. We now get power outages during a hot weather spell when house air conditions run full speed ahead. Well, an A/C draws quite a bit less than a car charger would, and there are likely to be more than one car per home, whereas with A/C, there's usually just one chiller per home. If electric cars got really popular, I see them as possibly overwhelming the grid. I could see the proliferation of these cars if we can master fusion power generation for power plants. Then we could have low pollution electricity galore. Then the electric cars would be just dandy.
Hmmz. Like totally networked and power networked as well. I'm sure some will see a conspiracy.We all have to think differently. EVs are not "users" electricity most of the time, they are grid storage. Fill 'em up with cheap wind power at night, plug them in to DISCHARGE at peak power consumption times in the evening when solar goes down. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesm...tric-grid-they-are-the-solution/#5a845dee71f8