100%
Whatever Morning Joe says.
I think you can probably only make that statement for residential charging, when people have returned home. Because plenty of charging happens during daylight when people are traveling, or work where there are free chargers, or stop at the mall which happens to have chargers, etc.
But what happens when you flood the system with additional load at night? Magically, demand is no longer lower at any time. And then that complicates things even further for power companies & their PM schedules, which forces additional capacity to be added/maintained…
Agree that nuclear, and lots of it, is the only way to efficiently manage both the massive need and massive variability in demand timing. Solar and wind are a false economy and not only overcomplicate the implementation, they are consistently proven to deliver mere fractions of their nameplate capacities due to the intermittent nature of their energy sources. OTOH, I think @OVERKILL posted that Bruce was at like 93% availability…
Case closed.
Yeah. It is a bit depressing the last 10 to 15 years that one can barley discuss anything with anyone and not have the subject turn into a political rock throwing contest. Lots of times if one sticks with it and does not have to give up, if folks can keep their cool (good luck) I find that we end up not really that far apart on our opinions. But its just to the point I try to avoid anything about religion or politics as much as possible. I will NOT Let myself get caught up like some watching all that biased cable Tv news insanity any more like I once did when I first retired.
With good reason. EVs allow you to carry on with your first-world lifestyle with less guilt of contributing to the irreversible degradation of the human habitat. It may take 20 more years but eventually you'll realise that. It doesn't hurt the cause that they're crazy fast and can be cheap to operate.
“Lots” of nuclear is obviously not the same as when talking solar or wind installs. Figure maybe 10 sites like Canada’s Bruce? Then keep the NG plants as well… like the shark and remora… symbiotic. Not just parasitic like their current “green” lie.
Unfortunately when we hear the words mandates and tax incentives it circles back to politics. When we hear the elimination of mandates and tax incentives it goes back to politics again. Like it or not topics like this are politically driven, and we're impacted by it. Some of are are going to do the happy dance, and others will hate it.
It’s not political to say “don’t steal from my wallet” while being held at gunpoint
Right, you have solar the masses dont and it is not basically free.....but anyway....
The mainstream media have become 'advocates' (partisans) rather than reporters of the news.
Perhaps some over report bcs others don’t report it at all …
I’d rather see the “help” go directly to the power grid - far more people benefit from that …
It’s car guys talking about cars. Some don’t take it there but most do. I shouldn’t have to pad the conversation for someone’s political anger.
The only thing keeping them from going mainstream is cost. Power companies will keep up and fix their grids (ergo Texas and California).
Don't confuse editorials with actual news reporting. The WSJ editorial board is just as bad as the others.Wall Street Journal, BBC, Barrens good, as far as New York Times, Washington Post, well known “agenda” based and biased that we can’t discuss in here.
I actually enjoy some of our discussions and I’m shocked that you included those two.Those two newspapers are editorial commentaries masquerading as news.
