Heat and drought combination. We lost a lot of generation capacity when the rainfall is low and the Oroville dam was damaged and we have to keep it low during reconstruction of the spill way.
Every energy source sacrifice landscape and wildlife, except nuclear. Chernobyl is now a wildlife refuge.
The Volt and plug in Toyotas have either or, you don’t have to use the battery capacity until you want to. Or you can run the battery down until the gas engine starts, or anywhere in between. Knowing there will be hills to climb coming up, it is better to have some battery left to help with that. The Volt called it “mountain mode.” There are reports the BMW with it’s small generator was not doing well up grades after the battery was depleted.
That makes no sense .
That's true. I should have said "EARLY Prius's. Not exactly sure when they switched it to series hybrid. The early ones would have the gas engine start immediately, but it still got somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 mpg. According to my neighbors that is.
Interesting because “The valley of hearts delight”, a pastoral beautiful agricultural area with fruit orchards and dairy farms, idyllic, became filled in “silicon valley” and looks more like LA decade by decade imo. Speaking of LA, what a sight that is. It’s a touchy issue between property rights and neighbors views.
Yup, Pickering Nuclear (originally 4,124MW) and Lily Lake Solar Farm (10MW) have the same physical footprint. Pickering is down two units (they were not refurbished) so now it is 3,100MW.
i3 is garbage as I have mentioned many times. They have way undersized their engine and their batteries, they were building them with the wrong geometry to fit the space that aren't useful (rear door can't open all the way, can't fit 2 rear-facing car seats in and get the kids inside, their tires are like model T tires with less traction and expensive (nobody else use this), they look ugly inside and out, their e-pedal is horrible to drive in, they cost way too much for what you get.
Too cheap to meter was a marketing phrase that was used when we really started to push nuclear power domestically.
Alrighty .
The footprint for Chernobyl and it's associated facilities is massive . A lot of steel and concrete .
While an interesting scenario, showing EV's being charged primarily with diesel isn't a glowing endorsement.
I talked to an engineer that had worked in the switchyard . He told me that the yard was nearly a square mile . Sounds like an exaggeration but I'm sure an open air 750kv yard is pretty **** big .
