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Electric Cars Won't Strain the Power Grid
thecarchik writes "Last week's heat wave prompted another eruption of that perennial question: Won't electric cars that recharge from grid power overload the nation's electricity system? The short answer is no. A comprehensive and wide-ranging two-volume study from 2007, Environmental Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles, looked at the impact of plug-in vehicles on the US electrical grid. It also analyzed the 'wells-to-wheels' carbon emissions of plug-ins versus gasoline cars. The load of one plug-in recharging (about 2 kilowatts) is roughly the same as that of four or five plasma television sets. Plasma TVs hardly brought worries about grid crashes."
you actually can't spin down the generators all the way, so they produce power even if nobody wants it
Not sure how that works. Is there a dummy load set up somewhere? In reality I expect the peak load generators to shut down at night and base load generators to shut down as much as they can. I assume that low load conditions would lead to problems keeping generators in phase.
its the fucking ghetto rat niggers who keep breeding and breeding and counting on welfare to feed their big fat fucking cow mamas and their dozen brats from a dozen different fathers and their bitchy attidues and their fucking inability to speak english after being born and raised in usa for over 200 years and well ... they're just a bunch of coons, niggers, jigaboos, porch monkeys, and are absolutely useless except they vote so politicians can get their vote by keeping them in the ghetto like the niggers they truly are.
you can take a nigger out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the nigger
LOL, you teabaggers are so racist. And impotent.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Teabaggers have the thinnest skin ever. What a bunch of welfare babies. The only reason they have so much time to stand on the street with a sign is that they don't have a J-O-B.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!