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Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies
JoeyRox writes: The publicized goal of Tesla's "gigafactory" is to make electric cars more affordable. However, that benefit may soon be eclipsed by the gigafactory's impact on roof-top solar power storage costs, putting the business model of utilities in peril. "The mortal threat that ever cheaper on-site renewables pose" comes from systems that include storage, said physicist Amory Lovins. "That is an unregulated product you can buy at Home Depot that leaves the old business model with no place to hide."
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Where I live, our lows drop below freezing maybe five nights a year for no more than a few hours at a time. Our highs reach into the high 110s and have crossed 120 a few times. I didn't turn on the heat until the end of November, and it's warmed up again a bit, I could probably turn it off again and not feel it too much.
I could probably live quite comfortably with a modest backup generator as the auxiliary power source if the solar isn't meeting the demand.
He's saying you're insane and your family will freeze to death. Solar and batteries emit deadly anti-wood radiation which means you can't build a fire on a cold night during the artic winter - you need to have at LEAST 3 years of battery storage in case it is cloudy one summer, other wise a second cloudy summer will kill you all.
Similarly, anyone who doesn't buy at least a double tractor trailer towing capable vehicle will run out of fuel when trying to drive cross country, since there might be no gas anywhere along the route. More than that since you'll need to bring a couple months food and water, at minimum, to survive a breakdown in the wilds.
Some of these nuts think buying a few solar panels for light/dvd watching at night means you need to run ana aluminum smelting blast furnace for weeks at a time. They're nuts.