We have become a throwaway nation and the present administration is pushing electric vehicles on the public who neither wants them nor can they afford them. Where is all the electricity going to come from to charge the batteries? Presently we don't have enough power to power the state of California and they are telling people to not charge their electric cars because of the power shortage.
As the state of California is mired in a massive heat wave, one of the major operators of the grid asking residents to avoid charging electric vehicles during peak hours of 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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yeah I saw this story the other day on the "news"....can't charge your electric toys cause they can't generate enough to meet demand. But the government is forcing it on you/us. I have never laughed so hard in my life.
I spent the last few days at the local nuke plant. They're running round the clock trying to keep up with demand. Fuel and supplies isn't terribly hard to get but it costs and it's highly regulated. The plant itself is pretty complex, but it's OLD and honestly needs TONS of updating. I was able to go down inside of unit #1 which is down for outage with a tour, was a lot of fun, and very interesting--but I've always had a thing about how this kind of energy is handled. They went on to talk about how they would have to expand to meet projected demand, and basically they can't. The land is not available. So they have to build new, somewhere else, and building a new nuke plant is financially out of the question due to a number of things, including government laws mandates rules etc. Nobody wants a nuke plant in their back yard and I understand why, so the public will fight it tooth and nail. "Current"ly, there is no other way to generate here, gas plants are shut down, coal is gone, wind don't blow here, and it takes more acres of solar panels to make enough electricity, than there are acres inside the city limits....so that is not a viable option either. Hydro? Only works in a specific set of conditions which are limited mostly by the geography. We have a lot of hydro plants around here and some of them create special things, others are eyesores, a couple are just totally shut down because their operating costs exceed their income. The solution to that is to charge more, and we the people, can't afford what we already have to pay for...thanks to...again...our illustrious government.
so what we are seeing is the intervention of the leaf lickers combined with overpopulation. And with that, it can certainly make for a LOT of unanswered questions.
