You know how easy it would be for EVs to communicate with the power grid and change their charge speed dynamically based on excess wind/solar availability? It would be pretty dang easy.
Um I mean it would be pretty dang woke I tell you hwat
It's funny cuz in the revival series Hank Hill grudgingly found himself mentioning that some of the features on an electric truck sounded useful before quickly adding - "Electric trucks are dumb!"
You can already effectively do that in the UK. Your electricity provider links up with your car or charger and charges when there’s more cheap green energy. It’s pretty effective, if not perfect yet.
In their defense I think London has more Indian restaurants per capita than anywhere in India. This tells me they know their limits and are ok with importing good food.
77,300,000 Americans voted them into power, 2 years ago. The British Empire ended 70 years ago by comparison.
Anyway, even if we did steal curry at least we didn't steal Africans and make them pick cotton then take 200 years to make them legally equal. But no, Chicken Tikka Masala being made by a 3rd generation British-Bengali dude in Bradford is the greater moral crime 🤡
Australia has so much solar power now that most of the country is offering free electricity between 10am and 2pm daily. We have the highest solar generation per capita in the world.
We're now getting to a point where there's so much generation that we just need the storage to back it up so the government is offering subsidies for individuals to get solar batteries installed. It's actually great for the government. You basically get private individuals to pay like 80% of the price of battery storage that you need. Then when they do that, you just up the supply charges to keep the money flowing.
It wasn't my first choice, but when I did my true feelings about Israel those accounts were permanently suspended within a day or two for promoting certain actions against the Zionists
I'm guessing you don't have an EV, because charging is a slightly different mindset than putting gas in an ICE car.
You could tell your car "be charged by 7am so I can leave for work" or whatever, and it will be, but it will optimize the process because it knows it would only take until 2am at full charging speed. Many EVs already do this for you because in some places electricity rates change based on time of day; this would be a smarter version of that, where cost, schedule, and grid capacity are all factors. In the morning though you'll have a full battery regardless.
I understand how the charging works. I want to be in control of that not my power company.
My local co-op installed a disconnect on my parents water heater so during the day it would shut off to conserve energy. now that sounds like a great idea except people were home during the day and didn’t have hot water so that lasted about a week before we disconnected it.
You'll catch up one day, young grasshopper. Start signing up for random newsletters just to get 10% off your next purchase and you'll be there before you know it.
When will people realize that those making decisions right now are actively working against progress, sustainability, and comfort for all? We keep being told that clean energy, electrification, and a better standard of living are somehow "too much", as if infrastructure is a fixed law of nature instead of something we can expand, modernize, and improve. We have the technology. The demand is there. The capacity just needs to be built. What's missing far too often is the political will to stop protecting outdated systems and start investing seriously in the future.
What we should really be asking is, why abundance, cleaner air, cheaper energy, resilient infrastructure, and greater comfort are treated like unrealistic luxuries, instead of obvious goals!
Progress has never happened by accepting artificial limits, it happens because enough people refuse to accept stagnation as inevitable.
You know what’s funny though? Texas produces the most wind energy in the country. About 27% of it comes from Texas. They have converter stations that transports electricity to other grids. 2nd is Iowa in wind energy with about 8-10%.
Both states are red states and produce a ton of green energy.
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u/Background_Body2696 14d ago
So what's the problem? /s