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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: misc.test,sci.environment
- Subject: Re: [energy source] pollution from electricity and nuclear
- Message-ID: <82941@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 14:11:51 GMT
- References: <C0Hr1r.AzC@efi.com> <1993Jan7.222251.25386@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing Atlanta -- Atlanta, GA
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- In <1993Jan7.222251.25386@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
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- |1. With a fleet of electric cars that would recharge during off-peak hours
- |(night), the price for electricity would drop, due to plants running at
- |full capacity all the time (no power cycling).
-
- This was discussed a while ago on sci.energy I believe. Someone calculated
- that if all the cars in San Francisco were to be recharged everynight, it
- would take well over 100% of the current generating capacity for the San
- Francisco area. Even charging off peak, electric cars would mean extra
- generating capacity, lots of it.
- --
- Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself
- a government.
- It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
-