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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: [energy source] pollution from electricity and nuclear
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.163057.24959@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <C0Hr1r.AzC@efi.com> <1993Jan7.222251.25386@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <82941@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 16:30:57 GMT
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- In article <82941@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson) writes:
- >|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.
-
- Yes, but not EVERYONE is going to convert. I was referring to utilities like
- Commonwealth Edison, that take 1 or 2 of their 1000 MWe units down to 50-70%
- every night. To level out their peaks with a number of electric cars would
- save lots of money and wear on the plants.
-
- Tino
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