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- From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: [energy source] pollu
- Message-ID: <234.38.uupcb@pcs.sj.ca.us>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 14:13:00 GMT
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- Organization: PCS-BBS - San Jose, CA - 408-270-4085
- Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
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- TO: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu
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- T>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
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- Amazing - if it would actually be cheaper to generate more electricity,
- why don't all power plants run flat out all the time, and have gigantic
- banks of resistors to radiate away the heat caused by shunting the
- unneeded electricity to them? Something's wrong here....
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