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https://grist.org/solutions/how-evs-can-fix-the-grid-and-lower-your-electric-bill/>
"Depending on whom you’re asking, renewable energy and electric vehicles will
either destroy the grid or save it. The sun doesn’t always shine and the wind
doesn’t always blow, true enough, while a gas-fired power plant can generate
electricity any time. That supposed precarity of renewables will get even
shakier, critics argue, as Americans ditch conventional vehicles for electric
ones, which will draw ever more power from an already strained grid.
Luckily, that’s not a realistic scenario because of what renewables and EVs
have in common: giant batteries. Solar and wind farms are plugging into huge
banks of them to store energy to use as needed, fixing their intermittency
challenge. (Engineers are turning Earth itself into an even bigger battery.)
And a growing number of cars with cords feature vehicle-to-grid technology, or
V2G, also known as bidirectional charging. They can draw clean power when
renewables are humming on the grid, and their owners get paid to send some back
to a utility to meet growing demand — creating a vast distributed network that
could make the electrical system more reliable, not less. Research has found
that globally, less than a third of EV owners would have to opt into such a
system to meet the rising need for energy storage."
Via
Reasons to be Cheerful:
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https://reasonstobecheerful.world/what-were-reading-denver-flourishing-food-forests/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
