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[QUOTE]North of 8 - 7/28/2022  3:08 PM

[QUOTE]Smell_Esox - 7/28/2022  2:50 PM

The problem is that renewables can hardly keep up with new electricity demand.  Imagine how much more demand there will be when we replace over 300 million vehicles with EVs in this country.  I know my neighborhood doesn't have enough capacity flowing into it if everyone has an EV.  Add two EVS per household and wowza.  Storage is a joke at this time.  We are talking about storing minutes worth of electricity.  In other words, you can power your house for 5 minutes on your storage when electricity runs out or the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't out.[/QUOTE]

Actually storage is far more advanced than that, with new high capacity units coming online all the time.  Briggs and Stratton was late to the party but recently put out some really fine storage units through a subsidiary, SIMPLPHI ESS, storing 49KW.    It is not at the point where you can power a home for a week but certainly for a day or more.  Not cheap, but then, neither is gasoline.[/QUOTE]

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Posted 7/28/2022 3:08 PM (#1010230 - in reply to #1010228)
Subject: Re: EV To Pull Boat?

Smell_Esox - 7/28/2022 2:50 PM

The problem is that renewables can hardly keep up with new electricity demand. Imagine how much more demand there will be when we replace over 300 million vehicles with EVs in this country. I know my neighborhood doesn't have enough capacity flowing into it if everyone has an EV. Add two EVS per household and wowza. Storage is a joke at this time. We are talking about storing minutes worth of electricity. In other words, you can power your house for 5 minutes on your storage when electricity runs out or the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't out.

Actually storage is far more advanced than that, with new high capacity units coming online all the time. Briggs and Stratton was late to the party but recently put out some really fine storage units through a subsidiary, SIMPLPHI ESS, storing 49KW. It is not at the point where you can power a home for a week but certainly for a day or more. Not cheap, but then, neither is gasoline.

Edited by North of 8 7/28/2022 3:23 PM