Two utility CEOs on importance of electric vehicles, potential impact on reaching climate goals
The following is commentary added to the article, made more readable with explicit hyperlinks, and some edits.
EVs are
fine in our transition from fossil fuels for power generation. The
lucky few who are able to take this path are blessed with a present
fortune drawn from the commons, in the enabling subsidies. It isn't
fair, and we all know it. These affluent people in an instant add
millions to their present worth. Here's the math, in this blog:
Mulling
over the unfairness, I seek to confirm my alternative proposal, that
PV power must be available to to us all. It is time that I update the proposal, but here it is in this blog, dated 1/17/2015:
Every
household that gets a bite of energy independence, where it is
offered to anyone at public expense, will want more, and can use its
monthly savings to grow the public and then personal, investment. We
all become PV (present value) millionaires. This is not absurdity.
Here is
one technical confirmation, that the grid defection we all are
allowed charges your EV, or only your personal electronics, better
than a grid-tied PV array.
Any
battery is charged more efficiently without the losses of DC/AC/DC
conversion.
It will
help if readers know I am grinding two axes here:
1. We
are off-course in our adoption of LED lighting. LED lights are
DC-powered plate-form integrated circuits that are unbreakable and
can serve for hundreds of thousands of hours. Candles and their
electrical knock-offs are wasteful as practical lighting, and are
excused now, only as for decoration. The disaster-preparedness
campaign would promote most-efficient LED and OLED lighting as plate
or sheet forms. Where these lights may serve maintenance-free essentially forever, they should not be packaged with fragile lenses (never glass bulbs), and with fragile AC/DC converters. We may, and should, require in-USA manufacturing of
light engines under subsidy.
2. We
have not found out how to inspire weatherization of our homes. More
than 80% are untouched toward finding the pots of gold in Present
Value of easy durable improvements. The answer is up-front financing
for all, then with no longer an incentive to defer action, pushing
our problems onto others. Greed is not really an element of human
nature. We succeed where we cooperate, wanting equal opportunity for
all. A photovoltaic campaign for all will surely lead to accelerated
weatherization of our houses, apartments and small-business
workplaces. We of the USA will then cease to be laughingstocks in our
wastefulness.
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