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Article #6213Re: Windmill farm in Palm Springs
From: John McCarthy
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 00:00
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I think Tom Gray has confirmed my point. The storage capacity of electric cars will not add flexibility to the system, because the cars must almost always be recharged at their convenience rather than at the convenience of the grid operator. Admittedly if your car were discharged and you weren't going to use it for (say) 24 hours, you could put its charger in a mode that would charge it at a time convenient for the grid. This is unlikely to be frequent enough to do much good. If I had an electric car, I'd want to recharge it right away, just in case I might have to use it. -- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305 * He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense. http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107e5d,3fcd89873520c250 X-Google-Attributes: gid107e5d,public X-Google-Thread: 10e415,3fcd89873520c250 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e415,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,3fcd89873520c250 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,3fcd89873520c250 X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public From: jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) Subject: Re: Windmill farm in Palm Springs Date: 1996/01/08 Message-ID: <JMC.96Jan8151038@Steam.stanford.edu> X-Deja-AN: 134427077 references: <4bf68t$pil@shellx.best.com> <4bfs4v$i30@crl5.crl.com> <4bgdqq$ses@igc.apc.org> organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University reply-to: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU newsgroups: ca.environment,sci.energy,sci.environment,alt.energy.renewable