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Eeyore wrote:
> 
> Joerg wrote:
> 
>> Eeyore wrote:
>>> Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>>>  Joerg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There is a major stumbling block in areas like ours: Monopoly, plus
>>>>> baseline usage rules the monopoly imposes. The millisecond you exceed
>>>>> baseline by IIRC as little as 30% electricity becomes painfully
>>>>> expensive. Anyone who dared to use their A/C in summer knows that.
>>>>> Unless this changes or one can line up a sweet and most of all longterm
>>>>> night-time deal there won't be a realistic future for electric cars.
>>>> One former EV-1 owner has a solution to the electric power cost
>>>> problem:
>>>> <http://www.solarwarrior.com>
>>>> <http://www.solarwarrior.com/why.html>
>>> A 30kW peak output PV solar array would cost somewhere in the region of
>>> $120,000 in panels alone by my estimation yet would only provide around
>>> 120kWh of electricity daily (worth around $12) on average. Factor in
>>> financing costs and it simply will NEVER 'pay back'
>>>
>>> Scale that down to a 12kWh EV battery pack daily recharge and it would still
>>> cost you $12,000 PLUS and the associated installation, inverter etc, say
>>> $20k overall. Yet it would only cost about $1.20 for that daily recharge
>>> from the mains.
>> Not if you live in an area where electricity cost versus monthly usage
>> has the I/V characteristic of a silicon diode. Out here when you reach
>> 130% of baseline that would be the 600mV point. Go beyond that and
>> you'll hear a huge slurping sound. That sound would be coming from your
>> bank account. And that happens in a lot of other places, too.
> 
> Sounds like you guys need to form your own co-operatives to supply your own power.
> 

But from what? Usually water rights and all that have been divvied up 
"appropriately" many moons ago.

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Regards, Joerg

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