A Funny thing has happened to EV’s

[Randy Wells]

Originally Posted by Eddies66

Vogtle Unit 3 recently surpassed 100 days in service. It's the most advanced light-water reactor on the grid today and is the first new U.S. reactor to connect to the grid since 2016. Unit 4 is expected to come online in 2024! This tech has been used in Navy ship for over 70 years without incident.

Yes I know some engineers that work for Bechtel, took them years to build it, but it was successful. Need to build more, as clean as wind, smaller footprint, makes way more power 2230 megawatts, would take 2000 wind turbines to make that much, , less maintenance, and they don't kill birds of prey. Eddie you should convince more of your brethren to support this.

Randy Wells

[Eddies66]

Originally Posted by Randy Wells

Yes I know some engineers that work for Bechtel, took them years to build it, but it was successful. Need to build more, as clean as wind, smaller footprint, makes way more power 2230 megawatts, would take 2000 wind turbines to make that much, , less maintenance, and they don't kill birds of prey. Eddie you should convince more of your brethren to support this.

Randy Wells

In the late 1980s and early 90s, the Marines shipped all of their tactical nukes to Pantex under the SALT agreement. The weapons were disassembled and the active material was returned to the Dept of Energy. So it is not for lack of material to build these safe plants.

[Tom P]

Originally Posted by Randy Wells

Need to build more, as clean as wind, smaller footprint, makes way more power 2230 megawatts, would take 2000 wind turbines to make that much, , less maintenance, and they don't kill birds of prey.

The solar farms do too. Birds get zapped out of the sky over them.

[Eddies66]

Originally Posted by Tom P

The solar farms do too. Birds get zapped out of the sky over them.

Solar panels do not kill birds outright. However, birds are attracted to the shininess of solar panels, which often look like moving water when flying above. Some birds mistake panels for bodies of water and try to dive into the “water,” which hurts or kills them.

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by Eddies66

Solar panels do not kill birds outright. However, birds are attracted to the shininess of solar panels, which often look like moving water when flying above. Some birds mistake panels for bodies of water and try to dive into the “water,” which hurts or kills them.

Now that’s hilarious! Hope no spotted owls were hurt. Surprised some nuts haven’t protested that, where is Greta when you need her….

[Rory McNeil]

Originally Posted by Eddies66

Cars made today have Polyethylene, it is called plastic and 70% of cars are plastic. HDPE is a hydrocarbon polymer prepared from ethylene/petroleum. Of coarse you knew that because you work for the oil companies. Johnny Kilowatt is working well in California, when you were out here and traveling west out of the valley, what did you see? You saw windminds and solar farms, well that is even larger now in fact, we shut down a nuke plant and California didn't even blink from the loss. California will figure it out not some backward state in the midwest.

So nice to hear that California should no longer suffer from "rolling blackouts", brownouts, or needing to tell it`s residents that they can`t charge their EVs or turn on their home Air Conditioning during hot weather.

[Eddies66]

Originally Posted by Rory McNeil

So nice to hear that California should no longer suffer from "rolling blackouts", brownouts, or needing to tell it`s residents that they can`t charge their EVs or turn on their home Air Conditioning during hot weather.

Starting about 15 years ago California mandated that all new homes are required to be sold with solar panels.

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by Eddies66

Starting about 15 years ago California mandated that all new homes are required to be sold with solar panels.

Mandated. That’s the one word I hate the most.
I always thought this was the land of the free.

[Jeff Niceswanger]

Originally Posted by Keith 944

Mandated. That’s the one word I hate the most.
I always thought this was the land of the free.

Our house was built in 1978. In Ohio. It was mandated to be built total electric. Our total sub division is electric.That was in just the opposite of times, as we had just came from the 73 oil embargos. 15 years ago they finally ran gas lines out here. 2 of my neighbors switched. We are thinking about putting in some type of solar panels to heat the swimming pool so we can get rid of the heat pump out there. Funny how we swing back and forth.

[Eddies66]

Originally Posted by Keith 944

Mandated. That’s the one word I hate the most.
I always thought this was the land of the free.

You are free to pay or index your bill and get a credit. Choice is a wonder thing. Some people in my area pay $1200 a month in the summer months,
I would rather sent that on something else.