Originally Posted by Ponchinizo
Originally Posted by Shannow
Originally Posted by BMWTurboDzl
I'm not certain what you're trying to say.
California residential code essentially requires new homes to be net-zero and builders are going to reach that goal by adding solar. The panels are going to come with the house and at the moment appear to end up in the purchase price. Because they're part of the purchase price the cost will be amortized over 30 yrs by way of the mortgage loan.
It's really very simple, but EV/solar advocates like to make it sound like us power engineers don't understand what we are talking about.
Nett zero means that you produce during the day, over and above what the market requires...prices go down.
At night (I know that the sun shines on California and their laws 24/7, but humour me, you rely on someone actually MAKING it...prices go up.
That's where you get the duck curve, that's where you get the inverted peak/off peak for e.g. Hawaii is a sneak peak ...see what I mean ???
I'm sure that you cn grasp the concept of storage that you need to amortise the cost of the battery over each charge/discharge cycle...and that's around 25c/KWh, even if filled with free electricty.
So from a home owner's perspective, if you choose storage, to charge your EV, you are looking at VERY expensive electricity...if you need you need touse your car during the day, and charge at night, it will soon be the most expensive part of the day to do so.
If you need me to type slower, let me know.
I feel like that electric infrastructure won't happen without nuclear power, which everyone is afraid of for some reason? I've always thought it was a super attractive clean power option. No CO2/NOx etc, ability to meet peak demand quickly, very stable power generation for decades. We're on nuke power where I live and I like knowing my power isn't producing emmisions and I won't have to worry about the unreliability of solar.
By scale there just isn't much waste produced, they keep all the spent rods at the plant still, and the system surrounding spent nuclear waste keeps it safe and secure. I like it, maybe I just don't know enough and that's why others don't want more nuclear. Seems like an easy solution to rising fossil fuel prices in the future.
Nuclear is ridiculously expensive and S-L-O-W to ramp up/down. In all seriousness w/out govt guarantees reactors would never get built.