oil supply sigint

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Thu Dec 15 02:00:03 PST 2016


> On Dec 15, 2016, at 4:12 AM, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: John Newman <jnn at synfin.org>
> 
> >When you can build a new home with solar panels all over it and tesla battery
> > arrays in the basement to keep you going at night, it's just possible to get to
> > the point where you receive a check from the utility company every month, rather than a bill ....
> >I think, and hope, this is the future of power in homes. 
> >John
> 
> Why should a house-installed solar installation use batteries at all?  Batteries are big, heavy, inefficient, have a limited lifetime, and are made of expensive and potentially toxic materials, which can sometimes explode with little or no warning.
> 

So you don't waste all those KW accumulated during the day. Modern advanced batteries (like the ones sold by tesla) perform quite extraordinarily well.

> I think of the AC power-grid as an infinite-capacity, indefinite lifetime, virtually 100% efficient, "battery".   
> 

But it's not a battery. There is lots and lots of carbon being burned down to keep that grid humming.



>             Jim Bell
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