EVcast #379: Don't Be Smart .... Grid

You can read about vehicle to grid (V2G) in a blog I did for EVWorld.com.

http://evworld.com/blogs/index.cfm?authorid=46&blogid=825&archive=1

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I have not read this article. I will not read this article based on the author's own disclaimer. Why do people want to read anything that the author practically tells you is a lie? The problem with this country is that people will make decisions based solely on how they feel and what they believe and not cold hard facts! That is why we are having such a hard time getting away from oil dependancy. People want to feel and believe that: "we will go along happily on our petroleum dependant way and it will always be that way"! The cold hard facts are that our economy is crashing in slow motion, (in case you haven't noticed). We are putting all our eggs in a basket that won't be there in a very short period of time. Think about this: Just about everything you have or do involves oil dependancy! Try scaring yourself once, picture the world without oil.... Then picture the world functioning without polluting coal.....What is left? Nuclear, solar and wind. Nuclear fuel is also a finite and a dangerous resource! I can't believe that people could be so short sighted and stupid as to complain about the looks of windturbines! Electricity will be our savior and it will come from many sources. We need petroleum to produce things that can only be produced from oil like fertilizer and pesticides (until we can become totally organic), and not to do something so stupid as burning it! Personal transportation will be electric whether we want it or not. There will not be a choice and the sooner everyone realizes that the better off we all will be.

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Quote from guest on Saturday, July 3rd 2010 @ 8:57 AM
“I have not read this article. I will not read this article based on the author's own disclaimer. Why do people want to read anything that the author practically tells you is a lie?”

I didn’t say I was lying and I wasn’t talking about my article. I was talking about the audio show and I said that I didn’t have notes with me and so the accuracy of what I said wasn’t exact. However, the argument still holds up. My mother really did have a hard time using the remotes and I did program a single remote to help her but it didn’t work. And I do believe that expecting a high degree of electronic sophistication is a problem with the smart grid. What is wrong with that?

“ The problem with this country is that people will make decisions based solely on how they feel and what they believe and not cold hard facts! That is why we are having such a hard time getting away from oil dependancy. People want to feel and believe that: "we will go along happily on our petroleum dependant way and it will always be that way"! The cold hard facts are that our economy is crashing in slow motion, (in case you haven't noticed). We are putting all our eggs in a basket that won't be there in a very short period of time. Think about this: Just about everything you have or do involves oil dependancy! Try scaring yourself once, picture the world without oil.... Then picture the world functioning without polluting coal.....What is left? Nuclear, solar and wind. Nuclear fuel is also a finite and a dangerous resource! I can't believe that people could be so short sighted and stupid as to complain about the looks of windturbines! Electricity will be our savior and it will come from many sources. We need petroleum to produce things that can only be produced from oil like fertilizer and pesticides (until we can become totally organic), and not to do something so stupid as burning it! Personal transportation will be electric whether we want it or not. There will not be a choice and the sooner everyone realizes that the better off we all will be.”

You started off so hard on me, but I agree with you on all the rest of the stuff you posted.  You want to be scared, just think about continuing on the way we have been going.  We need electric cars to be simple, inexpensive and available. Making things more complicated doesn’t help make it easier for us to get off our dependence on oil, but provides another barrier to entry that is completely unnecessary. Another thing, you don’t have to have all of the facts exactly right in order to be able to form an enlightened opinion. You just have to have the general understanding of the facts correct. The facts are that electricity is cleaner than oil well to wheel, it doesn’t pollute where lungs are closest to the pollution (emissions to lung), the use of ancillary pollutants are greatly reduced (motor oil, grease, anti-freeze, etc.), greatly reduced noise pollution, ability to use completely renewable resources and nearly infinite supply, removes the strategic threat of our dependence on hostile foreign nations for our fuel supply and there are more. As long as we have the general facts straight the degree of accuracy in the argument is just splitting hairs.

My over all philosophy about things is KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid. Otherwise it tends not to happen.

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