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Old 03-24-2019, 08:23 PM   #350 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Applying the generic 'you' to myself, I find that I still have no cell phone and spend the same amount of time on Internet (not the Internet). The only change is that in going from 56k dialup to 1.5mbit DSL packs more into the same amount of screen time.

If I get myself out from under these ICE cars, the Arcimoto FUV will get 110v/1500w in the carport.
Of course, my point was made. In only 19 years, a crazy amount of change has occurred. What will the next 25 hold?

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Originally Posted by slowmover View Post
The belief that technology is a savior is a form of foolishness. It’s takes very little to upset an increasingly delicate energy “system”. If that upset becomes in any way systemic fact, the money needed won’t be forthcoming on national much less an international scale.

Were this 1969, time and greater robustness would allow mistakes and changes. That era closed its window.

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V2G is enhancing robustness. First priority is for the home to have power from the EV, next is to help balance the grid. All voluntary.
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