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Old 02-10-2009, 06:50 PM   #2 (permalink)
bennelson
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V2G (Vehicle to Grid) is a great idea - in concept.

The trouble is that it's pretty tough to get anybody to do anything unless you give them a very good reason to (government money for example)

Lot's of small distributed energy is much better than central power in terms of reliability.

Personally, I am still planning on rigging up my electric car to be able to act as a rather large UPS.

Plug my car in to the house to charge. When there's a blackout, plug my house into the car to run the fridge and things!
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