You just gotta wonder…
The ‘new’ army persons…
Well, progressive science has since discovered that this supposedly “harmless and educational” game was a ploy to instill patriarchal hegemony in male child-persons, encouraging their feelings of violence and aggression towards diverse cultures. Now that many of these feral youngsters have grown up, their knee-jerk jingoism obstructs the efforts of more enlightened, correct-thinking diplomats in dealing with religions and cultures of genuine peace and benevolence, especially in the Middle East.
In order to educate the new generation of state’s mini-adults about the concept of a modern, correct-thinking army, the United Nations in association with the Obama Administration have created a revised set of plastic army persons for use in state-authorized play activities.
Full article, HERE.
And for you California suckers, er… folks that haven’t left yet, PG&E is going to be an indian giver on that charging for your EV…
It’s been said before, California’s power grid will have to expand in order to meet the demand for more energy. PG&E’s CEO Patricia Poppe has come up with an “unconventional” idea, using electric cars to send excess power back to the grid to prevent blackouts.
Bi-directional charging already allows a few electric cars to send energy from their battery to a home. Think of it as a backup home generator.
Full article HERE, from ABC 7.
At this point, I don’t even know what to say to either one of these articles… sigh
One of the issues on the grid has been the big change in load throughout the 24 hour cycle (spring/fall versus winter/summer) is the other big swing. Most likely scenario is charge your battery overnight only to have it depleted during the day, so if you must use a charger at work you may find the need to carpool home in one of those icky gas powered vehicles, or perhaps you can’t go pickup the kids from school and take them to soccer practice. (Imagine little Jimmy Susan or Susan Jimmy depending on the week getting a call in the middle of class that zir’s birthing person will not be able to pick them up after school because said person enjoyed air conditioning at the expense of zir’s after school activities. No climate protest for you! No extra credit for math class.)
I see The People’s Cube is still shoving progressives noses into their own dogma. It’s been a long time since I visited that site. Nice to see them still at it.
So PG&E imagines that everyone who owns a battery-powered electric vehicle will just be perfectly okay with:
– Taking back power people have already paid for.
– Losing efficiency in not only one direction but two.
– Shortening people’s battery packs due to extra charge/discharge cycles, and the hastened replacement cost of same, increasing the TCO as a result. (Hey, they’re not paying for it, you are.)
– The increased legal liability when they’re in a “Draw power back to the grid to prevent blackout” and one or more of the vehicle battery packs chooses exactly then to spontaneously combust and have a lithium bonfire party. (You know someone’s going to put two and two together on the timing and come up with lawsuit…)
All I can conclude is: That’s some serious government grade progressive hopium they’re snorting.
Channeling Kim Dutoit here: “Let California fail.”
“– Taking back power people have already paid for.” My first thought as well, which opens the door for one of my favorite ‘concept’ stories.
Decades ago in another life, I had a customer who was an older gentleman. About 6’4″, an axe handle across the shoulders, collar length grey hair. A strapping lad in his day, and pretty spry even then. His formal education ended somewhere in grade school. Truly salt of the earth. This story is his.
Sometime before 1968, he had bought a Lahti. No, not coffee, a Lahti L-39 Finnish 20 mm anti-tank rifle. At the time, he lived in Monterey, CA. There were days when certain ranges on Ft. Ord were open to the public. He had a hefty chunk of armor plate to use as a target. He would hire a local high school kid to accompany him on range days to help lug the target down range.
Anyway, 1968 came and went along with some new laws that escaped his notice, and by which time he had moved north to San Jose. Not long after, some obnoxious neighbor ratted him out. S.O. arrived at his door unannounced and confiscated his Lahti. In court, the judge told him to sit down and shut up or face jail time. Well, he didn’t go to jail, but he never saw his Lahti again.
About six months later, his phone rings. It’s an LEO agency in a neighboring municipality.
“Say, we’ve recently come into possession of a 20mm Lahti. We hear you might have some ammo for sale”.
Our hero might have been uneducated, but he wasn’t stupid.
“Why yes, yes I do. It cost me $1 per round. You can have for $10”.
“Click”.
(For those too young to understand the “click”, Google it.)
Those 20mm round make damn fine paper weights, or so I hear.
Reminds me of “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross.
Ah, I see, once again, PG&E is getting blamed for California’s various bureaucrats and politicians not understanding physics, chemistry, math and engineering.
Because if you look at all of PG&E’s ‘faults’ and problems, you’ll find regulations, laws, permitting and other intrusive governmental issues that keep them from opening plants, maintaining lines, cutting back and clearing vegetation from power corridors and such.
Yay.
Now the bureaucrats and politicians are going to force even more bi-directional flow onto a system that couldn’t handle buy-back power from solar systems.
To paraphrase Kim du Toit… California always wins.
So glad to be living in Florida!
Xoph- LOL, true!!!
Ag- Isn’t it, though!
RHT- LOVE it!!! And $10/rd is CHEEP these days… sigh
Beans- That they do, to the detriment of the citizens, as usual.
These two quotes are funny because they are 100 percent false:
->But PG&E’s CEO, Patricia Poppe thinks the technology can go even further by also sending that excess power to the grid, except that, the interconnection is not there yet.
->”Right now today, there is no technology and no automotive manufacturer whose cars can actually send power beyond the home and up into the grid,” said Mark Toney, of Turn (The Utility Reform Network).
ALL of the electrical meters in use today CAN return power to the grid. ALL OF THEM. Found that out when we got our solar power system set up, but someone dropped the ball on informing the utility. For a week we were sending power back – But we weren’t getting credit for it! Also remember the old meters with the disk in them? Those old meters spun both ways, the new ones DO NOT – unless you get the upgraded one. Which you need to get credit for what you’re sending back.
So yeah, they can tap into your car, you just won’t get any credit.
It doesn’t matter what the meter can do, if the car charger isn’t built to convert DC back to AC with a production power quality inverter nothing is going to make the car back feed the house. All the previously installed charger-only systems would have to be replaced with full bi-directional charger/inverters. A Tesla PowerWall (battery) inverter/charger isn’t the same unit as a Tesla home charger because it doesn’t need to be.
Your laptop doesn’t backfeed the house during a power failure. Same idea: one-way charger.
All those electrical cars just became storage for the grid in California.
I can see a new device on the market designed for Tesla owners: a one way diode pack that doesn’t allow power to return to the system. I can see a developing war between Tesla/.gov and the owners as the interface unit works to defeat the mandated power theft/requisition.
Fun times ahead for Cali residents.
I was wondering if such a thing were possible. I’ll start making popcorn for the Tesla Vs. .gov fight. Could be a good one.
Interesting… I wasn’t aware of that. But I don’t have nor will I have an e-car.
A wise decision.
What an excellent solution to the scourge of patriarchally oppressive colonialist plastic soldiers!
Might have to repost…
If Kali and PG&E tries this I have no doubt some entrepreneur will come up with a device to attach to your charging system making it one way only. The Chinese will hijack the design and then sell millions of them to the morons in Kali and the ONLY people who will profit by this ridiculous scheme will be the Red Chinese.
I’ll buy Kw in AZ @ $0.06 and sell @ $0.25 in CA.
Over time I’ll build a fleet of EVs running across the border.
I was from California from the late 50s. I am an retired Electrical Engineer. Me and my family moved to the east coast in 96 due to business.
The electrical grid needs to be upgraded in California. Since the Dems took over all of the Nuclear Plants have been shut down except one, that was suppose to be shut down but they keep it operating because they are hurting for power. They have also shut down coal and Natural Gas Plants.
In the Dems push for solar and wind farms they have not realized that these do not produce energy all the time, have toxic issues when they have mechanical problems, and over time they fail. The cost for solar and wind are higher then actual Nuclear, Coal, Natural Gas Plants. The main issues stopping Nuclear and coal are being constantly being sued and regulations.