Kevin Crosby wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 KC> *** Quoting Roy J. Tellason from a message to Jim Dunmyer
 KC> *** 
RJT> Jim Dunmyer wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 > Another consideration,  and one that I don't often see addressed 
 > with regard to electric vehicles,  is the power grid.  I can't 
 > remember where it was exactly,  but somewhere in my collection of 
 > Analog magazines there's an article that looked at that issue and 
 > came to the conclusion that in order to move to electric vehicles in 
 > this country we'd need to *double* the power grid,  in order to 
 > support current levels of usage.
 KC> And to add icing to this cake, the "Save the (insert pet 
 KC> whatever)" folks want to shut down the local Nuke plant, as 
 KC> well as (I kid you not!) demolish the Hydro dams on the Snake 
 KC> and Columbia rivers because they interfere with the salmon 
 KC> migration!
*sigh*
Those people,  if they were as well-informed as they like to pretend,  damn 
well oughta know that there are other ways of dealing with this.  For one 
example I've seen stuff about how they've gone and built facilities that 
allow salmon to bypass existing dams.  But!  If _they_ think that such stuff 
is so important then it also should be equally important for those folks who 
think so to pay for it,  and not burden the taxpayer with this stuff.
 KC> Most of these folks aren't even from around this region.  I 
 KC> personally think they are just jealous of our electrical rates. 
 KC> My rates are actually a little high for the area, at 5.7 cents 
 KC> per KW/hr.  Community I moved from was 3.87 cents per KW/hr.
 KC> The cheap electricity, combined with relatively mild winters, 
 KC> make it difficult to economically use "alternate sources".  
 KC> Solar pre-heat for some of the local schools' hot-water and 
 KC> heating systems exist, but it is my understanding that 
 KC> maintenance costs due to the age of the system start building 
 KC> before the systems begin to pay for themselves.
Cheap electricity and relatively mild winters?  Where is this again?  :-)
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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