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Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

Yet whenever we troublemakers raised this issue, we were told not to worry – it would resolve itself, they said, either because wind is usually blowing somewhere, or through the development of electricity storage in giant battery farms. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on. This was plain wrong. Energy Solutions.

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

Cars That Think

Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

Passenger light-duty vehicles (PLDVs) remain the single largest component of transport oil consumption, although shrinking from about 45% share today to 39% by 2035. Passenger light-duty vehicles. The use of coal—which met almost half of the increase in global energy demand over the last decade—rises 65% by 2035.

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