On 27/05/2021 08:35, Tim Streater wrote:
On 27 May 2021 at 07:38:58 BST, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 26/05/2021 21:07, Tim Streater wrote:
On 26 May 2021 at 20:10:00 BST, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 26/05/2021 17:29, Tim Streater wrote:
On 26 May 2021 at 15:30:21 BST, newshound
wrote:

I forget the numbers, but doesn't a motorway petrol station effectively
deliver tens of megawatts of power when its fuel pumps are all going.
So, to achieve equivalent performance in terms of "refuelling" times
recharging stations are going to need fairly substantial grid
connections as we reduce the present battery charging rate restrictions.

Yes yes, I've made this point a number of times. Good to see you've been
paying attention.

And I have also said that its no worse than a railway substation to feed
a railway line

Its predictable in terms of time cost and technology. Either its
commercially viable or it isn't but technically its standard crap

True, but think how many petrol stations there are doing this. Practically
every supermarket branch.


And that all happened over a period of years. In fact there are many
less petrol stations than there used to be.

fewer

:-)


Look: to 'do electric cars' requires a 3:1 grid upgrade give or take.
So you are looking at massive amounts of cable laying - probably
underground and probably at the 33kv level for major charge points
rather than 11kv anyway...

Sure, but then that will also require a 3:1 increase in the number of power
stations. Where's the planning for that?

Buried in the small print at defra

Last white paper had IIRC 65GW of new nuclear in the footnotes and
headlined 120GW of pointless wind

With Carrie Symonds running Britain's energy policy, it will stay in the
footnotes for a while...


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