Comments on: Headlines: Palo Alto is the First U.S. City to Require New Homes to be Pre-wired for EVs https://techsomogro.com/headlines-palo-alto-u-s-city-require-homes-pre-wired-evs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=headlines-palo-alto-u-s-city-require-homes-pre-wired-evs Science, Technology and the Future Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: lenrosen4 https://techsomogro.com/headlines-palo-alto-u-s-city-require-homes-pre-wired-evs/#comment-11396 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:02:30 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=11750#comment-11396 Neil Hamilton. Hi Neil, What you describe is in fact the great dilemma facing the U.S. in areas where coal is still the principal fuel for generating electricity. There appears to be no nationally coordinated strategy for replacing every coal-fired plant with a mix of renewables, microgrid and off-grid power generation. That clearly is needed but the American public has yet to catch on to this important next step and there is little political will to drive such a policy forward if the votes aren't there.]]> In reply to Neil Hamilton.

Hi Neil, What you describe is in fact the great dilemma facing the U.S. in areas where coal is still the principal fuel for generating electricity. There appears to be no nationally coordinated strategy for replacing every coal-fired plant with a mix of renewables, microgrid and off-grid power generation. That clearly is needed but the American public has yet to catch on to this important next step and there is little political will to drive such a policy forward if the votes aren’t there.

]]> By: Neil Hamilton https://techsomogro.com/headlines-palo-alto-u-s-city-require-homes-pre-wired-evs/#comment-11395 Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:41:50 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=11750#comment-11395 This sounds great until you ride your bike past a coal burning electricity generating plant, like the one I ride past in Tampa when I’m here. It blows it’s sulphuric smelling toxins right through the most expensive real estate in Tampa. How people actually live in these magnificent homes is a mystery to me. Toxins like these are usually reserved for poor people. Until the US figures out that electricity has to be generated somehow, and that electricity will only be the answer when they quit generating 60% of it by burning coal, no one’s actually figured out anything. They might as well equip their electric cars with coal bins.

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