Sunday November 1, 2009, 6:42 pm
I just watched at program on PBS, the power company in Denmark is nationalized, and they are really going to pay people for the extra electricity the cars can pump into the grid.

Sunday November 1, 2009, 8:35 pm
Sounds like a great deal!
Thanks Tom!

Sunday November 1, 2009, 9:37 pm
Thanks for the news!

Monday November 2, 2009, 1:03 am
thanks tom

Monday November 2, 2009, 5:16 am
Here in South Africa the electricity will be increased by 45 percent. Eskom dont realize that we are in a recession. We can go solar because we have ample sun.

Monday November 2, 2009, 5:27 am
My husband and i just talked about this last week. They have no way to "store" the energy, and some of the electrical companies give it back or pay some to use it. We definitely need the technology to store excess. That would get us a long way from oil dependence for sure.

Monday November 2, 2009, 3:18 pm
been there, done that - some years ago, I thought of that.

A typical electric vehicle might be fifty kilowatts, 50 kwatts. A household in Californa uses about one kilowatt, a home in North Dakota uses three kilowatts.

So, the electric vehicle is an excellent storage unit.

I have written about this for some time, to various enviro groups.

I am glad people are doing it.

Tuesday November 3, 2009, 10:59 am
My brother used to work at the Racoon mountain pumped storage facility. They would pump water up the mountain when they had excess power and when they needed extra power they would let the water run back down the mountain generating electricity. So they do have ways to store it, they just dont generally take the effort to do it.