{"id":337706,"date":"2024-07-27T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T09:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337706"},"modified":"2024-07-27T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T09:59:55","slug":"to-make-evs-our-battery-bandaid-for-a-wounded-grid-we-need-another-10b-in-inverters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=337706","title":{"rendered":"To make EV\u2019s our battery bandaid for a wounded grid we need another $10b in inverters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The government has this hope that homeowners can be tricked into paying for the batteries (in the form of EVs) that the wind and solar industry need to make their useless random energy into something reliable. Now comes the news that not only are batteries hazardous fire risks and expensive themselves, but to connect to our grid in a two way arrangement we need to spend $3,000 dollars per household (or maybe $10,000) to buy the bit of equipment that makes this work. Not to mention adding another million gigawatts of generation so the cars can be charged in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember in the end, we are not buying EV\u2019s because they go further, cost less, or are more convenient, we\u2019re buying them because we want to stop storms in 100 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many nice weather days will I get in 2100AD for that $3,000 inverter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Household EV infrastructure could cost as much as $10bn, inquiry told<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Natasha Schmidt, The Australian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interim Director of Monash Energy Institute, Roger Dargaville, said powering EVs in just one million households could cost as much as $10bn in power inverters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Dargaville said such inverters, unlike home batteries such as Tesla\u2019s Powerwall, would allow EV drivers to recontribute power into the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat piece of infrastructure costs about $10,000 at the moment, and if you have a million vehicles sometime in the future trying to do this that\u2019s $10bn,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof Dargaville hopes that mass production might reduce the cost to $3,000 each if we are lucky. (Mass money printing and inflation will probably prevent that.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historians will look back on this era and describe it as a case study in corruption and mass delusion. The great capitalist free market of Adam Smith exists only in limited pockets that masquerade as \u201cfree choice\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Remember in the end, we are not buying EV\u2019s because they go further, cost less, or are more convenient, we\u2019re buying them because we want to stop storms in 100 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":337711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691821977,691829867,691829866],"class_list":{"0":"post-337706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-electric-vehicles-evs","9":"tag-power-inverters","10":"tag-wind-and-solar-industry","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/OIG-41-1.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1pQS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":252690,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=252690","url_meta":{"origin":337706,"position":0},"title":"Biden’s 67% EV policy: a dictatorial attack on the American driver and the US grid","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"14\/04\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Biden's proposed mandate of 67% EVs in the 2030s is a dictatorial attack on the American driver and the US grid that will","rel":"","context":"In \"Biden\"","block_context":{"text":"Biden","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=biden"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/09f9857d1-967d-4cb9-94ac-e33a3ad2563f_746x441.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/09f9857d1-967d-4cb9-94ac-e33a3ad2563f_746x441.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/09f9857d1-967d-4cb9-94ac-e33a3ad2563f_746x441.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/09f9857d1-967d-4cb9-94ac-e33a3ad2563f_746x441.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":238880,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=238880","url_meta":{"origin":337706,"position":1},"title":"Vital Energy Lessons for Virginia and America","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/01\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Legislators shouldn\u2019t Californicate Virginia or America on EVs and Green Energy","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-436.png?fit=1000%2C723&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-436.png?fit=1000%2C723&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-436.png?fit=1000%2C723&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-436.png?fit=1000%2C723&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":245437,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245437","url_meta":{"origin":337706,"position":2},"title":"Green Energy \u2014 The greatest transfer of wealth to the rich in history","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"25\/02\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"We are in the midst of history\u2019s greatest wealth transfer. 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