Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

On 4 Jul 2024 at 10:58:07 BST, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 04/07/2024 10:06, alan_m wrote:

Another half truth by the industry. It's only cheaper when it works and
if you ignore the backup required for when it doesn't and the extra
infrastructure costs required to distribute it.

 
It isn't even cheaper then.
Some of us have run the numbers...
 

Care to share ;-)

Per gigawatt a wind turbine is cheaper than a nuclear power station but
that ignores
- the shorter lifetime of the windmill
- the capacity factor of the windmill
- the massive maintenance cost associated with a windmill.
 

I find it hard to believe that the revenue costs (per unit of electricity) of
a wind turbine exceeds those of nuclear.

Before you even get into the ancillary crap needed to attempt to make a
silk purse out of a pigs ear...

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Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK