Re: OT: EV Charging Stations Stripped of Copper Cables

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...
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.
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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