Some of the better combined cycle gas turbines and coal thermal plants are pushing 50% efficiency. Problem is there is barely enough installed capacity to carry peak loads Mon-Fri during the daytime and early evening. From approx 6 or7AM to appprox 7or 9 or so PM is peak demand for 12-15 hrs. To plug in electric cars galore daytime will require every dirty antiquated coal thermal plant to be fired up. Electric cars plugged in at 08:00 and 5,6,7PM when people get home. That isn't making clean air with electric cars. More high priced peak generating plants will have to be built to carry the electric cars. These $$$ are going to sit idle all weekend and from midnight to morning weekdays. Net result is your hydro bill is going up per KW/hr. For electric cars to work the only time to plug them in weekdays is 11:00AM to 4PM during the spring and fall.And not at all during the summer and winter. Any time weekends and from midnight to 6:00AM.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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