The Washington Post ran a lengthy article last week bemoaning the fact that AI is sucking up so much power that it's already straining the nation's electric grid and is bad for the environment.
How will the grid be able to handle the millions of electric cars environmentalists want to force on the road? The answer might shock you.
At the same time, we keep being reassured that the power grid will have no problem handling the millions of "Clean" electric cars that President Joe Biden and his climate-crisis pals want to force onto the market, each of which draws massive amounts of electricity off the grid as they recharge.
"With careful planning and the right infrastructure, parked and plugged-in EVs could become mass power banks, stabilizing the electric grids of the future. In this way, we can think of EVs as big batteries on wheels, helping to make sure that there is always enough energy for everyone at any given time," says one advocate.
In practical terms, what "Bidirectional charging" means is that if you plug your car in at a time when the grid needs power, it will suck energy out of your car's batteries.
"The batteries in an electric vehicle are very powerful. They are an asset that can power much more than just the vehicle," says state Sen. Nancy Skinner.
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