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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (10540)	7/4/2009 9:52:20 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Hawk, several studies have been done on this subject and they all conclude the same thing, namely, that our current electrical supplies have plenty of idle capacity to provide power for all of our electricity needs as well as most of the EVs that would replace most of our cars. In fact, idle capacity could be used to power 84% of the cars on the road today, if they were replaced with EVs. newswire.ascribe.org In addition to that, there are several vehicle to grid pilots out there that will use recharging vehicles as storage systems for additional idle electricity power. This could be part of the solution to providing additional storage. My own belief is that the future is going to be a majority combination of solar, wind, and nukes, with maybe some coal if they can perfect that carbon sequestration technology, which I doubt.