On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:09 PM, R A Bennell <b...@mts.net> wrote:

> Also have to wonder what happens when a couple of hundred thousand people
> plug their car in at night. Does the
> power go off all over or just in some areas? Do you have to shut off your
> house AC so you can charge up the family
> buggy?
>

We ramp up generation spinning up turbines and bringing offline systems back
online. Night time generation is typically a lot lower than day time
generation. So I imagine that if electric cars became as huge as every
hippie says they will, then we just won't ramp down at the end of the day.

EdB
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