A new study from Europe’s clean transport & energy group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found that using the batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) to store energy and feed back into the grid could save hundreds of billions of dollars.
The promise of bidirectional charging – which allows vehicle to grid (V2G) and Vehicle to Home (V2H) technology – has become an increasingly attractive byproduct of the transition to EVs, creating the potential for a fleet of what T&E describes as “batteries on wheels” to store excess electricity when it is cheap and in surplus, and sending it back to the grid when demand is high.
According to the report, bidirectional charging and V2G could save the European Union’s energy systems €22 billion annually by 2040, somewhere around $A35 billion.
This would be equivalent to an 8 per cent reduction on the cost of building and running the EU’s energy system, resulting in total savings of as much as €175.45 billion (around $A290 billion).
The economic savings would be generated by helping to store excess renewable energy, avoiding the need for stationary storage by up to 92 per cent and allowing European grids to integrate up to 40 per cent more solar PV capacity, or as much as 430GW by 2040.
Moreover, by storing excess renewable electricity that would otherwise be lost, the report predicts that Europe’s EV fleet could contribute up to 9 per cent of the EU’s annual power needs by 2040, making EVs the fourth largest electricity “supplier” in the EU.
New study finds that using the batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) to store energy and feed back into the grid could save hundreds of billions of dollars.
Whatever happens, let's keep positive and noit freak out! (I know this is easy to say from the other side of the ocean) As an answer to that little piece of music above, I'm giving you here an orchestra version of John Cage's 4'33" . It doesn't get faster. Hope you can enjoy!
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It's better to keep calm. What can we do about things? As a German citizen living in Germany I can't even go voting in the US, though I fear its outcome might have implications for the rest of the world. The extreme right is already rising all over Europe, and if Trump wins it will push them forward.
Yeah, the same tools used to silence Trump supports would also be used to silence pro-Palestinian protestors. When people in power get to decide a wrong side or a right side, or designate who is protesting and who is rioting... We have laws in place to handle incitements to violence, hare speech, etc. We just need the powers that be to actually use them. Right now they aren't bothering because they don't want to make waves in case Trump gets elected, or because Republicans in power will just dole out pardons.
Why is social media being held to standards that are not applied to traditional media, in person speech, etc.?
Having seen how countries that don't have freedom of speech laws, I'll take the bad with the good on that one. We can certainly expand the criteria for "incitement" laws. Yelling fire in a crowded area to start a stampede that causes people to get hurt is illegal, but yelling "secret underground pedophile ring in tunnels under DC controlled by the Jews" that causes people to get hurt is not... and we can change that.
Social media is literally breaking society apart by promoting lies, misinformation and hate speech.
Idgaf where the ideals come from if they plumb do not work.
Allowing social media to continue as it has so far is not working.
We are dying.
Democracy is not safe anywhere.
Nobody has a fix for this.
Now: The social media platforms already have algorithms capable of silencing the really bad stuff, the antivaxxers, the racists, the fascists, the evangelical nutballs, the climate denialists.
But they don't use them, because that would silence the GOP, which is looking out for their Billionaire owners.
Misinformation was spread before social media existed. It will continue to spread after. The problem is that you can't control it because it's international, and people and sites in different locations are beholden to different laws. You could have state run social media like China, that everyone is scared to use for fear of arrest and using VPNs to access Facebook or Twitter. You can have North Korea, where everyone is cut off from the outside world and any news or opinions that aren't controlled by state run media.
I get what you are saying, but the solution is not cut and dry and real world examples of implementing them are fucking terrible. Better education about spotting misinformation. Teaching better critical thinking skills to spot AI or deepfakes. How to actually do research and not just trust random satire articles that people think are news. Giving people the skills to combat misinformation will carry over to any medium it might be presented in, even if Uncle Bob makes a compelling argument about it over Sunday dinners.
When Twitter tried to block hate speech and misinformation before Elmo took over, people just left and started their own "free speech" social medias instead. Sure that lessoned their reach, but people just screen-shotted the posts and reposted them on Twitter anyway.
Idgaf. We have tried being liberal. Either we figure a way to silence the hate and misinformation, or we will have to have an extended period of straight up killing the people dumb enough to fall for it.
Civil war is unavoidable if we cannot fix it.
Me, I prefer silencing dumbasses to murdering them.
Do what I say or I'll kill you is the same shit MAGAs say while claiming it's to "protect the children". It doesn't become okay when the other side says it either.
I haven't checked the source thoroughly, it seems to be some kind of political party, but I'd say the article gives a fair and accurate description. Thanks @Emmanuel Florac for sharing it.
Every social media platform eventually turns into a "cesspool", especially if it has an algorithm that makes it thrive on "enraged engagement" for individualized ad revenue.
Oh no--gonna shut down X/Twitter? What the hell does the Muskrat expect folks to do with all the time they won't be wasting online? People might start to use their brains to learn new things & increase critical thinking, or talk with civility to complete strangers instead of knee-jerk all-caps typing, shouting and bullying? He must be crazy or something!
Elon Musk has claimed that Kamala Harris will shut down X, formerly known as Twitter, if she wins the 2024 US presidential election. Speaking on the Joe...
Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in an episode released on Monday, 4 November, the billionaire declared that there was “no way” the Democratic candidate’s “puppet regime” would allow the social media platform to exist.
A new study from Europe’s clean transport & energy group Transport & Environment (T&E) has found that using the batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) to store energy and feed back into the grid could save hundreds of billions of dollars.
The promise of bidirectional charging – which allows vehicle to grid (V2G) and Vehicle to Home (V2H) technology – has become an increasingly attractive byproduct of the transition to EVs, creating the potential for a fleet of what T&E describes as “batteries on wheels” to store excess electricity when it is cheap and in surplus, and sending it back to the grid when demand is high.
According to the report, bidirectional charging and V2G could save the European Union’s energy systems €22 billion annually by 2040, somewhere around $A35 billion.
This would be equivalent to an 8 per cent reduction on the cost of building and running the EU’s energy system, resulting in total savings of as much as €175.45 billion (around $A290 billion).
The economic savings would be generated by helping to store excess renewable energy, avoiding the need for stationary storage by up to 92 per cent and allowing European grids to integrate up to 40 per cent more solar PV capacity, or as much as 430GW by 2040.
Moreover, by storing excess renewable electricity that would otherwise be lost, the report predicts that Europe’s EV fleet could contribute up to 9 per cent of the EU’s annual power needs by 2040, making EVs the fourth largest electricity “supplier” in the EU.
New study finds that using the batteries in electric vehicles (EVs) to store energy and feed back into the grid could save hundreds of billions of dollars.
#Sudan’s Civil War Has Killed at Least 62,000. The True Figure May Be Far More.
"A profound humanitarian crisis is occurring in Sudan, characterized by ethnic cleansing, mass displacement, food scarcity and the spread of disease, complicated further by flooding in the northern states."