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Old Jun 29, 2023 | 10:42 AM
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^^ google is your friend.

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Ontario Power Generation (OPG) produces 50% of the electricity used in the province, 40% from hydroelectric, 10% from nuclear-powered facilities, 30% from solar, and 20% from biomass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroe...from%20biomass.
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Old Jun 29, 2023 | 10:48 AM
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As always devil is in the details. While it's true Canada gets a large chunk of electricity from hydro it's because our population is very low considering land mass. United States generates more hydro than Canada. If you want to see a massive hydro gig look up 3 Gorges Dam. Project is so massive the displacement of water has altered the axis of earth (no joke).
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Old Jun 29, 2023 | 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by LeX2K
If you want to see a massive hydro gig look up 3 Gorges Dam. Project is so massive the displacement of water has altered the axis of earth (no joke).
and i'm sure it didn't get hung up for years in stupid environmental studies.

95 terawatts a year from hydro there.
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Old Jul 5, 2023 | 02:14 PM
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https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla...aking-150-day/

Would be cool to see this done with vehicles. Usable capacity on a Powerwall is something like 13.5kWh where a car has something like 70kWh+ (wild guess).
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Old Jul 5, 2023 | 02:33 PM
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Vehicle to grid is great on paper but cycling your battery is the same as charging/driving you only get so many charges. Something to keep in mind.
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Old Jul 5, 2023 | 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by LeX2K
Vehicle to grid is great on paper but cycling your battery is the same as charging/driving you only get so many charges. Something to keep in mind.
1500 to 2000 full drain and charge cycles over the lifetime of a typical Li Ion battery pack. Unless it's an emergency and you need to power your house, using a Tesla Wall or similar is a better option
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Old Jul 5, 2023 | 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by LeX2K
Vehicle to grid is great on paper but cycling your battery is the same as charging/driving you only get so many charges. Something to keep in mind.
True. Although from the papers I've been reading on Li-Ion wear, shallow charge/discharge cycles on lithium batteries around the 60-40% or 70-30% range causes very little wear on the battery with the deep 100-0 cycles causing the greatest degradation levels.

For example, 2 x Powerwalls have 27kWh of usable capacity which represents only about 34% of the actual capacity of the battery pack in my car.


https://batteryuniversity.com/articl...ased-batteries

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