T his really blows my mind. According to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory we have all the tools we need to solve the energy crises right at our hands. All we have to do is switch over to the plug-in hybrid vehicles. The power grid is robust enough to handle the load.  Wished we could get our Camry hybrid converted to a plug-in tomorrow.  Here's what Mark Anderson writes about the issue:

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, managed since its inception as part of the Department of Energy by private contractor Battelle, released a report a week or two ago, which is so simple in its conclusions, and so amazing in its repercussions, that everyone interested in energy should be talking about it.

The report, in summary, says this:

There are about 220MM vehicles in service in the US today. IF all of those were converted to Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles (a technology already available), the existing US electrical grid system has enough unused off-hours generating capacity to power 84% of US transport of cars and light trucks.

Today.

 

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