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<br><div><div>On Dec 19, 2008, at 6:55 P, Ian Ward wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Eventually, we'll need more electric generation capacity</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Not so much as you might think. Capacity has to allow for hot summer afternoons. Cars can charge at night, when there's loads of headroom. </div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">POs for real deliveries) should go to real domestic innovators like Tesla, Commuter Cars, AC Propulsion, Aptera, Enova, Azure Dynamics (actually Canadian), UQM, Raser, A123, AltairNano, and Valence to buy the assets and hire the people to rebuild the industry.</font></div></blockquote><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OMG! That's a capital idea!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></div><div>--Gil</div></body></html>