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Originally Posted by Dusty
"Electricity doesn't grow on trees"
Many US cities have 'brown outs' when demand is high, now had a few million electric cars to the mix and see what happens.
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Do you know how many lights are burning every night that don't have any effect?
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Public lighting is the single largest source of local government's greenhouse gas emissions, typically accounting for 30 to 50% of their emissions. There are 1.94 million public lights - one for every 10 Australians - that annually cost $210 million, use 1,035 GWh of electricity and are responsible for 1.15 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.
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http://www.environment.gov.au/archiv...ing/index.html)
I always turn off lights when I'm not in that room. We installed LED lights in those areas where the light will be burning more (such as the hallway, which is in the middle of the house and very dark in the evening) and all our appliances are energy label A or higher (if possible).
I personally think you wouldn't really notice those few million cars.