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Here’s an article on the use of EVs as a tool to power our homes and/or send electricity back to the grid.  My comments are in italics.
A study by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute shows how electric vehicles (EVs) could double as home storage batteries using bidirectional charging.  Yes, this is called “vehicle-to-grid,” aka “V2G.” 
It was an interesting concept in the 2000-aughts but has gone essentially nowhere over the last two decades, largely because amount of electrical energy in an EV’s battery is not worth the inconvenience and the cost of the vast amount of technology necessary to make all his happen.
Also, let’s suppose that an EV owner wants to commit to having a certain number of  kWhrs taken from his battery every day at a given time, but his plans change, he needs to use his car for some purpose that he couldn’t have foreseen, and now he’s stranded.  That’s not an appealing deal.  
Most EVs in Germany are driven for just 1 hour daily, leaving 23 hours of idle time. During this downtime, EVs could stabilize energy grids by storing and sharing power when demand peaks.
The amount of time EVs are not driven is totally irrelevant to this discussion.   
This strategy could boost solar and wind energy use, as EVs could store excess daytime energy and release it at night.
Sorry, but no.  Part of the reason that V2G will never be implemented is that it would have an infinitesimal impact on our grid-mix, while coming along with a huge price tag.  
For individual EV owners, this could mean annual savings of €31 to €780 by sharing stored energy with their home or the grid.
Doubtless, if an individual EV owner wants to make this investment, there will some return.  €31/year is less than $0.09 per day.  That doesn’t sound too motivating to me, but maybe I’m just a hard sell. 
BTW, I can’t find this “study.”  I’m thinking that, if it exists at all, it was written about 20 years ago, when this subject was actually under consideration. 

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How Should the Measles/Mumps/Rubella Vaccine Be Administered? Should You Ask a High School Baseball Coach?

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There are so many things going wrong in this country simultaneously that it’s hard to list them all.

Here’s something that no one could have seen coming: (see short video here) crackpot politicians giving parents insane medical advice about how to care for their children.

If I told you that our country’s parents were making decisions on vaccinating their children based on information provided by figure skaters or lawn mower salesmen, you wouldn’t believe me.

But the case is actually worse; it’s coming from the White House.

How Should the Measles/Mumps/Rubella Vaccine Be Administered? Should You Ask a High School Baseball Coach?

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Do Americans Approve of Our Country’s Execution of Innocent People?

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In this short video on the bombing of ships leaving Venezuela, President Trump asserts that drug overdoses took like lives of more than 350,000 people last year, a figure that, according to the CDC, is actually 79,383.

In any case, the video fails to mention that executing people who have not been charged with and convicted of a crime is a violation of both domestic and international law.

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Why January 6th Wasn’t the End of Trump/MAGA

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Keep in mind that, in 2020, more than 70 million voters cast their ballots for Trump, who, though he is a pathological liar, is 100% trusted by his supporters.  When Trump said the election was rigged, the vast majority of these folks believed him.  Even today, more than five years later, there are still millions of people who believe there was rampant voter fraud in the election.

Now, is storming the Capitol and beating up/killing law enforcement personnel an acceptable solution? It wouldn’t be for you or me, or most people, but imagine you’re an uneducated white-supremacist MAGA guy, and your president is telling you to do whatever’s necessary to prevent the election from being certified.

These are people who were so desperate to hang Mike Pence that the vice president had to be escorted out of the Capitol building to a secret and secure location, so he didn’t end up at the end of a rope.

When asked about this, Trump replied, “Maybe he deserved it.” To anyone trying to make sense of this, remember that you’re dealing with a deeply disturbed individual, and many millions of truly pathetic people who believe his is an honest and effective servant of the American people.  In congress, we have a couple of hundred of the most terrible butt-kissers imaginable, all clamoring to curry favor with him.

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