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If there was good cause, someone should have said so

Who's to blame next? No telling. In fact, we don't know who's to blame now, though there are plenty of folks in Ouray looking for answers after the city council unanimously voted to fire City Administrator Katie Sickles Monday night. Sickles, who was hired a year ago almost to the day after a three-month trial run as interim administrator, may never know why she was released. Council voted to fire her without cause, which means they get to keep their reasons to themselves, and Sickles gets to keep a severance package. ....

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Letters: Electric-car owners will lose money feeding power into the National Grid


Tesla vehicles at charging stations outside a store in Rocklin, California, America
Credit: Bloomberg/David Paul Morris
SIR – It is proposed that electric car owners could connect their cars to the National Grid and allow the energy in their batteries to take some of the load at peak times (report, July 28). But such use would seriously compromise battery life.
A typical lithium-ion battery has a life of about 1,000 cycles. For a car like a Tesla S, a 100kWh battery costs about £10,000. So each charge cycle costs £10 – or 10p per kWh – in battery wear and tear alone.
This sum of 10p per kWh is nearly twice the current wholesale price of electricity. Unless car owners are prepared to bear the extra wear on their batteries without compensation (and who would?) the price of electricity would have to increase very significantly. ....

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