But credit Kempton for getting people to think about innovative ways to lower energy costs.
Huber is skeptical of the Kempton plan because there are other ways utilities can store energy.
Stateside, two companies are vying for the license to provide aggregation service to the U.S. market, said Kempton.
General Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts of Kempton says that's missing the point of the state's affordable housing law.
In Kempton's scenario the car owners get no payment for the electricity because they are not generating it.
The Kempton plan is just one of several proposed schemes for interconnecting the country's transportation and electric networks.
Murray Kempton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist who died in 1997, was an entirely different kind of writer.
Kempton parks a plug-in Toyota Scion in his garage that can discharge 19 kilowatts of power from its battery.
Kempton argues his idea doesn't have to wait for cheaper batteries, the main stumbling block to production of electric vehicles.
Trading standards officers said they found 80 of the "bling" children's dummies at Kempton Park market, near Sunbury, on 1 December.
If Dr Ubani had succeeded in his application to the court in Kempton, Bavaria, the Gray brothers would have faced a European-wide injunction.
Kempton's response: Driver patterns are predictable, and motorists could control when utilities tapped their car for power, making sure they wouldn't be stranded.
Willett Kempton has a more exotic approach: turn cars into rolling power stations that can provide clean energy when utilities need it most.
Kauto Star fell in last year's big race, and although he won well on his seasonal return, he was out of sorts at Kempton.
Kempton's theory is beginning to win applause from some car and utility folks, but daunting technical and economic obstacles make it a tough sell.
The abandonment of the King George VI meeting at Kempton Park racecourse after a bomb warning brings back memories of the 1997 Grand National.
Kempton realized that most of the power available from electric cars' large batteries was being wasted, because the cars sit parked 95% of the time.
In May 2007 Kempton formed a coalition of utility and energy experts--Mid-Atlantic Grid Interactive Cars, or Magic--and sought funding to prove the V2G business model.
Kempton sketches out the (admittedly hypothetical) economics of an all-electric car.
In an article published that year by Kempton and colleague Steven Letendre, they laid out the economics, the electric engineering, and how to calculate earnings.
Not true, according to Kempton, whose research team studied road-use statistics and found that even during the worst traffic periods nearly 90% of cars are idle.
"When I run it backwards at full power, " says Kempton, "I'm running my whole block, " or he would be if the system were up and operating.
The Kempton evacuation brought scenes reminiscent of the IRA bomb warning on 5 April 1997 which caused the postponement of the Grand National at Aintree on Merseyside.
Kempton, a wiry, 59-year-old renewable energy professor at the University of Delaware with round, wire-rimmed glasses, is the U.S.' foremost proponent of what's known as vehicle-to-grid technology.
Sporting fixtures continued to fall foul of the weather, with race meetings at Kempton and Lingfield called off and the weekend's racing, rugby and football fixtures under threat.
McCoy's biggest win of the season came at Kempton in Boxing Day's King George VI Chase aboard Best Mate, a ride he took following regular jockey Jim Culloty's suspension.
Kempton parks a plug-in Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) Scion in his garage that can discharge 19 kilowatts of power from its battery.
There was the fibrillating heart, of course, treatment for which meant he couldn't race again until last month, when soundly defeated at Kempton by Gold Cup opponent Madison Du Berlais.
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Taranis is expected to take his chance for champion trainer Paul Nicholls and punters have been quick to support the youngster for Kempton's King George VI Chase on Boxing Day.
But such is Kempton's sense of drama, for the grandeur of the clashes he describes, above all for the pathos and irony of failed aspiration, that one ceases to mind.
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