Other countries, Europe is a grid where electricity is bought and sold from
country to country.
Amities
Philippe
2016-10-18 18:43 GMT+02:00 Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I challenge you to find where I've said anything at all about the
> necessity of burning dead dinosaurs. What I did say is that it's necessary
> to have complete backup generating capacity. If the Swedes will sell hydro
> and nuclear power to Denmark as backup capacity that's great. But there's
> a limit. I don't think there are likely to be any new hydro resources
> coming on line any time soon and neither will Sweden
> be building any new reactors except as replacements for existing
> capacity. With fixed hydro and nuclear capacity their own energy growth is
> dependent on renewables. Who gets the hydro and nuclear backup capacity
> then?
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> Chuck Norcutt
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> On 10/18/2016 3:35 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
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>> Complete rubbish that ignores the realities of today. Denmark is
>> mentioned in the article. The country generates half of its
>> electricity from wind, and the places where the turbines are—mainly
>> on the North Sea coast—the wind is very reliable. And when needed, we
>> can buy electricity from neighbouring countries like Sweden with lots
>> of stable sources like hydro and nuclear power. There is absolutely
>> no reason to burn dead dinosaurs in power plants these days.
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>> Cheers, nathan
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>> Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu
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>> On 17 Oct 2016, at 12:54, Chuck Norcutt
>>> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> I think it foolish rather than impressive. This same wind powered
>>> grid that provided 100% of electrical demand for a single day could
>>> tomorrow drop to 2% of electrical demand. Because of that everyone
>>> of these existing wind turbines and those yet to come represent
>>> duplication of existing generating capacity. That's because power
>>> must still be produced when the wind doesn't blow.
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>>> Why is it that the renewables industry has been allowed to press
>>> ahead with new solar and wind farms when there is no practical
>>> battery/storage technology known that can store the surplus power
>>> for when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow? A day of
>>> reckoning is coming when people finally realize that all of this
>>> investment is duplicating the existing power generating capacity
>>> with no hope of the renewables making it on their own... ever.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
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>>> On 10/16/2016 4:34 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
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>>>> Thanks for the link, Philippe. Impressive!
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>>>> Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA
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>>>> On 10/16/2016 2:49 PM, Philippe wrote:
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>>>>> I'm really happy the Scots have been able to make something out
>>>>> of it these days.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/j58epyj
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>>>>> Amities Philippe
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