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Let's blame wind for energy disruptions! | 195 comments (194 topical, 1 editorial, 0 hidden)

"Displacement" is a strange framing, too - why not just "share"?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Jan 12th, 2010 at 09:45:38 AM EST
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Re: well (none / 1)

Well that's my point: displacement looks at it from the direction of existing plants, "share" would be a percentage of a changing total.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jan 12th, 2010 at 09:48:26 AM EST
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And since ... (4.00 / 3)

... sustainable renewable power sources are "harvested" rather than strictly speaking "produced", displacement of a stable benchmark generating capacity is a very useful measure for analysis of different portfolio components and different portfolio mixes.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Jan 12th, 2010 at 12:10:42 PM EST
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"displacement" (4.00 / 3)

because in that case the study was about artifically injecting wind into the existing system, and analysing what kind of production, and what kind of capacity, was no longer needed, from the exisitng system.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 12th, 2010 at 10:09:07 AM EST
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