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

Re: I'm not anti-nuke at all (none / 0)

if your do that, you get hanged by the the aforementioned revolutionary council of public safety as a public safety hazard because you are now generating 3 times as much electricity as demanded on windy days, and you have nowhere to put it. This is.. Not safe. And you still need backup gas generators for quiet days.

by Thomas on Wed Jan 13th, 2010 at 05:59:21 PM EST
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Re: I'm not anti-nuke at all (4.00 / 5)

Um, which part of "continent-spanning electrical grid," "uncorrelated fluctuations," "interruptible delivery" and "pumped storage" do you fail to understand?

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Jan 13th, 2010 at 06:01:54 PM EST
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well, (4.00 / 4)

you can turn some wind farms off when there's too much power produced. This is not difficult to do
what is the problem with having lots of gas-fied plants that you use very little? The problem is burning the gas, not having the gas-fired plants.

You have to stop thinking only in MW and think also in MWh! In the old centralised world, talking of MW was enough, but that doesn't translate well to a world with wind, gas peakers, interruptible demand and other similar tools.

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Jan 13th, 2010 at 06:05:07 PM EST
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