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Load-following and intermittency | 37 comments (37 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Engineering Fundamentals Alert (none / 1)

Please don't compare nuclear submarines to baseload power plants. One fundamental of military engineering is that there are no cost considerations.

As for the French, what is the intermittent source that the nukes have been following?

by rootless2 on Sat Feb 13th, 2010 at 12:55:47 PM EST
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Re: Engineering Fundamentals Alert (none / 1)

Still, the US Navy (and Royal, Soviet and French navy) experience should tell us a lot about the mechanical stresses imposed by load following.

The intermittence the French nukes follow is not an intermittent source; but the intermittent demand.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sat Feb 13th, 2010 at 04:58:28 PM EST
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Re: Engineering Fundamentals Alert (none / 0)

If there is no intermittent source, why would they have an intermittent load?

by rootless2 on Sat Feb 13th, 2010 at 07:49:43 PM EST
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Re: Engineering Fundamentals Alert (none / 1)

People don't use power all the time.

- 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 Sun Feb 14th, 2010 at 02:13:30 AM EST
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Re: Engineering Fundamentals Alert (none / 0)

yes but this is generally predictable and slow.

by rootless2 on Sun Feb 14th, 2010 at 04:31:51 AM EST
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Re: Engineering Fundamentals Alert (4.00 / 3)

Nope, it's on the same scale. The largest amplitude change, the daily variation can be up to 50%. See the upper bound of the curves in the diagrams in the diary.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Feb 14th, 2010 at 05:24:00 AM EST
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