Posted on 05/22/2023 5:13:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This is why our home solar produces 80% of the power my wife and I need in our all-electric home, with a plan to increase that if necessary. It's also why we're doing a lot more gardening, again with plans to increase our food production if necessary. The self-reliant Americans might sit back and let the elites wipe out their loyal Dim voters, which will reduce the power of the elites.
Self-reliance is the bane of the elite. Self-reliance is the backbone of a Republic, within limits. Everyone is reliant on the rule of law and ordered liberty.
“Distributed Generation”
This is dozens — tens of thousands of roof tops and other spaces — tops of shopping malls and parking structures as just two examples — all equipped with their own (smaller) battery banks, and all contributing to “the grid”.
Massive centralized generation and massive battery banks are inefficient, and “ten-ring vulnerable” as targets.
Distributed generation can’t easily be knocked out, as it comes from literally everywhere.
All the technology is now on the shelf to do this. Now. Today. Some residential solar electric systems already are tied in to their local grid and generate more than they use. Right now. Today.
Just make or incentivize many more. (Probably each one would be made a bit larger than they are at the moment, to provide some extra margin.)
The elites will confiscate your stuff before they will allow their power base to be affected. Do not assume they are stupid.
All the devises in your home will be controlled by the government and utilities.they will regulate the among a time of use. Not to mention the cost Apple seems to have started this already with their optimal charging.
In their utopian world all things are possible.
They can take my Bible, my garden, my solar panels, and my guns from my cold dead hands.
And you will be prioritized based on your social credit score.
Replacing 1 100MW Coal plant requires 4 100MW solar farms and 1800MW of energy storage.
If you want to have backup for rainy days replacing 1 100MW coal plant requires 4200MW of energy storage and 8 100MW solar farms."
It's actually much worse than that. Your math would be correct only if storage and removal of power with batteries was lossless. It is not. The most optimistic models are that you can only get ~80% of the energy you put in to come back out in the form of usable electricity.
So, if you put in 100MW of power, you'd return 80MW of power in an optimal situation. Your 4 100MW battery-storage banks would need to be 5 100MW banks. And, then that only applies if you have full-sun each and every day.
Because you don't know that the sun will shine every day, or that solar arrays will be generating peak power (which they don't on cloudy days), you need enough storage to potentially cover you for multiple days of no (or low) solar generation.
Another technology being studied is to make power-generating reservoirs (lakes), where your solar arrays power pumps that move water into a reservoir. When power is needed, it is released through hydro-generating turbines to make electricity, effectively "recycling" the water. Good luck with this too, as you're not going to move 100% of the water back upstream (so there's loss), and rivers that are capable of the volumes required for hydro-power are already used for that (but without the round-trip use). I can only imagine the greenies' heads exploding when they hear new reservoirs and new dams will be required.
That is exactly their plan.
Only at extremely high cost.
The ability to tie this all into the grid is not feasible at this time. Perhaps it can be in the future. The problem is in shutting down the grid and bringing it back up. You have to be able to shut down each contributor to the grid and isolate them from the grid. It is very difficult in practice, though it sounds easy.
I have one of those systems. It generates more than I use. It is tied into the grid. When the grid goes down, the system is shut down. Including battery charging into the system is expensive, and not so easy to do. Not impossible, but currently, residential systems which are tied into the grid are shut down when the grid goes down, so as to prevent repair crews from being fried.
It’s one more front in the all-out war against your well-being now being waged by our government.
What is the purpose of government?
Correct math. But nobody gets to hear that math. The-powers-that-be REFUSE to let that math be printed, be released on the news channels and even YouTube.
And NUKES!
And NUKES!
So, if "they" become targets of opportunity and we kill them, it is not murder, but self-defense.
So when they go down and my generator kicks in, they disconnect me, shut me down? Then what's the point of a generator?
“So, if “they” become targets of opportunity and we kill them, it is not murder, but self-defense.”
Pretty much how I see it too.
The virtual power plant will be using Unobtainium as fuel.
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