[Uncledave]

Renewable Energy Ping

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[hadaclueonce]

Just to remind you, for every MW of wind generation on line, there needs to be an equal amount of other generation available to pick up rapidly when the wind stops blowing or blows to hard.

A little known fact is when the wind blows too hard the wind generator shut down.

Yes the wind generation does keep from burning fuel, but when it stops, there must be other generation available to pick up the load.

Just the NERC Reliability Coordinator in me that makes me say that.

[ckilmer]

Here's an interesting way to burn saltwater.. This process doesn't use electrolysis which is net negative in terms of energy production. Rather, the process uses radio waves, that apparently, are tuned to imitate the catalyst platinum -- to fool the water into thinking platinum is in the water. The destabilized water is then broken up by sodium ions Na in the water which are superheated by the radio waves and act as heat sinks much like metal in a microwave.

Early reports suggest the energy yield is more than 2-1.

The hydrogen is separated from the oxygen in a process not too dissimliar to current industrial process called carbon steam reforamtion. Carbon steam reformation uses heat pressure and platinum to create most of the hydrogen used in the US today.