Posted on 01/22/2017 3:27:09 PM PST by Olog-hai
President Donald Trump has disputed climate change, pledged a revival of coal and disparaged wind power, and his nominee to head the Energy Department was once highly skeptical of the agency’s value. What this means for states’ efforts to promote renewable energy is an open question.
States that are pushing for greater reliance on wind and solar power are not quite sure what to expect as Trump takes over. Many of them depend heavily on federal renewable-energy tax credits, grants and research, much of which comes from the Energy Department.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Trump’s pick to lead the department, presents a contradictory figure: A Texas oil promoter, he also oversaw a huge expansion of wind-energy production while governor. When he ran for president in 2011, he included Energy on a list of departments he thought should be abolished, though he disavowed the idea Thursday at his Senate confirmation hearing.
“We don’t know what version of Perry is going to show up,” said Michael Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. …
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I almost missed your post leaving the page. Caught it out of the corner of my eye and it’s a great summary of the situation.
Thank you for the reasoned response.
Very simple; people get to choose them if they want, just no special federal subsidy or promotion of them.
If the only thing that makes any form of energy “efficient” in dollars and cents, is direct federal subsidy and promotion, then in open markets they’d loose.
Just curious, how is it converted to AC efficiently?
If this waste isn’t ended I am not going to be happy
It had better be a Certainty!
Pretty good Johnny Cochranism right there!
End the theft, no more tax credits.
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With an inverter.
I use Heart inverters because they can be remotely controlled. My battery banks and solar panels are on a separate structure from the house.
Can it deliver five cents per kilowatt-hour at the residential meter?
The Allam power cycle is field testing 2nd half 2017. Gas and coal are fuel for the turbine system. Efficiency 52% on coal and 61% on NG, including the CO2 pumping losses into a pipeline for oilfield injection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFcbev1TkoU
Allam cycle gas turbine system of 350 MW will have a 2-3 hour start-up from cold. Electrical turn-down is 100% without a drastic loss of efficiency, yet still off loads CO2 produced from hot stand-by operation to a pipeline. Will load follow with a ramp of 3-5% per minute.
Absolutely!
Thank you. I did not know current technology.
Yet, isn’t it true that a non producing backup power source will take up to a few hours to come online after a wind calm, or a storm, reduces alt energy, so the turbine needs to be running on standby all the time to prepare for the immediate energy needs?
“Trump’s victory creates uncertainty for wind and solar power”
yeah, i don’t think there any uncertainty at all; I’m absolutely certain that all Fed subsidies of all types for solar and wind will be eliminated. part of that coming 10% budget cut no doubt.
This does not work very well for a factory, a hospital or even a traffic light.
Should they ever come up with a very small battery that will hold a weeks worth of power for a house, requires no maintenance, recharges on only an hour of sunlight and lasts for a good twenty years, why then solar power might become all the rage. At least in the more sunny areas of the country.
Until then, they are just wasteful welfare programs.
Good! Most of the ‘alternative energy’ schemes have been boondoggles with the corporations collecting federal dollars, then closing up shop.
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