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Renewable Power Fail – As Usual – April 2010
PA Pundits International ^ | 23 July 2010 | TonyfromOz

Posted on 07/23/2010 7:16:40 AM PDT by TonyfromOz

Renewable Power is being hyped as the direction for the future, and is even in Legislation the Democrats hope to pass. Real World statistics for Renewable Power show something entirely different. These stats are for the U.S. and for the month of April, and the accompanying commentary shows that Wind Power and Solar Power just cannot deliver the power required absolutely, and that they never will.


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: renewablepower; solarpower; windpower

1 posted on 07/23/2010 7:16:41 AM PDT by TonyfromOz
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To: TonyfromOz
Man from OZ, nuclear power is renewable energy, ever heard of a breeder reactor.
2 posted on 07/23/2010 7:23:14 AM PDT by org.whodat
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To: All

A lot of folks here where I live, are off the grid.
They are on Solar.


3 posted on 07/23/2010 7:24:21 AM PDT by troy McClure
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To: TonyfromOz

Thanks for the interesting article, especially the daily usage profile.


4 posted on 07/23/2010 7:27:32 AM PDT by agere_contra (Obama did more damage to the Gulf economy in one day than Pemex/Ixtoc did in nine months)
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To: troy McClure
I have a friend that was going to move out on some land, build a barn with an apartment, go solar and build a house for his family.

A few years later I visited and no house. I asked when he was going to build it. He pointed to his solar setup and said that was where the house money went. And would keep going as the batteries needed to be replaced periodically.

5 posted on 07/23/2010 7:39:35 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: troy McClure

You can go off the grid right now. There is a big switch in your panel box, turn it off.


6 posted on 07/23/2010 7:50:11 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: hopespringseternal

That is sadly typical of solar installations where someone tried to do it on a tight budget.

I saw no shortage of installations in central NV where some PV vendor had supplied truck or marine batteries for the storage. They work for a year or two, then they have to be replaced. When you’re talking of a 48V system and the vendor paralleled batteries to increase the effective capacity, we’re talking 8 batteries at abot $300 a pop. Add in the inverter, panels, wiring, etc and it becomes real easy to sink $30K into a system and still not have done it correctly.

I continue to maintain the PV is very uneconomical. I can put together a genset with something like and old Lister diesel and alternator that will run forever, can be fixed with spit and bailing wire and will come in well under $15K. The difference between my method and the PV method can buy the diesel fuel for years to come.

Add in heat recovery from the exhaust to heat the domestic hot water and you can achieve overall efficiencies of about 60%.


7 posted on 07/23/2010 7:57:19 AM PDT by NVDave
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To: Willie Green; TonyfromOz

Will this be noted by the high speed rail experts or swept under the carpet as I suspect?


8 posted on 07/23/2010 8:54:38 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Remember, guys, the enemy is to the left and the middle.)
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