Virtually every thread started on this site leads to a source so why is that a problem with you and your buddy? Don't tell me you're becoming a groupie too?
Posted on 12/13/2013 1:20:47 PM PST by WayneLusvardi
Here is a site for the California power grid.
http://www.caiso.com/outlook/outlook.html
BTW solar never works at night and wind power never works on a calm day. Nuclear, gas, gas power plants always works 24/7
Because it looks as if you're using FR to drive traffic to your article instead of simply sharing information.
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Virtually every thread started on this site leads to a source so why is that a problem with you and your buddy? Don't tell me you're becoming a groupie too?
Solar energy: our fair-weather friend.
Not Really if we had a battery big enough to cover Texas.
Use daytime solar energy to do physical work like pumping water uphill.
Both currently exist only because of government largess courtesy of the taxpayers. On a pure economic basis, they are losers and a drain on the economy.
And it is well below 50% efficiency -- i.e. if you spend 1000 kw pumping up the hill, you get less than 500 kw when it comes back down.
Pump Storage is only used for 'peaking power' where in the middle of the night when electric rates are at their lowest, water is pumped to the top of the hill, and then the next afternoon when rates are at their peak, you allow the water to come back down. But it takes more than twice the energy to pump it to the top of the hill than you can harvest from it when it falls back down.
It only makes sense to do it when energy costs at peak demand is more than twice as much than rates at the period of lowest demand. On net, pump storage units consume more energy than they generate.
It is the same with every energy storage technology. It takes twice or more of the amount of energy to charge the battery than you can get out of it.
“Use daytime solar energy to do physical work like pumping water uphill.”
Compressing air, heating water, storing in batteries, etc?
Solar and wind are useful adjuncts to normal power production.
They can augment normal supplynat peak demands and are
useful during power outage/shortages. If all homes had 1 watt
per sq ft of area installed it would make a significant dent in the
need for peak power capacity for extreme heat events. It would
Help limit air pollution and save people money. Wind generation
In the right climes has the same advantages. If ALL new construction
required such as part of the building the costs would diminish due to
volume.
Solar/wind can never replace normal power production, it CAN
however be an effective supplement. An added benefit is if enough
homes and other new construction were to have added power supplies
a SHTF scenario might not be so bad....the effects could be mitigated
if enough private power generation capacity existed.
Maybe he is. But I enjoyed the article.
Oh, by all means, link to your source. Take credit for what you've written. If it's good, you deserve it. But FR is meant to be a place where like-minded people get together to exchange ideas, not fish for hits.
Just print the whole thing. No problems with that.
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