Posted on 02/27/2008 5:19:12 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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Thanks. Ugly aren’t they?. We should put them out to sea far enough to not affect the view. A storm coming in could give us enough energy for a year:’)
I have two thoughts about why this happened and what can be done to fix it.
1. I guess Odessa doesn’t suck any more.
2. Maybe we can fix the problem by calling a special session of the legislature. That ought to produce enough wind.
There’s some new battery technology in the offing that will help. In fact, creating effective storage for the energy generated by wind or solar is one of the major problems they need to overcome.
LOL, talk about your early warning system! When the lights go out, it’s time to duck!
Welcome to Lib-O-Power. Reliability in our power matches reliability in our logic. Wind power is neat, but we still need good storage (buffering) ability. It ain’t here yet.
Cutting power to large industrial customers for a few hours every few years my be a reasonably trade-off for not having to build the peakers needed to archive that last .01% of reliability to such customers.
On Tuesday out here on the Texas High Plains, the wind generators probably blew over in our 60 mph winds. I needed to sweep out my shop so I just opened the front and rear doors and let ‘er rip.
The King Ranch and the Kenedy Ranch are at odds right now over a wind farm proposed on the Kenedy Ranch.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2008/2008-01-02-091.asp
Also I think I saw an article just a day or so ago about T Boone Pickens working on a large project for the Panhandle.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975560/posts
If we could harness the hot air around Austin when the Legislature is in session we may have a viable project there.
1100 megawatts in 10 minutes! Whoa!
That’s huge, folks. A heckuva lot of load to shed/accommodate in 10 minutes. That would be an enormous amount of rolling reserve.
The wind stops and your power goes out????
Brilliant!
It’s a supplementary source. Notice it was a drop in wind plus other sources not providing the power that caused this.
The dirty little secret is that because “renewable” energy is not reliable, you still have to build back-up capacity using regular technology - i.e. fossil fuels or nukes. So you end up with double capacity.
Saw him the other morning talking up the alternatives, but by now, they should have as many turbines out there as people.
Sadly, I'd say Austin will never allow their "view" to be cluttered, a la Ted Kennedy.
Why do I find myself thinking of the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles?
Wind adds power to the grid, not capacity. You still have to build the same number of *real* power plants to add capacity to the grid. Wind is a silly little affectation that is distracting from the real issue.
We can send you Jennifer Granholm to your state.....she blows more than the wind.
They have a narrow range of peak efficiency. A big storm would be more likely to blow them down than generate useful power.
And there is no means of effectively storing the energy.
Its a sham and always has been a sham to anybody who can do the basic math.
Welcome to the rat energy future. The glorious sun and wind will supply all of our energy. When there is a failure, just blame it on global warming.
BUMP!
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