I have one that trickle charges a bank of 16 royals deep cell batteries that provide emergency power through a trace inverter.
Works well but I’m living in a place where wind averages 20mph an I don’t depend on this source. It will run basics in my home when we lose power in ice or thunderstorms etc...
They have their place but not in the commercial energy grid IMO.
Ones we have here in the panhandle of Texas are running yet the quality of power to the distribution point is so up an down its expensive to corral properly according to friends that do such for a living.
1 thorium based nuclear power plant per 1 million in population is a formula America needs to adopt.
Got to be fixed yesterday....
Good arguments! I have an even better climate for wind, but we have to build the
good turbines ourselves. ...even better for sun here (well over 300 days out of the year). Agreed on nuclear for commercial. That would be the best answer that I know of for air conditioning down there.
I heard that nuclear needs a lot of water for cooling, though. ...maybe around the Gulf Coast for Texas? Will ocean water work for that? And in the dryer parts of the West here, that might be a no-go. But many of us in the West already have better conditions for sun (especially), wind, etc. ...and real nasty weather (dry, cold, windy, high, etc.). We on the northern half of the Range don't need air conditioning, though.
Northern wet places? Nuclear would probably be great in those, along with wood/coal boilers for homes and the like.