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To: boris
"This is demonstrably false."

So demonstrate.

9 posted on 08/21/2003 10:19:24 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog
"So demonstrate."

The reason the grid exists is because of economies of scale. It simply is not possible to build a "small" electric power plant with the same efficiency as that of a big one. Big ones can use topping, bottoming, intercooling, and many stages in their turbines. Little ones cannot--and remain both little and cost-effective.

Basic physics.

--Boris

29 posted on 08/22/2003 7:45:56 AM PDT by boris (Education is always painful; pain is always educational.)
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