Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

[Commander Kinsey]

I meant getting the ice to where you use it. I thought your idea was to use ice too cool homes?

[Commander Kinsey]

Indeed, the p is a hundredth of a pound. No not a lb (or # in Merkin), the thing which is worth more than a dollar.

That's a fancy power supply. It's got daughterboards! What's so special about it?

[Commander Kinsey]

British Gas tried to get me to change to them. Some wanker came round my house and invited himself in. He promised me lower direct debit payments. I looked up the price per unit and asked him why it was more and what would happen since I wouldn't be paying enough. He got all flustered and left.

[Commander Kinsey]

I'm shortly going to be paying more standing charge than consumption. Paying money for using nothing? That's not right. Why not put all the money onto the unit cost?

[Commander Kinsey]

All because our governments are looking after the f****ng Ukraine.

[Commander Kinsey]

Exactly, there should be no taxpayers. Every man for themselves, it's the only fair way.

[Commander Kinsey]

If it's 0.1, there's 0.9 to use, duh.

[Commander Kinsey]

CO2 production is irrelevant.

[Commander Kinsey]

There is no cost once the wind turbine is up. But the coal power station keeps on eating coal.

[Commander Kinsey]

No you're not. The generator simply needs to be powerful enough to handle the highest winds.

[Commander Kinsey]

Indeed, slwoing down the wind has gotta make a direct impact. Those greenies are so thick.

[Max Demian]

That's what beer is for.

[upsidedown]

You make the ice at home during cheap night time electricity. During hot and expensive day, blow warm outside air through the ice into your home.

You may also integrate existing air conditioning units with the ice tank, thus reduce the temperature difference the AC has to work against and hence save expensive daytime electricity.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Here I have a much better solution. At night I open the windows and the concrete and masonry loses its heat and becomes a cool bank. By day I close the curtains and the windows and sit inside my cool masonry.

No electricity is involved at all

[Paul]

It's got gallium nitride power devices (for efficiency). Apparently one of the assemblies is "planar magnetics", which is uncommon in ATX supplies. Even though it uses toroids for the front end filter.

On modern supplies with double forward conversion, one of the daughterboards is a 12VDC to 3.3V/5V converter board. Older supplies used one "supply" for all outputs. Modern supplies are two stage. The daughterboard is the second stage, for the lower current rails.

You would need to read the review, to find out what the other daughterboards are for. Visual inspection does not suggest a function.

Paul

[rbowman]

Turbines keep on eating blades. Where do the damaged blades wind up?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Turbines fail about every 3 months. Usually gearboxes or bearings. They are serviced by fossil fuelled helicopters boats and 4WD vehicles.

A typical nuclear reactor stays up for about a year between outages, or even longer.

Coal is free too. Just like the wind. But you have to dig it up and transport it. But at least it's stored energy.

[Ian Jackson]

In message [e-mail]>, rbowman [e-mail] writes

Break them up, and use them in the foundations of new nuclear power stations?

[The Natural Philosopher]

They are balsa wood foam and fibreglass. 80% made from fossil fuel . Useless as foundations for anything. Better to burn them - get some energy back at least

[John Larkin]

I have never been sarcastic even once in my life.

They always should.