I have never seen NO wind power but I have certainly seen it < 1% of rated capacity.
OT The economics of energy
Jul 17, 2019
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And for days at a time, too.
No it isn't it just wastes fuel and produces more CO2. Its probably better than all the diesel generators they have had to install to cope with the cr@p windy mills that can't respond at all when the weather changes.
Nearer two thirds in winter even when its sunny weather.
Never heard of gas turbines?
Why on earth would you install diesel generators? Perfectly possible to run a near conventional piston engine off gas. Let alone a turbine.
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Typically, because they are installed in rural areas where there is no gas supply.
When I went round the Jaguar car works about 1956 I discovered that all their engines were 'run in' on town gas.
Its not spin, there are frequent days when the wind output is almost zero. So low as to be useless in real terms.
I suppose you think its spin to point out that solar output drops to zero at night too.
Ask the government, that's what they have done.
Jeeze Dave, you are out of touch. The National Grid has been paying people to install banks of diesel generators for some years now, to be available at a moment's notice when the appropriate button is pressed in some control centre somewhere.
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There are no days when there's no wind. It moves around.
Balls!
But there are plenty of days when there's next to no wind, just zephyrs, nothing useful. The idea that it's always blowing somewhere is a fantasy much beloved by naive greens such as Harry.
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Nor does he charge for coal in the ground.
Bill
No, but He has seen fit after leaving it lying around on the surfacvea lot, to leave the rest of it where its a pain in the arse to reach it.
If you have already built a recator and a coal power staion, its te reactor that will be 1/10th of the price to run.
Harry just wants us to build 100 times more windy mills so he can have one in his back garden and get paid for it. He doesn't actually care if it saves CO2 as long as he gets cash.
Of course it does s*it-fer-brains. It follws the low pressure systems as they track in from the Atlantic, across the Ireland, UK. Scandanavia etc
We have to pay to extract them from the ground , process and transport them. Plus pay for the detrius after use. You really are thick.
balls!!
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