birder
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Post by birder on Apr 22, 2017 20:20:56 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Apr 22, 2017 22:56:50 GMT
Hurry, turn off all electrical devises so it gets back to 100%.
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Post by acidohm on Apr 23, 2017 4:59:59 GMT
I think the weather had a lot to do with it... not cold enough for heating, not warm enough for air-con!!!! Plus a Saturday so the sunshine prob had everyone outside using battery on their phone rather them computer/tv. Perfect conditions really... Bearing in mind I remember the power going out in west end London summer 2003 heatwave cuz all the aircon demand overloaded the system, and that every cold blast during winter...we come veeeery close to reached maximum supply!
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Post by nautonnier on Apr 23, 2017 15:33:28 GMT
Almost all the power was being supplied by gas powered generation stations. This should not overly please the greens despite the spin, as natural gas has become cheaper due to fracking which has led to a large increase in Combined Cycle Gas Generation plants.
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Post by nautonnier on May 14, 2017 16:16:27 GMT
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Post by nonentropic on May 14, 2017 17:49:34 GMT
The man speaks a lot of sensible stuff.
The real issue is that this is about anti Capitalism and pro Marxism.
The climate is wonderful because you have a massively difficult product to quantify thus your conclusions right or wrong are hard to dispute.
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Post by nautonnier on May 14, 2017 21:06:30 GMT
The man speaks a lot of sensible stuff. The real issue is that this is about anti Capitalism and pro Marxism. The climate is wonderful because you have a massively difficult product to quantify thus your conclusions right or wrong are hard to dispute. The most interesting quote from the article is that to the nearest whole % wind power globally produces 0% power but it gains its subsidy farmers huge sums from the poor taxpayers.
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birder
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Post by birder on May 26, 2017 21:55:48 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 6, 2017 12:22:47 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jun 13, 2017 17:33:43 GMT
A response to a post on WUWT on a Canadian Windfarm subsidy farm being scrapped, was something I hadn't seem before. "Parsons Brinckerhoff' (PB) Power, another engineering consultancy, in a report for the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) estimated in 2004 that stand-by costs could add around 45% to the costs for onshore wind and 30% to offshore wind.20 If this were the case, and taking our afore-quoted near-term project, the cost of onshore wind would become quite uneconomic and offshore wind even more absurdly expensive, as shown in chart 3........" ".....Other things being equal this would suggest that investment should be concentrated in gas and nuclear technologies. (A mix of technologies is preferable for operational reasons.) Both onshore and, especially, offshore wind fared relatively badly in this analysis, even though Mott MacDonald’s analysis for DECC excluded the costs of stand-by generation and transmission reinforcement. There is no economic case for expensive wind-power. It only adds to consumers’ energy bills – both domestically and business."blackmain.taylorpartners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ruth-Lea-The-Folly-of-Wind-Power-2011-10.pdf
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 22, 2017 22:27:28 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jun 22, 2017 23:07:57 GMT
Depends if the wind is blowing.
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Post by Ratty on Jun 22, 2017 23:28:29 GMT
Output would have been up when WAPO reporters visited the state; all that hot air is sure to have increased convection.
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Post by Ratty on Jun 28, 2017 5:11:00 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jun 28, 2017 17:44:39 GMT
A record! Aussies love records. Right Ratty? Denmark must demand a rematch.
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