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Post by nautonnier on Nov 11, 2020 14:44:43 GMT
Full text download here: www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2020/11/Grid-shortages.pdfThis could be cured by a contractual supply requirement -- so "WindfarmZ SHALL continuously supply 15MW of power at a consistent frequency to match with the National Grid throughout the contract period. Failure to do so will result in customer obtaining power elsewhere and charging all costs to WindfarmZ" That should be the format then the onus is on the windfarms/solar farms not on the Grid
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Post by walnut on Nov 11, 2020 15:03:25 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 11, 2020 15:17:26 GMT
AND more importantly they do not provide sufficient baseload power to create new versions of themselves. So to get replacements it is necessary to go to a country that has sufficient baseload power... China - well what a surprise!!
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 14, 2020 14:43:05 GMT
"Why did France have to relight its coal-fired power stations? The French government has compensated EDF with 377 million euros when it forces it to close the Fessenheim nuclear power plant. Now France has to restart coal plants to compensate for the loss in electricity. An absurd situation because everyone loses in this story.
This is the epilogue of a long story: the government will pay 377 million euros to compensate EDF for the closure of the two reactors at the Fessenheim nuclear power plant. The National Assembly will debate an amending government budget on Tuesday, including compensation for EDF for the forced closure of Fessenheim.
Since September, France has relighted four coal-fired power stations with high CO2 emissions to partially offset the shutdown at Fessenheim and the lack of wind for the wind turbines. Since September EDF has also had to occasionally import gas and coal-generated electricity from Germany at a very high cost.
Everyone loses"More here> www.en24news.com/2020/10/why-did-france-have-to-relight-its-coal-fired-power-stations.htmlWith luck this winter will see a lot of freezing anticyclonic weather over Europe - this may force virtue signaling politicians to think a little on practicalities. Unfortunately, UK has gone too far down the net-zero route to recover.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 14, 2020 15:36:08 GMT
This must be akin to what Mark Twain had in mind when he referred to something as "counting for wind only".
And that "Breaking Wind" would become a whole chapter in a rewrite of Disaster Economics.
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 14, 2020 15:54:44 GMT
This must be akin to what Mark Twain had in mind when he referred to something as "counting for wind only". And that "Breaking Wind" would become a whole chapter in a rewrite of Disaster Economics. Unfortunately, I believe it is deliberate. Too many dates are matching up the Great Reset removal of property rights 2030, the California and UK no more ICE cars electric only 2030, the Chinese building as many conventional coal powered power stations until 2030. This is not accidental but of course they may find that their best laid plans fail because the renewables cannot cope and there is political unrest - but that is why Trump had to go this year no matter what.
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 14, 2020 18:33:29 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 20, 2020 1:34:15 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 21, 2020 18:16:12 GMT
"Can the Northern Territory cope with a transition to 50 per cent renewables?
It was a minor weather event the Alice Springs power system should have been able to cope with — an afternoon cloud drifted by causing a drop in output from the Uterne solar farm and rooftop solar. Instead, the predictable event had been "unforeseen" by operators and a cascade of system and procedural failures caused a "system black" on October 13, according to a Northern Territory Utilities Commission investigation into the incident.
The outage affected 12,000 customers for up to 10 hours, including the hospital, vulnerable elderly people and those on life support, and remote communities such as Haasts Bluff almost 230 kilometres away.
The cloud itself was not the problem though, according to the NT Utilities Commission.
"The system should be able to cope with it, it didn't," Commissioner Lyndon Rowe told the ABC."www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-12/alice-springs-blackout/11781970
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 27, 2020 15:51:58 GMT
And it is getting colder
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 29, 2020 19:23:05 GMT
"Pie In The Sky…Germany’s Green Energy Scheme Will Fail From “Astronomical Cost”, Says Energy Expert
The German transformation to green energies will fail due to wind power
The goals of the German transition to green energies are simple in terms of energy policy:
1. phase-out nuclear energy by 2022, 2. phase-out coal by 2035, 3. phase-out oil and gas in parallel and completely by 2050.
The energy needed for electricity, heat, mobility and industrial processes in climate-neutral Germany will then have to be supplied by wind and solar energy and a few percent by hydropower and biomass. This is at least according to the plans of the German government, which are supported by all major social players.
Is this realistic?
Today, wind and photovoltaics supply slightly less than 30% of the 600 terawatt hours of electricity (1 terawatt hour Twh is 1 billion kilowatt hours Kwh). Today 126 Twh is supplied by wind energy and 46 Twh by photovoltaics. For 600 TWh, the same mix would need 439 Twh of wind and 161 Twh of solar. For the sake of simplicity, let us assume that this amount of electricity should be generated by the largest wind turbines, namely 5 megawatt turbines positioned 1000 m apart. With an annual efficiency of 25%, a turbine produces an average of 5 MW x 0.25 x 8760 (hours) = 10,950 Mwh = 0.01095 Twh. For 439 Twh we would need 40,000 such turbines. To accomplish this, an area of 200 km x 200 km (40,000 sq km) would be required."Much More here> notrickszone.com/2020/11/17/pie-in-the-sky-germanys-green-energy-scheme-will-fail-from-astronomical-cost-says-energy-expert/
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 30, 2020 19:49:37 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 1, 2020 19:22:17 GMT
"Germany’s Enviro-Dystopia: Wind Parks Devastating Rural Regions At Catastrophic Proportions
Here’s a preview of what to expect from the Green New Deal
Germany’s vision of a clean, environmentally friendly energy supply system, all to be discreetly nestled in an idyllic landscape, is in reality morphing into an environmental dystopia of catastrophic proportions.
German wind energy protest group Vernunftkraft.de posted a Youtube video showing how out of control wind energy has gotten in some regions of Germany.
What’s left? An entire region whose landscape is totally blighted by noisy industrial towers and is inhospitable to most life. Gone are the tranquility and idyllic beauty the area once enjoyed. The problem is that this region is poor, rural and so stands no chance against big wind project developers and the crony pols behind them, who just steamroll over any reservations or resistance local that residents may try to muster."More here: notrickszone.com/2020/12/01/germanys-enviro-dystopia-wind-parks-devastating-rural-regions-at-catastrophic-proportions/
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 3, 2020 19:13:55 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 8, 2020 12:54:18 GMT
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