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Post by David B. Benson on Apr 11, 2019 11:51:15 GMT 9.5
Extreme Weather Shows Weak Spots of Wind, Solar Energy Irina Slav 2019 Apr 10 Oilprice.com
points out that cold and snow impede generation but then fails by suggesting that "storage" will save the day.
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Post by engineerpoet on Apr 11, 2019 21:48:15 GMT 9.5
Of course storage will save the day. The energy stored in actinides is wonderfully dense; the high-burnup core configuration proposed for the S-PRISM only replaces about 1/8 of the fuel per year.
Oh, they mean storage for RUINABLES! Low-energy chemicals or gravity, take your pick. Pumped hydro is so weak, the entire volume of Lake Erie wouldn't suffice to buffer the USA's electric demand. These people are innumerate and/or delusional.
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Post by David B. Benson on May 21, 2019 18:34:06 GMT 9.5
Industry opinion: Flying a kite --- the 100 per cent renewables myth Peter Hughes 2019 May 21 Power Engineering International
Black & Veatch weighs in with a wordy speech transcript based on the examples in Britain.
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Post by David B. Benson on May 21, 2019 18:34:33 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on May 29, 2019 17:22:21 GMT 9.5
Winter could pose solar farm 'ramping' snag for power grid Blaine Friedlander 2019 May 29 Phys.org
Upstate New York and the duck curve transplanted there.
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Post by David B. Benson on May 29, 2019 18:54:48 GMT 9.5
Solar power --- largest study to date discovers 25 percent power loss across UK 2018 Nov 09 Phys.org
Hot days cause generation to suffer.
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Post by David B. Benson on Jul 10, 2019 15:43:18 GMT 9.5
Study shows pollution dramatically reducing solar power generation in China Bob Yrka 2019 Jul 09 Phys.org
The study finds that the attempts to correct this have minor effect, to date
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Post by engineerpoet on Jul 10, 2019 22:25:28 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Jul 18, 2019 19:01:12 GMT 9.5
What's Behind The Drop In Renewable Spending? Irina Slav 2019 Jul 16 Oilprice.com
It seems that the cut in subsidies significantly impacted the new construction so far in 2019.
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Post by engineerpoet on Jul 19, 2019 0:49:39 GMT 9.5
I've long been saying that "renewables" would go nowhere without subsidies and/or mandates.
A sufficient carbon tax would bring on the long-delayed transition to nuclear that was forecast in the 1960's.
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Post by Roger Clifton on Jul 20, 2019 11:17:40 GMT 9.5
Renewables can go nowhere without gas, Big Gas. It infills with power when renewables cannot. However they do have a public voice strong enough to protect their monster ally from a carbon tax.
Evangelizing tracts put out by the renewables faithful carefully avoid using the words "and gas". Inserting the phrase where gas is used in reality, we read: a grid can be wholly powered by a wind and gas, variations can be wholly backed up by batteries and gas, and so on. In particular, they declare the enemy of the greenhouse to be coal but avoid saying "coal and gas". At the end of each tract we are led to believe that installing 100% renewables and gas will save the greenhouse by completely eliminating the use of coal and gas. That's a contradiction, blatant to all but the silliest of us.
It is quite likely that the faithful will be urged that because a surely-tolerable usage of gas is essential to the rescue of the greenhouse, they must not tolerate a carbon tax applying to anything that includes the unspeakable phrase, and gas. But are they silly enough to be persuaded?
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Post by David B. Benson on Jul 24, 2019 14:00:35 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Sept 7, 2019 14:25:52 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Sept 14, 2019 3:27:37 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Sept 20, 2019 13:23:26 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Sept 23, 2019 5:46:52 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Oct 5, 2019 8:53:45 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Oct 20, 2019 16:20:46 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Oct 30, 2019 14:35:48 GMT 9.5
Where to install renewable energy in US to achieve greatest benefits 2019 Oct 29 Phys.org m.techxplore.com/news/2019-10-renewable-energy-greatest-benefits.htmlYes, eliminating coal burning has great health benefits. But the so-called renewables aren't being installed in the upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions for a reason. These locations would do better to have more nuclear power plants instead. Harvard should know better; tch, tch.
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Post by David B. Benson on Feb 22, 2020 20:02:45 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Feb 26, 2020 14:19:12 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Mar 3, 2020 16:52:45 GMT 9.5
Where's the Wind When You Need It? Rod Adams 2014 Jan 22 Atomic Insights atomicinsights.com/wheres-wind-need/An example of no wind in the Pacific Northwest for 2 weeks. Not illustrated but here in the Pacific Northwest there are sometimes 6 week intervals with low or sporadic winds. h/t: engineerpoet
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Post by David B. Benson on Mar 3, 2020 17:02:42 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Mar 7, 2020 22:57:57 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Mar 8, 2020 6:30:28 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Mar 21, 2020 3:56:51 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on Mar 26, 2020 7:46:51 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on May 1, 2020 9:12:19 GMT 9.5
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Post by David B. Benson on May 2, 2020 15:12:32 GMT 9.5
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