On May 31, 7:27*pm, dpb wrote:
On 5/31/2011 6:13 PM, Han wrote:

*wrote :

Problem still is that wind doesn't blow 100% of time either here or in
Germany. *Baseload is still an issue.

Probably less of a problem in Germany than hereabouts.

There's got to be _something_ generating baseload...as much as the wind
blows here in SW KS, the capacity factor of wind here is only about 40%
of installed capacity. *Take that baseload away from the nukes where's
in coming from?

For the nearest of the large wind farms there's 80% correlation of
local wind speed to output over the 7 years' of operational data so far
so the limitation is real, not a decision to not operate.

I spent some time talking with the operators of the Annapolis Royal
Tidal Power station.
Their studies run into the same cyclical issues as does wind, with the
odd exception that they can count on the moon coming around. Really
interesting design.