On 30/01/13 10:14, harry wrote:
On Jan 29, 7:53 pm, "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:29:14 -0800 (PST), harry wrote:
There's a lot to be said for decentralised power generation using any
means.

Tell that to the bloke on dialysis when your solar panels cloud over
and he dies.

You ARE a half wit.
Decentralised power systems are many small generators linked together.
So if a few go out it's no big deal.

So how small are the clouds in your world? You get clouded out but yoru
semidetached neighbour isn't or the house across the street?

How far have you got to "transport" power to ensure that every where
stays powered?

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Cheers
Dave.

Clouds come in many sizes.

The advantage with local power generation is that power
is mostly used locally so the transmission grid can be smaller and
there are less transmission losses.
The power generators don't all have to be the same sort, in fact the
more diverse, the better..


Typical oversimplification from someone who can barely grasp the
essentials, let alone the detail.

Strange to relate, real engineers, as opposed to armchair mechanics,
have to do - and did when the CEGB planned the grid- balance te cost of
a lot of small power stations and less grid, with the cost of a few
larger power stations and more grid.

Ther are huge costs and energy inefficiencies associated with micro
generation.

Which why we all have to pay harry 50p a unit for his microgenerated
crap that no one wants or needs.

Instead of 5p for coal.

Every time the wind blows or the sun comes out, your electricity bill
goes up because of harry and the other freeloading troughing rent
seekers of the renewable industry.

And every time a wind turbine that averages 300KW breaks it takes as
many people driving as many cars to fix as it does to fix a run bearing
in a 300MW alternator in a conventional power station..

So only 1000 times as many people and cars and fuel involved in fixing
it. Oh, and they need fixing about 10 times as often, so make that
10,000 times more.

Green jobs have to be paid for.


Read the link on mypost and try to comprehend.



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