On 26/04/14 11:22, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
harryagain wrote:
The energy to power renewables is free, always will be and is truely
endless.
The future cost will not rise (it is falling), unlike fossil fuels and
nuclear power.
No-one can take it away from us.

As regards wind, God does frequently. Same with the sun. The only reliable
'free' energy would be the tide.

That isn't reliable, just predictable.

Think of fossil/nuclear as employees who always come in on time except
when sick.

Wind is an employee who comes in and works as long as they feel like it
totally randomly needing a huge office with lots of cables to be
permanently available for when they do.

Solar is a rather useless employee who comes in at 9 and goes home at 5
and leaves a huge office empty all night every night, and doesn't work
hard at all in winter.

Tidal is someone who works a shift twice a day, doesn't produce a lot
and still takes up a huge office.

None of the above are reliable in the sense that you can call em up at 4
a.m on a cold February morning and say 'need you in right now'.

You still need your fossil zero hours contractors ready to fill any gaps
at very high expense, because they ARE zero hours contractors and have
to make a living out of emergencies and short working.

Predictability is not reliability. A car that predictably fails to
start on cold mornings is predictable, but its not reliable.

A stopped watch is predictably correct twice a day, but its not reliable.


You have somehow twisted the meaning of reliable to mean 'something you
can rely on to let you down'.



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