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New gridwatch
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher writes you DO need to know it the OCGT goes to e.g. 0.040GW because that shows you that someone somewhere in national grid central has got sufficiently alarmed to ask for power from some of the crappiest and most expensive kit we have What's CCGT, please? presumably gas? Combined cycle gas turbine. A jet engine whose exhaust runs a steam boiler and steam turbine. Very efficient except when being asked to ramp up and down to keep the wind balanced. Then so inefficient that some people claim adding the windmills increases the carbon foot print. |
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