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Posted on 05/21/2012 2:51:27 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obviously, the writer doesn’t understand Reality:
1) When I sleep, everything stops
2) When I die, everyone will disappear
Keep me alive, folks — your lives depend on it...
:)
Wonder what the facts are in the USA?
Ancient Bob ( 95 yoa ) says his time is about over....no more power plants are needed..(Friend of mine )
bump!
“California” is here:
http://www.caiso.com/Pages/TodaysOutlook.aspx#SupplyandDemand
21 GW minimum overnight.
Even if we could afford it, and we cannot, it’d still be impossible.
Hey, I saw a story about you on The Twilight Zone. If I remember correctly, you were in charge of keeping and old intricate clock running because if it ever stopped............
Heh. I hate to admit it, but back in my younger days, I flirted with new age philosophy for a while. One of its tenets (if you can call it that) is that reality "on the physical plain" is nothing but a psychic agreement amongst us spirits. When we sleep, there's really nothing there.
Given the left, you might be on to something. They're not worried because they believe there's really nothing there (or because they have a trust fund.)
>>Hey, I saw a story about you on The Twilight Zone. If I remember correctly, you were in charge of keeping and old intricate clock running because if it ever stopped............<<
I was thinking more about Malcolm McDowell in “Night Visions” (lol)
Peak usage can easily go over 7500 watts.
That's a dynamic range of 300. A non-trivial engineering task to be able to go off grid.
“Wonder what the facts are in the USA?”
I’m gonna guess, exactly the same.
The sun is no brighter in the USA, nor the wind any stronger. The US has no superior way to efficiently store electricity for nightly use. Our daily usage pattern mimics the Australian one.
?????
in it’s sleep = in it is sleep
I saw a letter in the WSJ by Iowa’s former guv Tom Wetsack who was claiming Iowa now draws 20 percent of its power from wind...
That sounds preposterous to me even if there is nothing going on there but wind blowin’ and corn growin’...
Good analysis of how solar and wind simply cannot compete with nuclear or fossil fuel power generation.
Oh.
Just did some searching.
From a hyperventilating website called hispanicbusiness.com (good lord what do they have to do with wind):
“Iowa was also among the leaders in wind energy jobs, with an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 jobs — just ahead of Texas and Illinois.
“The industry group continued to urge Congress to extend the Production Tax Credit, a renewable energy tax incentive scheduled to expire in 2012. IT SAID WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS DROPPED BETWEEN 73 AND 93 PERCENT IN PAST YEARS FOLLOWING EXPIRATION, LEADING TO MAJOR JOB LOSSES IN THE INDUSTRY.”
Subsidize anything enough and you will get the numbers to rise. Including illegal immigration.
WF Buckley's line was "illegitimacy and cheese."
I thought the charts were low enough level (7th grade ) that it could be useful to show around.
Off course, as usual Ernie, you did a good job.
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