[mdlug] Router - now power.

[Allen Majorovic]

--- On Fri, 11/6/09, Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com> wrote:

  This is why you don't just build a Wind power only installation. You mix
it with Solar and as methods to more efficiently store the energy become
available, you build more renewable sources of generation to go above and
beyond the peak so that the energy can be stored for later, when less is
produced by wind or solar.

  -Rob

Except that mixing a periodic energy source like solar and an inherently unreliable energy sources like wind with a reliable source like nuclear means that you need base load capacity that would be very nearly, if not actually, the same capacity as you'd need without either wind or solar. Otherwise, when the sun goes down or when the wind doesn't blow you've got a power shortage.

If you have to have adequate base load capacity to make up for the shortcomings of solar and wind then what's the case for solar and wind? If the base load capacity's nuclear you can't even trot out pollution or carbon release as a negative.

Allen