[mdlug] Router - now power.

[Peter Bart]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:38:31 -0800 (PST)
Allen Majorovic <amajorov at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- 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.

	Which would take a major shift for us to deal with. We're used
	to having 100% of capacity available all the time, even when we
	don't need it.

> 
> 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
> 
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