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They do say that historic plant, nuclear and hydro, should continue.All well and good till the wind is too strong or not strong enough at night. Batteries don’t last forever.
we will always need some sort of non renewables but it needs to be flexible, to plug the gaps.
recall back in August when a trip blew on the North Sea wind farms? London shut down and total carnage resulted in rush hr. every battery was flat out but it wasn’t enough
Yes they are absorbing reading aren't they? I find I need to read them over and over in order to grasp all the ramifications.Oh goody, yet another report from RethinkX. I was starting to worry about them.
As they say in these reports over and over, if you don't stay ahead of the curve you are left behind and destroyed. Nokia and Blackberry anyone?Like most supposedly independent think tanks once you follow the money you can see the real motivation behind what they say.
RethinkX is funded by two tech investors. Investors who stand to make a lot of money out of renewables...
Anticyclones tend to produce sunny days. That's why it is a three pronged approach.It's a bit simplistic to compare just installed capacity for nuclear and wind, as wind has far lower capacity factor. For nuclear it's near 100%. For offshore wind it's between 40% and 50%.
1100MW of installed capacity on an offshore wind farm will never, ever, produce anywhere near that in real-world terms. With capacity factor taken into account it'll be somewhere between 440MW and 550MW. Then there's those odd days when it'll have an anticyclone weather system sitting over it when it'll produce 0MW...
I'm not quite sure you got the tone of my post.Yes they are absorbing reading aren't they? I find I need to read them over and over in order to grasp all the ramifications.
I wasn't expecting any positive reactions, that's too much to hope for.
I was intrigued to see that their examples had typical 40 hours of battery back up required, a lot less than one would think.
Their discussion of 'superpower' is interesting as well, what becomes possible as the price decreases. Using solar to build solar.
I watched the first episode of 'powering britain' yesterday. Offshore windfarm with 7Mw machines. The field amounted to about 1,100 Mw which is about the same as the last Magnox reactors I think. It is planned to be the first of 4.
Offshore is preferred because the capacity factor is higher than it is for onshore wind turbine. Another benefit of offshore over onshore is that you don’t have problems with the usual suspects trying to block PP. The downside of offshore being that the marine environment is extraordinarily hard on the kit.
Two websites to have a shufty at are energynumbers.info and renewableuk.com meaning you can then compare installed capacity to how much ‘leccy they’re actually generating.
But the queen does very nicely thankyouOffshore is preferred because nobody else has a cat in hells chance of competing. We are under the thumb of a bunch of self appointed rich people.
I don't like this at all .. offshore is more expensive than onshore and offshore means joe average is screwed.
But the queen does very nicely thankyou
The crown is taking a hood kicking from collapse of retail rents and therefore capital valuesAccording to these people the Crown is some weird company which puts profits into the treasury .. to me personally it's all the same. I don't get any and I bet most people in the UK don't get any either. But we have to pay for the system.
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Google says:
Queen Elizabeth owns 6.6 billion acres .. so if each acre was worth £1,000 that's £6.6 Trillion