Wind farms, a benefit for all.

[Old Rocks]

Wind is almost as inefficient as solar:

What a dumb ass post. OK, by rated best output, wind and solar are not that efficient. Yet, in cost per watt, they beat all but hydropower, which is also a renewable.
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Levelized Cost of Energy and of Storage 2020

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Yes but wind and solar break down OFTEN-----

LOL You are telling lies again. First, with solar, there is almost nothing to break down. And wind turbines are less complex, hence mechanically more reliable, than coal or gas fired plants. Another little fact that you knownothings prefer to ignore, if you take the total area that a nuke plant takes up, and put down solar panels, it will generate more electricity than the nuke plant, and generate no dangerous by products, as nukes do.

 

[Old Rocks]

Ask the people of Texas how they feel about renewables these days?

Blackouts are ghey

It was the gas fired plants and nukes that were the primary problems in February. And if they had a lot more solar, they would be generating juice like crazy right now. And if they did not have the ******* stupid GOP running things, they would not have had about 700 people die from the failures of the GOP politicians to regulate their grid. Minnesota and the Dakotas were far colder and did not experience those problems.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

if you take the total area that a nuke plant takes up, and put down solar panels, it will generate more electricity than the nuke plant

Wow, that's some bad math you're using.

 

[jc456]

So you think this is so much prettier?

certainly. it's all natural.

 

[jc456]

Wind and solar can supply all the energy we need and then some.

that is really quite some stupid you just posted.

 

[jc456]

Americans owns a big chunk too.

Timeline: Chinese ownership in Canada’s oil patch

CNOOC’s takeover of Nexen, approved today, marks another step by China into Canada’s oil patch

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you didn't provide a link to show this, why?
China owns 50% of Canadian Tarsands production.

 

[Oddball]

They're especially beneficial to the Uighur slave laborers in CCP concentration camps, who need a break from being forced to make NBA swag.

 

[theHawk]

, if you take the total area that a nuke plant takes up, and put down solar panels, it will generate more electricity than the nuke plant

What a bunch of horse shit. It would take 100 square kilometers to make 2000 MW with solar panels. PLUS they can’t produce jack shit at night or when cloudy.

 

[Old Rocks]

, if you take the total area that a nuke plant takes up, and put down solar panels, it will generate more electricity than the nuke plant

What a bunch of horse shit. It would take 100 square kilometers to make 2000 MW with solar panels. PLUS they can’t produce jack shit at night or when cloudy.

100 km^2 of solar would produce about 5 GW of electricity. Ever hear of the many methods of grid scale storage?

"US electricity consumption is about 425 GW on average
The EIA give a figure of 3,725,101 thousand Megawatt Hours of total electricity sales in 2013, i.e. 3725 TWh in a year. That’s equivalent to 425 GW.

The area shown is 10,000 km2 in NW Texas
Looking at the map presented by Elon Musk, and comparing it with a scale map of the US, leads me to an estimate that the square, in North-West Texas, is about 100km along the side, and thus has a total surface area of 100km x 100km, i.e. 10,000 km2

Average PV yield in NW Texas is about 21%
The USA National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) provides an online calculator for PV yields, called PVWatts. I looked at the data for location TMY2 Amarillo, TX, which seems close to the area in question. A 1 kW system would generate 1,838 kWh per year (on a 10o slope facing south), which is equivalent to 210W; that gives a ratio of generated power to capacity of 21%.

The highest efficiency we currently get from solar modules is about 24%
Table 2 of Green et al’s Solar cell efficiency tables (Version 45) gives the best PV module as being 24% efficient. And that translates to installed capacity of 0.24 GW/km2, given the standard measure of 1 full sun being equal to 1 kW/m2.

Calculation
10,000 km2 x 0.24 GW/km2 x 21% = 500 GW
Which is more than current US electricity consumption of 425 GW.

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[badger2]

Stupid Homo sapiens. As if petroleum-addiction flatulence didn’t kill Nature, too.

 

[badger2]

The URL is too ridiculous to transcribe, so look it up yourself: ‘Congress Extends Solar Incentive.’

 

[badger2]

Asshole #108 should be permanently boycotted for stupidity. That’s what batteries are for. Duh

 

[jc456]

Asshole #108 should be permanently boycotted for stupidity. That’s what batteries are for. Duh

What are their amp hours under load?

 

[Old Rocks]

Asshole #108 should be permanently boycotted for stupidity. That’s what batteries are for. Duh

Not just batteries. Liquid air, gravity, pumped hydro, ect.

 

[Old Rocks]

Asshole #108 should be permanently boycotted for stupidity. That’s what batteries are for. Duh

What are their amp hours under load?

I imagine that a 150 MW/hr battery has a pretty big amp hour rating under load. And then there are the homes that are in VPP's. They are already building a 250 MW one in South Australia.

 

[jc456]

Asshole #108 should be permanently boycotted for stupidity. That’s what batteries are for. Duh

What are their amp hours under load?

I imagine that a 150 MW/hr battery has a pretty big amp hour rating under load. And then there are the homes that are in VPP's. They are already building a 250 MW one in South Australia.

How many homes?

 

[theHawk]

, if you take the total area that a nuke plant takes up, and put down solar panels, it will generate more electricity than the nuke plant

What a bunch of horse shit. It would take 100 square kilometers to make 2000 MW with solar panels. PLUS they can’t produce jack shit at night or when cloudy.

100 km^2 of solar would produce about 5 GW of electricity. Ever hear of the many methods of grid scale storage?

"US electricity consumption is about 425 GW on average
The EIA give a figure of 3,725,101 thousand Megawatt Hours of total electricity sales in 2013, i.e. 3725 TWh in a year. That’s equivalent to 425 GW.

The area shown is 10,000 km2 in NW Texas
Looking at the map presented by Elon Musk, and comparing it with a scale map of the US, leads me to an estimate that the square, in North-West Texas, is about 100km along the side, and thus has a total surface area of 100km x 100km, i.e. 10,000 km2

Average PV yield in NW Texas is about 21%
The USA National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) provides an online calculator for PV yields, called PVWatts. I looked at the data for location TMY2 Amarillo, TX, which seems close to the area in question. A 1 kW system would generate 1,838 kWh per year (on a 10o slope facing south), which is equivalent to 210W; that gives a ratio of generated power to capacity of 21%.

The highest efficiency we currently get from solar modules is about 24%
Table 2 of Green et al’s Solar cell efficiency tables (Version 45) gives the best PV module as being 24% efficient. And that translates to installed capacity of 0.24 GW/km2, given the standard measure of 1 full sun being equal to 1 kW/m2.

Calculation
10,000 km2 x 0.24 GW/km2 x 21% = 500 GW
Which is more than current US electricity consumption of 425 GW.

Fact checking Elon Musk’s Blue Square: How much solar to power the US? | UCL UCL Energy Institute Blog

UCL Homepage

blogs.ucl.ac.uk

If that was true then they would be doing it already.
You claimed the area of a nuclear plant could produced more power than a nuclear plant, you lied.

 

[HenryBHough]

The really great part about the bird-killers is that their steel is welcomed by China for recycling when they are torn down. Torn down? Why?

In many places because the companies that made them are out of business and there are no repair parts available.

 

[danielpalos]

I make a motion that the State of California should have the finest grid in the Union for our economy.

 

[Calypso Jones]