Not even Texas can be covered with a huge enough hurricane. Cloud wise perhaps, but certainly not wind wise (forcing shut down of wind mills), hurricanes are rather small, to cover Texas you would need like 3x3 hurricanes in a 3x3 grid.
... absorb extra baseload energy
There is no "extra base load".
Base load is "the base" of the load or feed into the grid energy. It never really changes, it is only slightly adapted over the course of the year, as it is a bit higher in winter.
If you have like 100 plants in your fleet, about 40% - 50% (depending on your country) provide "base load", they run 24h/365d at roughly 90% capacity. Thy never change that, so there is never "extra base load" or "lack of base load".
Can't be so hard to grasp what the word "base" means.
factories near the baseload generation, keep the baseload on all the time,
Base load is on all the time, running the plants around 90% of capacity, hence the name "base load"
That time does not exist
"Base load" is the amount of energy you _always_ feed into the grid, hence it's name.
However your idea would be suitable for "using" excess wind or solar energy.
There are plenty of countries where prostitution is legal.
Nevertheless the wemon don't become rich.
However most of the surrounding criminal szene is dried out.
Foresomeone who has so many opinions, you know quite few.
E.g. birthbed infections strictly speaking don't come from 'not washing hands'. They where prone in the time where doctors experimented/cut open corpses (in various degrees of rotting, with various invections due to which said corpses had died) . The doctors jumped right from the lab to the birth giving woman, and because of dead corpse poison etc. the women often died. Ofc, that would have been aboided with proper desinfections.
However if a random stranger with unwashed hands helps a pregnant woman to give birth, the risk of an infection is close to zero.
For millennia women gave birth without nasty high childbed deaths.
The rest of your post is equally wrong
Regarding risk, you are mixing up risk with likelihood
Most of diabetes are nutrition problems and not genetic.
By combining eggs with sperm, the defect rate actually is extremely low, unless one of them _already_ has a defect.
How many variations of cancer do we have?
And you want to heal/prevent all of them with "gene editing"?
How retarded are you that you believe we are so retarded to believe you that?
Just nitpicking, but we did not talk about morality but about the ethics.
And obviously mindless editing and fixing a desease are two different things
I guess you SF collection is then pretty smal
So shaving and a haircut is not enough? Pity!
One thing has not much to do with the other.
Ground water is not very deep below the surface, fracking is done in far deeper depths.
So if AFTER fracking there is oil in the groundwater, it obviously comes from the fracking. Otherwise it had beed there before already
Erm, so you define efficiency by the percentage of gas that is burned? Or what is your breathing argument supposed to mean?
Stoves and other means to heat water are far far far away from you proclaimed efficiency.
Far over 50% of the heat is just wasted through the exhaust, unless you have high efficient heating systems where you might approach 75%-80%, I really doubt americans have that.
Another way to increase efficiency is to use catalytic burning, similar to fuel cells but focused on creating heat instead of electric power.
how you could have read the headline and made that statement.
Because neither you nor other
It is my contention that the focus on large production number for solar is hiding the real issue with integrating solar into the grid which is storage. Is solar useless? No. Does high solar production need storage to shift supply to demand? Yes.
Define large. 50% of peak? No, no storage _needed_. 75% of peak? Again: now storage might be usefull if you want to invest into it, needed: No.
The point finally is: do you want to shift surplus supply to other demanding times, if you say "yes, you want that", then you need storage. But again: that has nothing to do with the fundamentals of the grid and how it works. For a grid to work you don't need significant more storage than any 'grid in good shape' already has.
It is also for shifting supply to demand. When supply is higher than demand the excess electricity is stored by pumping water. When demand is higher than supply the water is run through the turbines to meet the demand.
Exactly that is, what is called 'grid balancing', or do you think you balance only in one direction?
As soon as wind/solar ramps up, you 'balance' with pumped storage the fine grain 'surplus' and ramp down conventionals for the big impact.
The last part of your post makes no sense to me. Obviously germany only had at very special days so far a close to 80% renewable production. Do you finally agree that you only have use for significant amount of storage when un dispatchable production reaches (or exceeds) the 80% to 100% range, or not?
The original law was stupid, IMHO, as the rest of the world shows. No where where I'm aware about a similar laws exist(ed).
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