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Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 256

Well, the problem with analogies is: they break sooner or later.

No one ever will be able to put more power into a cable than it can transport. The heating and breaking is a no issue. So much power you simply can not produce.

What you mean with "substation" is beyond me, perhaps a transformer?

Bottom line you can not put more power into the grid than you consume ... that is a no brainer if you know how grids work.

So your analogies make no sense as your argumentation is wrong on fundamental principles.

Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 256

Wet cloths left for hours equals mold.
No it does not.

Peak pricing helps a bit but is not a complete solution
A solution to what?

You actually don't know what you are talking about. Bringing peak and off peak into your talks does not help your point of view.

And they sit wet in the washer until you put them in the drier. No one in his sane mind uses a drier anyway. No idea why you base your arguments around that.
And: there exist washing machine / drier combinations. If you need a drier so desperately why don't you by a combo?

Comment Re:"CALL TO ARMS" (Score 0) 256

Modern wind turbines are at about 40-50% capacity factor.
Already then, someone made a mistake setting up the plant at that spot.

You should not place a wind plant at a place where you have less than 4000 hours per year maximum/rated yield. If you do that right you are automatically above 50% CF.

A perfect placed ... usually off shore ... wind turbine has a CF of 200% - 400%

Comment Re:Tornados? (Score 1) 256

Exactly, it can't happen.

If there is a wind strong enough to destroy a wind turbine, you have far worse problems than worrying about the blades/turbine.

E.g. you lose all over land transmission lines, regardless of power plant technology connected to it.

Your roads, houses etc. will be gone too. Actually I doubt you have any survivours in such an event in the area covered by such a storm.

Comment Re:Energy underlies all economic activity (Score 1) 256

Or to put it another way, suppose a solar panel will produce the energy equivalent of 4x it's energy investment over 20 years (which is about right with today's technology).
No it is not right.
a) Solar panels repay their energy production "bill" after 6 month
b) Solar panels degrade over time, so that after 30 years they produce only 75% of what they did before.
So in 30 years they produce like 120 times the mount of energy they costed to produce. And they easy last a century or longer, depending on the "installation" not on the "panel".

From a mathematical perspective, EROEI appears to makes no sense.
Either because your math is wrong, or your numbers are wrong.
No idea why people come up with the brain dead idea that renewables don't pay off energy wise.
Germany produces about 30% of its energy with renewables ... where did the energy come from to build those "non EROEI working" plants?

Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 256

Little of this will be re-scheduled based on the cost of electricity. Are you really going to get up at 3AM to do laundry?
The washing machine does that automatically for you.
If you look at those two graphs you will see that price has little or no effect on demand.
You are interpreting it wrong. If there was no peak price, the peak would be even higher.

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