Comment Re:Nowhere near 50% wind power in .dk (Score 1) 523
About 1): Nice initiative, seems promising
About 2): Bad Idea..... Now the turbines will spin up. And the increased rotational forces may severely damage the turbine, or blades.
A better long term solution is increasing national interconnection withing the European grid.
Middle term would be improvement of existing HV connections, building new HV connections.
A long term sollution would be to build and EHV DC backbone accross Europe, from spain to Russia and from Rome to Stockholm.
Why EHV: Extra High Voltage: this must be done to decrease transport losses
Why DC: this must be done to prevent oscilations (standing waves) and capacitive/inductive currents, which hinder real power transfer.
Another advantage of DC is that it doesn't couple frequency cycles of local nets, thereby allowing coupling between nets with differing frequency policies. (Ex: US: 60 Hz, Western Europe 50 Hz within a few percent, Russia, 50 Hz withing a few Hz.)
The existance of such a EHV DC backbone would allow for more efficient use of renewable energy, since most forms of renewable energy are neither constant nor predicable. Coupling with such a grid would allow for a statistically more constant level of renewable energy.
About 2): Bad Idea..... Now the turbines will spin up. And the increased rotational forces may severely damage the turbine, or blades.
A better long term solution is increasing national interconnection withing the European grid.
Middle term would be improvement of existing HV connections, building new HV connections.
A long term sollution would be to build and EHV DC backbone accross Europe, from spain to Russia and from Rome to Stockholm.
Why EHV: Extra High Voltage: this must be done to decrease transport losses
Why DC: this must be done to prevent oscilations (standing waves) and capacitive/inductive currents, which hinder real power transfer.
Another advantage of DC is that it doesn't couple frequency cycles of local nets, thereby allowing coupling between nets with differing frequency policies. (Ex: US: 60 Hz, Western Europe 50 Hz within a few percent, Russia, 50 Hz withing a few Hz.)
The existance of such a EHV DC backbone would allow for more efficient use of renewable energy, since most forms of renewable energy are neither constant nor predicable. Coupling with such a grid would allow for a statistically more constant level of renewable energy.
