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Tech Allows Stable Integration of Wind In the Power Grid
diegocgteleline.es writes "One of the most frequently raised arguments against renewable power sources is that they can only supply a low percentage of the total power because their unpredictability can destabilize the grid. Spain seems to have disproved this assertion. In the last three days, the wind power generation records with respect to the total demand were beaten twice (in special conditions: a very windy weekend, at night): 45% on November 5 and almost 54% last night (Google translation; Spanish original). There was no instability. These milestones were accomplished with the help of a control center that processes meteorologic data from the whole country and predicts, with high certainty, the wind and solar power that will be generated, allowing a stable integration of all the renewable power. You can see a graphic of the record here."
Coal and oil are plentiful, cheap, and easy to use. Compare this to idiotic technologies like wind and solar that are hugely expensive, unreliable, and hurt the eyeline of the cities they are installed in. And people wonder why environmentalists are considered stupid.
Bah, we shouldn't be using wind for power at all. Solar has more benefits and fewer drawbacks.
Solar can be put in more places than wind, and doesn't fuck up local weather (and potentially global). We have to ask ourselves, where does the energy come from? For Solar it is directly from the sun. For wind, it is much more complex, and much less understood what happens when we pull energy out of that system. We have the Coriolis effect and indirect effects from the sun, and wind drives other things. I don't want deserts expanding because less wind isn't getting moisture to the grasses and trees on the edges of the current ones.
fuck you can get paid for anti AGW?? where's my cut.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....