Solar is 'peak shaving', the plants to serve nighttime load already exist. You just can't tear them down yet.
All peaker plants only run a few hours/day. That's their nature. The most expensive, oldest peaker in your region likely has a worse capacity factor than solar. Solar is only the worst 'category', individual plants will run lower capacity factors. There are individual plants that run at 0% (granting not 0.0000000%) capacity factor most years. They make all their money on capacity payments. Some are priced higher than load curtailment (paying industrial users to shutdown when things are very critical).
Every transmission/control area is required to maintain enough standby power to cover the biggest single plant/transmission line going down. That is also just the nature of the grid. Nothing is 100% reliable, utilities are required to accept that fact and spin for their nuke, biggest thermal plant or highest power transmission line falling over.
The long term situation for the grid is challenging. Eventually solar might become a difficulty, once most areas load - solar becomes night peaking. But not even close yet. Negative reactances of switching power supplies is a more immediate issue. Old school, you just let the grid brown-out and power use drops, but with switchers when you drop V, current goes up. When that becomes dominant the grid has a huge fucking problem.
Are you implying that SWING worked before Android?
Back when MS was forced to ship a copy of Sun Java, I thought they should retaliate by also shipping a copy of SWING and using it to render Sun's logo at startup.
Oracle would figure out a 'reasonable' core count for the human brain and charge license fees based on that number times the (number of people your address book can hold + 1).
Then after a year, they would 'realize' they had 'made a mistake' and triple that core count.
Woe to the user that exceeded their max address book size without informing and paying Oracle, and don't forget to pay double or triple for any schizo people you know.
AKA dispatch center, control center, grid operations center, Independent System Operator (ISO) regional control center.
I spent a decade+ writing software that collected real time system data and fired off many simulations in the 1 day to 1 week forecast range. Allowed the system operator or power trader to examine various operational scenarios. That job took me around the world a few times.
They're thick some days. I've seen them pulling over every 10th car. There was a big soccer game and the drunks were out. It takes very little to be 'drunk' by German road standards, any measurable ethanol IIRC.
Germans are a bunch of goddamn law abiders. A speeding ticket is cheap by American standards and can't affect your insurance rate, but Germans are afraid of being shamed.
I'm only a German citizen on a technicality. Rules are suggestions.
Solar is very schedulable. Wind less so, but it's not like weather forecasts don't exist. Already used in load forecasting.
You do need plants after dark, but it's not like that's not known.
But 'good news', other than northern climates in winter, demand is typically highest at noon/late afternoon (the classic double peak). They've got plants sitting there ready to run when the sun goes down. You don't have to build them, just staff and fuel them. It does mean you can't tear them down and is a real cost.
I bet I've spent more hours on control floors than you.
CTs can go from cold to power fast, but it costs them _many_ hours of lifetime. Hence utilities _don't_do_it_. They warm them up first, it's not like rapid ramp periods are surprises to them
Sure you do, you just define 'spinning reserve' as starting in under 2-5 minutes. Spinning, ready etc nomenclature changes world wide, even regionally (in the details) in the USA.
You have to be careful terms are explicitly defined when dealing with any sort of fuzzy foreigners.
Also note: Gas turbines do not like to spin up fast and cold. Pick one, they can do it, but it cuts a bunch off their lives.
What CTs mostly do is ramp, then come back down as the slower cheaper plants ramp. Some/many stay on during the 'rampy' times of day. Number based on expected max instantaneous load ramp.
You should be actively attempting to escape (any company run by former AT&T execs, not just the one with the name).
The phenomenon is a corollary of the peter principle, the name of which escapes me. 'When a person has reached their level of incompetence, at some level they know it. So they proceed to surround themselves with even _more_ incompetent people, so they can blend in." At AT&T the king idiot is the Chairman of the Board, he hires other idiots as CEO, repeat down the chain. Old 'Ma Bell' started it, but it persists for generations in telecoms. The young members of idiot constellations weren't even born when Ma Bell got broken up.
Nobody (except the Chinese the Israelis and Ruskys and they ain't telling) know what was on the server. She deleted 30k emails before turning over the printouts of the remaining ones.
She was not retarded. She is Machiavellian. This was done to hide her actions, not by accident or out of stupidity.
The words you are looking for are 'top secret'.
I'll grant you that even if prosecuted, it's still the better outcome for Clinton, vs people seeing what was on the server.
Reminder the Obama admin interfered with the investigation, had them remove the 'gross negligence' language. Just gave her a pass. Is that OK? Will it be OK for the 'other side'?
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Just to add: Your basic mistake is thinking any plant can 'guarantee a given power output'.
That's just wrong. They _have_ (FERC rules in the USA) to spin for their biggest single power source, as _none_ are guaranteed.
As a practical matter, they _all_ violate spinning/ready reserve rules a few hours/year BTW. But engineers are practical people, not mathematicians.
Solar is 'peak shaving', the plants to serve nighttime load already exist. You just can't tear them down yet.
All peaker plants only run a few hours/day. That's their nature. The most expensive, oldest peaker in your region likely has a worse capacity factor than solar. Solar is only the worst 'category', individual plants will run lower capacity factors. There are individual plants that run at 0% (granting not 0.0000000%) capacity factor most years. They make all their money on capacity payments. Some are priced higher than load curtailment (paying industrial users to shutdown when things are very critical).
Every transmission/control area is required to maintain enough standby power to cover the biggest single plant/transmission line going down. That is also just the nature of the grid. Nothing is 100% reliable, utilities are required to accept that fact and spin for their nuke, biggest thermal plant or highest power transmission line falling over.
The long term situation for the grid is challenging. Eventually solar might become a difficulty, once most areas load - solar becomes night peaking. But not even close yet. Negative reactances of switching power supplies is a more immediate issue. Old school, you just let the grid brown-out and power use drops, but with switchers when you drop V, current goes up. When that becomes dominant the grid has a huge fucking problem.
I know it was a drinking game.
But the standard derp is that is was a sex position, they even added it to the urban dictionary as such.
The most important part of a car (the tires) are MUCH better. The physics haven't changed, but the Engineering has.
Oracle's database is good, not worth the money, but a good solid product.
Everything else they make/sell is _useless_ shit that makes SAP look good.
Are you implying that SWING worked before Android?
Back when MS was forced to ship a copy of Sun Java, I thought they should retaliate by also shipping a copy of SWING and using it to render Sun's logo at startup.
Do you realize how parallel a human brain is?
Oracle would figure out a 'reasonable' core count for the human brain and charge license fees based on that number times the (number of people your address book can hold + 1).
Then after a year, they would 'realize' they had 'made a mistake' and triple that core count.
Woe to the user that exceeded their max address book size without informing and paying Oracle, and don't forget to pay double or triple for any schizo people you know.
What we need is the shakespearean punishment.
First we kill ALL the lawyers.
Before the internet, slang was regional.
First it was 'Butt fuck', then 'Boofu' (as in 'BooFu buddy') then 'Boofed'. If 'Boofing' came with getting wasted, you were gay and in denial.
15 year old boys used lots of terms they barely understood. In any case the charges against Cavenaugh where not credible on their face.
The GP troll needs to remember his derp. 'Devil's Triangle' was supposed to be sex position.
Alumnus could easily be a group of boys who dated a girl and got _nothing_. Shared, notorious _wasted_effort_.
AKA dispatch center, control center, grid operations center, Independent System Operator (ISO) regional control center.
I spent a decade+ writing software that collected real time system data and fired off many simulations in the 1 day to 1 week forecast range. Allowed the system operator or power trader to examine various operational scenarios. That job took me around the world a few times.
I've been repeatedly told by /. commies that the Laffer curve does not exist. You must be wrong.
Come to Boston. All lanes full of massholes driving like a Mad Max villain.
Finnish drivers are the 'gold standard'. For drunken 'think they are world rally cup' drivers.
They're thick some days. I've seen them pulling over every 10th car. There was a big soccer game and the drunks were out. It takes very little to be 'drunk' by German road standards, any measurable ethanol IIRC.
Germans are a bunch of goddamn law abiders. A speeding ticket is cheap by American standards and can't affect your insurance rate, but Germans are afraid of being shamed.
I'm only a German citizen on a technicality. Rules are suggestions.
Most stealerships have, at most, one or two competent techs. The rest are cheap (to them).
Solar is very schedulable. Wind less so, but it's not like weather forecasts don't exist. Already used in load forecasting.
You do need plants after dark, but it's not like that's not known.
But 'good news', other than northern climates in winter, demand is typically highest at noon/late afternoon (the classic double peak). They've got plants sitting there ready to run when the sun goes down. You don't have to build them, just staff and fuel them. It does mean you can't tear them down and is a real cost.
I bet I've spent more hours on control floors than you.
CTs can go from cold to power fast, but it costs them _many_ hours of lifetime. Hence utilities _don't_do_it_. They warm them up first, it's not like rapid ramp periods are surprises to them
30 years...at various 'ma bell' children...that's horrific. Good luck dude.
Sure you do, you just define 'spinning reserve' as starting in under 2-5 minutes. Spinning, ready etc nomenclature changes world wide, even regionally (in the details) in the USA.
You have to be careful terms are explicitly defined when dealing with any sort of fuzzy foreigners.
Also note: Gas turbines do not like to spin up fast and cold. Pick one, they can do it, but it cuts a bunch off their lives.
What CTs mostly do is ramp, then come back down as the slower cheaper plants ramp. Some/many stay on during the 'rampy' times of day. Number based on expected max instantaneous load ramp.
Why would you ever take a car to a dealership for non-warranty service?
Could you run a car on a wood style gasifier using CVS receipts? Bet I could.
Getting that street legal in CA? I'd have to start with something smog exempt. All those have 'better uses'.
You took the job.
What AT&T is, is not a secret.
You should be actively attempting to escape (any company run by former AT&T execs, not just the one with the name).
The phenomenon is a corollary of the peter principle, the name of which escapes me. 'When a person has reached their level of incompetence, at some level they know it. So they proceed to surround themselves with even _more_ incompetent people, so they can blend in." At AT&T the king idiot is the Chairman of the Board, he hires other idiots as CEO, repeat down the chain. Old 'Ma Bell' started it, but it persists for generations in telecoms. The young members of idiot constellations weren't even born when Ma Bell got broken up.
Nobody (except the Chinese the Israelis and Ruskys and they ain't telling) know what was on the server. She deleted 30k emails before turning over the printouts of the remaining ones.
https://www.chicagotribune.com...
They covered for her, she's still due a real investigation, as is the coverup. Who knows where that leads.
She was not retarded. She is Machiavellian. This was done to hide her actions, not by accident or out of stupidity.
The words you are looking for are 'top secret'.
I'll grant you that even if prosecuted, it's still the better outcome for Clinton, vs people seeing what was on the server.
Reminder the Obama admin interfered with the investigation, had them remove the 'gross negligence' language. Just gave her a pass. Is that OK? Will it be OK for the 'other side'?
No 'Profit' step.