Wind and Solar produced about 35% in 2016 in Germany, 2% are water and the rest is biomass.
And what is wrong with burning biomass is beyond me. It is climate neutral. Either it rots or you ferment/burn it.
and they are already running into limits of what the grid can handle without significantly larger investments in transmission systems No we are not. That is fear mongering. We would in future if we would not upgrade the grid, but we do upgrade the grid, so what exactly is your point?
Germany is a net exporter of electricity. And most of the time it is a next exporter to France, too.
Germany shows that a hard turn towards renewables is not effective or realistic. Germany has right no about 40% of its energy produced by renewables, I think the truth is always realistic.
Only german Neanderthals:D (Considering that Neanderthal is a German place) And, unfortunately my land lord replaced my perfect (I liked them!) gas ovens in every living room with a so called "Therme" and radiators. The Therme needs electric power to pump the hot water around.
Cooling only costs energy while cooling it down from +20 to - 100 degrees. Maintaining the -100 is super simple: insulation. We are not talking about an AC here, where constantly heat is pumped into the house and you have a bad bad bad insulated house and try to cool it down. Keeping a superconductor at temperature basically costs nothing.
Actually high temperature super conductors are around -85 degrees, not -140.... or are you arguing about science and using Fahrenheit instead of Celsius/Kelvin?
Blackouts mean that your power grid has failed. The last black out was about ten years ago in a winter when "strange" weather caused power line poles to ice over and collapse. So the physical connection to the grid was lost for a few towns.
There are no other "black outs"... why should there? Just because we now have a lot of renewables does not mean the old power plants no longer exist. And more important, for you dumb ass: we are interconnected in the largest power grid of the world, spanning 25,000 miles from east to west.
We never will ever have a power failure due to a grid problem unless the failing part is physically disconnected from the grid.
So, you dumb ass, why do you live in a galaxy far far away, and are so super smart smart smart and thing you are smarter than the people who are actually living in the country you complain about? Working on your PhD in Power Distribution? Then please don't invite me to your thesis defense... it will be a disaster.
It's designed by very very smart people, believe me. In reality, it's struggling to maintain frequency and voltage stability because control capacity is almost tapped out.
You are an idiot.
I suggest to check https://www.eex.com/en/ to see what primary reserves and secondary reserve power prices are.
Germanies grid has absolutely no problems to maintain frequency, WTF... how dumb are you or who is paying you for spreading such bollocks?
Oh, stop that BS. Yes, stop that bull shit and read some facts, asshole. Yes, you are not an idiot but an asshole. Germany is producing over the course of a year 40% of its power by renewables.
Had Germany relied only on renewables they would have had thousands people dead from hypothermia. Germany lives in the EU. We have a power grid spanning from UK (yes they are connected by underground/undersea cables) to Mongolia. The biggest interconnected grind in the world.
And: no one is using electric power in Germany to heat a house. And: global warming, ever heard about it? This Januar was extremely warm...
For fuck sake: damn idiots stop posting this bullshit.
You wont get a "Chernobyl" from those reactors. They are completely different types of builds.
However I agree that western Europe should either build more safe reactors or phase them out completely. Except for weapon programs they are just an expensive hobby.
Sweden has a standing army. It is just not in the NATO.
However I agree with the rest of your post.
In the Iraq war, America bombed only bridges and other infrastructure, were the contracts for rebuilding them were already handed to american companies.
Mind you during the last natural disaster our military provided resources to help evacuate people from islands and keep civilians safe too. No bullets fired there. Why would you want to let these people die? For that we have in civilized countries civil authorities. You seem to be an idiot. You're a monster. Oh, you are an idiot.
Depending in which country he lives.... there is no country around that ever would attack him. E.g. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, or as a matter of fact: Germany.
I want ZERO of my tax dollars to EVER go to the military - but I cannot demand that. Actually, when I was a young man, I invented various versions of "democracies".
One was basically "share" based, as in a stock market, one other one was like you describe.
At the time of voting you would simply vote how much % of your income taxes would diverted to various topics like military, education etc.
In a country like Switzerland and Germany where education standards are the highest of the world... ah ha! Thanks for your warning!! Misinformed my ass...
(As opposed to tropical country where hydro-dam are producing pollution, simply due to rotting and decomposing mass that got submerged at the bottom of the artificial lake) Every new build water power plant (based on a hydro dam) has the problem of rotting vegetation. Has nothing to do with tropes or Alpes.
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And what has "base load" capacity to do with that considering that Switzerland's "base load" is more or less like Germanys and around 40% of peak?
Reliable base load? What is that supposed to mean?
So you don't need "reliable" mid range load? Not "reliable" peak load? Not "reliable" reserve power? Not "reliable" balancing power?
Read a book about electric power generation.
"Base load" is not what you think it is.
Wind and Solar produced about 35% in 2016 in Germany, 2% are water and the rest is biomass.
And what is wrong with burning biomass is beyond me. It is climate neutral. Either it rots or you ferment/burn it.
and they are already running into limits of what the grid can handle without significantly larger investments in transmission systems
No we are not. That is fear mongering. We would in future if we would not upgrade the grid, but we do upgrade the grid, so what exactly is your point?
Germany is a net exporter of electricity.
And most of the time it is a next exporter to France, too.
Germany shows that a hard turn towards renewables is not effective or realistic.
Germany has right no about 40% of its energy produced by renewables, I think the truth is always realistic.
In Germany we don't pay energy taxes to pay for renewables.
We pay CO2 taxes, though.
What was your point?
Only german Neanderthals :D (Considering that Neanderthal is a German place)
And, unfortunately my land lord replaced my perfect (I liked them!) gas ovens in every living room with a so called "Therme" and radiators. The Therme needs electric power to pump the hot water around.
But bottom line you are right ...
(because inductive losses for AC are so huge) ...
Only if there is something where the power line can induce something
I really suggest to stop posting bullocks and learn something.
You are only rephrasing false statements from articles you have read, without any understanding what you are talking about.
Cooling only costs energy while cooling it down from +20 to - 100 degrees.
Maintaining the -100 is super simple: insulation. We are not talking about an AC here, where constantly heat is pumped into the house and you have a bad bad bad insulated house and try to cool it down.
Keeping a superconductor at temperature basically costs nothing.
Actually high temperature super conductors are around -85 degrees, not -140 .... or are you arguing about science and using Fahrenheit instead of Celsius/Kelvin?
Blackouts mean that your power grid has failed.
The last black out was about ten years ago in a winter when "strange" weather caused power line poles to ice over and collapse. So the physical connection to the grid was lost for a few towns.
There are no other "black outs" ... why should there? Just because we now have a lot of renewables does not mean the old power plants no longer exist. And more important, for you dumb ass: we are interconnected in the largest power grid of the world, spanning 25,000 miles from east to west.
We never will ever have a power failure due to a grid problem unless the failing part is physically disconnected from the grid.
So, you dumb ass, why do you live in a galaxy far far away, and are so super smart smart smart and thing you are smarter than the people who are actually living in the country you complain about? Working on your PhD in Power Distribution? Then please don't invite me to your thesis defense ... it will be a disaster.
It's designed by very very smart people, believe me. In reality, it's struggling to maintain frequency and voltage stability because control capacity is almost tapped out.
You are an idiot.
I suggest to check https://www.eex.com/en/ to see what primary reserves and secondary reserve power prices are.
Germanies grid has absolutely no problems to maintain frequency, WTF ... how dumb are you or who is paying you for spreading such bollocks?
Yes, they are hastily expanding.
No we aren't.
Oh, stop that BS.
Yes, stop that bull shit and read some facts, asshole. Yes, you are not an idiot but an asshole.
Germany is producing over the course of a year 40% of its power by renewables.
Had Germany relied only on renewables they would have had thousands people dead from hypothermia.
Germany lives in the EU. We have a power grid spanning from UK (yes they are connected by underground/undersea cables) to Mongolia. The biggest interconnected grind in the world.
And: no one is using electric power in Germany to heat a house. And: global warming, ever heard about it? This Januar was extremely warm ...
For fuck sake: damn idiots stop posting this bullshit.
You wont get a "Chernobyl" from those reactors.
They are completely different types of builds.
However I agree that western Europe should either build more safe reactors or phase them out completely.
Except for weapon programs they are just an expensive hobby.
Considering that "Vattenfall" is Swedish/Norwegian for "water fall" ...
Maybe Moldova will allow you to dump it there if you throw enough money at them, they sure need it. ;D
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We crossed the 80% renewables a few weeks ago.
Unfortunately only on special days.
The over the year contribution of renewables is close to 40% only.
I guess you are mixing up Sweden with Switzerland ;D
Sweden has a standing army.
It is just not in the NATO.
However I agree with the rest of your post.
In the Iraq war, America bombed only bridges and other infrastructure, were the contracts for rebuilding them were already handed to american companies.
Mind you during the last natural disaster our military provided resources to help evacuate people from islands and keep civilians safe too. No bullets fired there. Why would you want to let these people die?
For that we have in civilized countries civil authorities. You seem to be an idiot.
You're a monster.
Oh, you are an idiot.
Depending in which country he lives .... there is no country around that ever would attack him.
E.g. Australia, New Zealand, Canada, or as a matter of fact: Germany.
I want ZERO of my tax dollars to EVER go to the military - but I cannot demand that.
Actually, when I was a young man, I invented various versions of "democracies".
One was basically "share" based, as in a stock market, one other one was like you describe.
At the time of voting you would simply vote how much % of your income taxes would diverted to various topics like military, education etc.
Perhaps I once write a SF novel about that :D
But you do know that one of the biggest or more precisely most important particle colliders is in ... Switzerland? I mean: you did know that?
So what do you want? More democracy, as the Swiss have it, or less, like the americans have it?
In a country like Switzerland and Germany where education standards are the highest of the world ... ah ha! Thanks for your warning!! ...
Misinformed my ass
(As opposed to tropical country where hydro-dam are producing pollution, simply due to rotting and decomposing mass that got submerged at the bottom of the artificial lake)
Every new build water power plant (based on a hydro dam) has the problem of rotting vegetation.
Has nothing to do with tropes or Alpes.
For that they would need to build: gas power plants, pipelines and have a gas contract. ...
None of that is going to happen