Re: Australia Wind Energy Cheaper Than Coal, Natural Gas, BNEF Says

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From: Transition Zone
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On Mar 7, 3:36 pm, jg <j...@nospam.com> wrote:
> On 8/03/2013 2:26 AM, Surfer wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 05:08:51 -0700, "Micky Bitsco"
> > <anyonebutob...@whitehouse.gov> wrote:
>
> >> You have to keep that 18 story boiler fired up and hot...
>
> > Yes, but once a properly insulated boiler is hot, it requires
> > relatively little fuel to keep it hot until steam is drawn off to turn
> > a generator.
>
> > When steam is drawn off, more fuel needs to be burnt, because the
> > reduction of pressure in the boiler allows boiling to occur which will
> > cause the water in the boiler to cool down unless more fuel is burnt.
>
> 'Do some research' means find something which agrees with the 'sort of
> feeling' that wind and solar energy vary so much hour by hour, that they
> can't be relied on for any consistency at all.
> By people who probably never learned to sail.
>
>
>
> >> With coal fired power plants, there is little, if any reduction
> >> in green house gases or costs.
>
> > That is not a true statement, because when wind power allows coal
> > fired power plants to be put on standby, less fuel needs to be burnt
> > to keep the boilers hot.
>
> If all coal plants can do is be on or off, there's a gross inefficiency
> in those systems.

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