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

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From: jg
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:36

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On 8/03/2013 2:26 AM, Surfer wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 05:08:51 -0700, "Micky Bitsco"
> <anyonebutobama@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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