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Originally Posted by Razor
The power cycles created by windmills require conditioning before hitting the grid, and its not an easily regulated and controlled source. What does that mean? Once again, we need an improved, high capacity battery to truly take advantage of wind (and many other alternative source) energy.
I'm with TR...the sooner we get serious about nuclear power, the better.
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Roger all. Furthermore, you either have to have sufficient reserve capacity in the grid to provide 100% of the power needs for low or no wind days, or storage for the windmill power to cover needs during reduced wind power production. How do you store terawatts of power?
This would lead to a very spotty availability, with California type rolling brownouts or blackouts to reduce demand to actual real time generating capacity.
The winds drops, and you lose power periodically. You want to live in the Southern or Southwestern summer with intermittent AC?
TR
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