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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 19, 2022 22:44:35 GMT
By the way, if you were really smart you could get a weather forecast and they could chase the wind and hook up to another location.
Obviously I am dense - according to you. No but perhaps paranoid. I just gave you a link because I thought, on the contrary, that you would have something intelligent to say about it. |
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Post by piglet on Dec 19, 2022 23:13:51 GMT
Ill throw in a breeze block for the Hacienda! Are the consternations in print?, i didnt know hemispheres think.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 20, 2022 2:51:31 GMT
Ill throw in a breeze block for the Hacienda! Are the consternations in print?, i didnt know hemispheres think. It's a form of Avant-garde poetry known as Situationist, from the guy who tried to blow up the Eiffel Tower.
The bridge is amazing. You would normally cross that bridge to get to the palace of the Qing Dynasty.
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Post by besoeker3 on Dec 20, 2022 16:54:08 GMT
Obviously I am dense - according to you. No but perhaps paranoid. I just gave you a link because I thought, on the contrary, that you would have something intelligent to say about it. I did give you a link. Why did you waste it? |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 20, 2022 16:58:53 GMT
No but perhaps paranoid. I just gave you a link because I thought, on the contrary, that you would have something intelligent to say about it. I did give you a link. Why did you waste it? Just let us know your expert opinion on these new designs. I don't really need the small talk. I'm interested in the technology. Will it work better than our existing generators? |
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Post by besoeker3 on Dec 20, 2022 19:02:02 GMT
Weight driven mechanisms have powered clocks since at least the end of the 13th century. And spring driven clock work has been around since 1500.
Hydroelectric power began in the 1870's, and pumped storage hydropower followed in the 1890's.
But it's took until 1991 for a clockwork radio to be devised. And using off-peak electricity to store energy to provide extra electrical energy when required, are still being developed.
Now most of the developed world is on the case, I'm confident that zero carbon is a realisable objective within a decade or so in most of the West...
The beauty of this system is it is all controlled by telemetry and computer automation. You might have been able to build something similar in the past, but likely uneconomical. It's all the little improvements in many things that makes it work in the economic sense, like advanced materials. Telemetry is not exactly new though. It was invented in the 1960's. |
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Post by besoeker3 on Dec 20, 2022 19:06:29 GMT
I did give you a link. Why did you waste it? Just let us know your expert opinion on these new designs. I don't really need the small talk. I'm interested in the technology. Will it work better than our existing generators? It isn't my opinion. Expert or otherwise. It exists - around 1984 in case you are wondering. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 20, 2022 23:33:13 GMT
Just let us know your expert opinion on these new designs. I don't really need the small talk. I'm interested in the technology. Will it work better than our existing generators? It isn't my opinion. Expert or otherwise. It exists - around 1984 in case you are wondering. No I did not mean that. I was already aware of it, and have seen various pictures and hear people talk about it. Lets get back to 2022 because this is the time we are living. The government want to increase wind energy, but also build nuclear for the continuous nature of the supply it provides. These things should do both but are said to be more economical than the offshore wind we have because the standard turbines can't handle high wind speeds. Also if you think how they work, you only need one generator. The water pumping storage system needs a separate generator to get power from the stored energy. With this system you can just engage a gear. |
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Post by besoeker3 on Dec 21, 2022 13:24:09 GMT
It isn't my opinion. Expert or otherwise. It exists - around 1984 in case you are wondering. No I did not mean that. I was already aware of it, and have seen various pictures and hear people talk about it. And I have done it and used it - mostly in the water industry. |
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Post by besoeker3 on Dec 21, 2022 13:40:10 GMT
It isn't my opinion. Expert or otherwise. It exists - around 1984 in case you are wondering. Lets get back to 2022 because this is the time we are living. The government want to increase wind energy, but also build nuclear for the continuous nature of the supply it provides. These things should do both but are said to be more economical than the offshore wind we have because the standard turbines can't handle high wind speeds. Also if you think how they work, you only need one generator. The water pumping storage system needs a separate generator to get power from the stored energy. With this system you can just engage a gear. A couple of considerations for nuclear energy. One is the inflexibility. They are in continuous mode - you can't reduce them down or reduce power very quickly. You can with other generators. The other concern is build time. One nuclear power plant takes on average about 14-1/2 years to build, from the planning phase all the way to operation. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 21, 2022 19:55:43 GMT
Lets get back to 2022 because this is the time we are living. The government want to increase wind energy, but also build nuclear for the continuous nature of the supply it provides. These things should do both but are said to be more economical than the offshore wind we have because the standard turbines can't handle high wind speeds. Also if you think how they work, you only need one generator. The water pumping storage system needs a separate generator to get power from the stored energy. With this system you can just engage a gear. A couple of considerations for nuclear energy. One is the inflexibility. They are in continuous mode - you can't reduce them down or reduce power very quickly. You can with other generators. The other concern is build time. One nuclear power plant takes on average about 14-1/2 years to build, from the planning phase all the way to operation. Here's a little quote from 2013:
It's hardly an enviable record. The trouble is mega projects have little in the way of market competition. The market aught to stop this from happening with generators which are affordable for many businesses. PV has a similar advantage. Some firm which pays a load for electricity can easily just stick them on the roof, no need for years of government committees. Our problem right now is the grid is incapable of handling these kind of loads where industrial scale generation is concerned.
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Post by besoeker3 on Dec 21, 2022 21:51:46 GMT
A couple of considerations for nuclear energy. One is the inflexibility. They are in continuous mode - you can't reduce them down or reduce power very quickly. You can with other generators. The other concern is build time. One nuclear power plant takes on average about 14-1/2 years to build, from the planning phase all the way to operation. Here's a little quote from 2013:
It's hardly an enviable record. The trouble is mega projects have little in the way of market competition. The market aught to stop this from happening with generators which are affordable for many businesses. PV has a similar advantage. Some firm which pays a load for electricity can easily just stick them on the roof, no need for years of government committees. Our problem right now is the grid is incapable of handling these kind of loads where industrial scale generation is concerned.
Good! You are beginning to grasp the nettle. |
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Post by Pacifico on Jan 1, 2023 8:09:22 GMT
Oh look - Windfall taxes have consequences - who would have thought..  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2023 15:53:16 GMT
We've ended up with 5 nuclear power stations owned by EDF, EDF are now nationalised by the French, so the French government own our nuclear power industry.
How did we end up in such a position?
However it happened, it is most unhealthy, IMO.
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