The collapse of Germany's solar and wind industry!!

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nobody is claiming alternative energies can handle our loads; we are merely balancing our energy portfolio.
How is something that you can not control, something that is always fluctuating, "merely balancing" our energy? It is not, you are a literal blithering idiot.
just because You are clueless and Causeless doesn't mean everybody else is.

wind is always blowing, somewhere. a more efficient grid can connect energy sources much easier.
 
For example?
For example, you are a troll, obviously you have no facts to add here or there, so you troll. Your next response typically will be to demand facts of me or others, and then reply, "no its not".


So, you can't support your claim as usual.

Do you know how to calculate the resistance of cabling? Resistance causes power consumption/loss. Another idiot that has no clue how electricity works.
a better grid, could place major transmission lines underground and insulated.
 
For example?
For example, you are a troll, obviously you have no facts to add here or there, so you troll. Your next response typically will be to demand facts of me or others, and then reply, "no its not".


So, you can't support your claim as usual.

Do you know how to calculate the resistance of cabling? Resistance causes power consumption/loss. Another idiot that has no clue how electricity works.
a better grid, could place major transmission lines underground and insulated.

WE already do this in the US.. And the loss is greater..
 
If the grid needs to "upgraded" to implement renewables, that means renewables were forced on us when they were not ready.
a better grid means it is easier to "plug and play" energy sources.

Cost of using renewables when THEY are ready to perform is idling perfectly good power plants that have employees and investors. And the cost of WASTED energy from the power-down/power-up cycles is NEVER properly added to cost of solar and wind.

In MOST BIG systems -- the excess energy is just DUMPED and wasted rather than cycling very expensive equipment. The "plug/play" catchword is just ANOTHER exaggeration of how simple all this is promulgated by folks who have no FUCKING idea how the lights come on.. .
we just need a better grid with more capacitance.

:lmao: :gay: :lmao:

Yep a couple Gtons of limited life batteries. Do some math. The Nissan Leaf has a 30Kw-hr battery. That's enough to run 30 homes for 1hour. (NOT including grocery stores, steel mills, hospitals, etc).. AND assuming none of those of homes are already trying to CHARGE a Nissan Leaf.. :rofl: It's COST is somewhere around $4000. To carry a small town (30K homes) with all it's other infrastructure thru a 1 hr "lapse in sun or wind", you're talking about 2000 of these battery packs and $8Mill (not counting land, design, facilities construction, other stuff reqd and maintenance) for just ONE HOUR !! To get thru night without solar you need 32,000 of the packs @ a cost of $128Mill. Total cost of the facility could approach $250,000,000.

The combined energy stored in that last "grid scale battery" is a fucking 960Mwatt - hrs. It would take a solar capacity of THREE TIMES what you put into the field in the first place to keep it charged. Or the full capacity of nuclear power plant for 1 hour. And if all that energy were RELEASED by a plane crash or a terrorist action -- it would have the explosive yield of a small tactical nuclear weapon.. Any questions? :happy-1:
Yep. Are all engineers as stupid as you? LOL

Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Power the California Grid

It's the latest response to a fossil-fuel disaster.
by
Tom Randall
September 15, 2016, 11:21 AM PDT
Tesla just won a bid to supply grid-scale power in Southern California to help prevent electricity shortages following the biggest natural gas leak in U.S. history. The Powerpacks, worth tens of millions of dollars, will be operational in record time—by the end of this year.

Tesla Motors Inc. will supply 20 megawatts (80 megawatt-hours) of energy storage to Southern California Edison as part of a wider effort to prevent blackouts by replacing fossil-fuel electricity generation with lithium-ion batteries. Tesla's contribution is enough to power about 2,500 homes for a full day, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. But the real significance of the deal is the speed with which lithium-ion battery packs are being deployed.

Eos Energy Storage – Powering the Dawn of Energy Storage

Eos Energy Storage, the startup that’s attracted utility interest from around the world in its low-cost, zinc-based batteries, is raising money to build more of them, and to get those units out in the field. Deployments are needed to prove the company’s bold claims of multi-hour, long-lasting energy storage at a cost of $160 per kilowatt-hour. On Tuesday, Eos announced the initial closing of a sale in a private placement of approximately $23 million.

First grid-scale Tesla Powerpack for Europe installed in the UK

First grid-scale Tesla Powerpack for Europe installed in the UK
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The first grid-scale installation of the Tesla Powerpack system in Europe has been completed in the UK by Camborne Energy Storage and is already providing ancillary services to the National Grid.

The 500kWh capacity system, has been co-located with a 500kWp solar farm in Somerset to demonstrate the potential to provide a balanced grid.

Each of Camborne’s installed systems are designed to further assist and improve the efficiency of the UK’s energy infrastructure, with this latest project providing firm frequency response (FFR) to the grid.

It is currently not providing arbitrage but is prepared to in the future with the assistance of an undisclosed aggregator working with Camborne.

Dan Taylor, managing director of Camborne, said: “The development of Tesla’s first European grid-tied system is an exciting step forward for Camborne and Tesla in terms of our respective storage strategies. This project is another success for storage development in the UK and being co-located with a renewable generation site, should offer significant benefits to all stakeholders.”

According to Poweri Services, which was the EPC for the project, it is a commercially viable project and not a demonstration. The system was able to share the existing grid connection used by the solar farm, which helped to keep the costs low.

Wow Old Rocks that's bigger and less energy than I calculated. At 500KW-hrs ALL of that is 500 homes for ONE HOUR.. Good job. I see Elon Musk is sucking up more subsidies...

Guess what? If you WERE a superb engineer/scientist as I am and not talking out of your ass, you would have recognized that "this latest project providing firm frequency response to the Grid" is not intended as "grid scale storage" at all. But merely power conditioning, for removing transient frequency variations between different sections of the grid. It's purpose is not measured by Homes and hours of storage. Because it does that job on Higher Energies in a matter of SECONDS.

Nice try...
 
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"The U.S. is indeed the fastest developed growth market for solar globally and in 2016 will be the highest growth market overall," said Mohit Anand, GTM's senior analyst for Global Solar Market

U.S. set to smash solar power records this year

No new coal plants at all. Wind and solar account for over 68% of all new generation in 2015.
Still haven't learned that generation capacity and actual output are not the same things huh?

Wind only produces on average less than 30% of its nominal capacity
And yet the utilities are putting up gigawatts of wind, and no coal fired at all. And gigawatts of solar. You think they don't know the ratio of rated production to actual production? They are putting up both solar and wind because the real production of both at present prices make them cheaper per kw/hr of electricity than coal or even natural gas. And they are not dependent on further infrastructure, such as pipelines and railroad. And the price of wind and the sun does not change dependent on the market.

Why the Texas wind boom may be an outlier rather than a model for the wind industry in the rest of the U.S.

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The One and Only Texas Wind Boom
Wind power has transformed the heart of fossil-fuel country. Can the rest of the United States follow suit?

Rolan Petty stabbed at the dirt with a boot toe and looked up at the broiling west Texas sun. “I call it farming on faith,” he said of his unirrigated cotton farm. “You just have faith that the rain is gonna come.”

If it doesn’t come, Petty has a backup income stream: leasing fees. All around us, towering 150 feet over Petty’s combine and the scrubby-looking cotton plants in neat rows, stood a forest of wind turbines that stretched to the horizon. Petty’s land on the arid plain of west Texas lies on the edge of the vast Horse Hollow wind farm, with 430 turbines spread over 73 square miles. It was the largest wind farm in the world when it was completed, in 2006. Petty’s family leases land to Horse Hollow and another wind farm in the area, making about $7,500 a year on each of the several dozen turbines on their property. Wind power has become a big windfall for the Pettys, as it has for many landowners in Texas—allowing Rolan and his parents and three brothers to make hundreds of thousands of dollars every year whether the rains come or not. And the Petty farm is just a small player in the largest renewable-energy boom the United States has ever seen.

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A turbine at the Horse Hollow wind farm.
With nearly 18,000 megawatts of capacity, Texas, if it were a country, would be the sixth-largest generator of wind power in the world, right behind Spain. Now Texas is preparing to add several thousand megawatts more—roughly equal to the wind capacity that can be found in all of California. Most of these turbines are in west Texas, one of the most desolate and windy regions in the continental United States. Fifteen years ago, when the groundwork for this boom was being set, this area had little but cotton and grain farms, oil fields, scrub and dry riverbeds, and small towns that were mostly withering.

Today it’s a land of spindly white turbines that line the highways—and the pockets of landowners. At night, when the wind blows strongest and steadiest, if you stand out in one of the fields you can hear the great blades make a ghostly shoop-shoop sound as they turn. Wind power has brought prosperity to towns that were literally drying up less than a generation ago. “In the 2011 drought a lot of people around here would have filed for bankruptcy if not for the turbines,” said Russ Petty, one of Rolan’s brothers, who was giving me a driving tour of the property. “What it’s done is helped keep this land in the family.”
Yeah they are doing it for the subsidies

Wind-Energy Sector Gets $176 Billion Worth of Crony Capitalism

Germany also had put up gigawatts of wind if you are talking rated capacity but the system is a failure and can't meet the power demands
The same thing happened in the UK

And like I keep telling you installed capacity is not the same thing as actual output

We know the average output of wind is less than 30% of its rated nominal capacity

National Wind Watch | Output From Industrial Wind Power

Industry estimates project an annual output of 30-40%, but real-world experience shows that annual outputs of 15-30% of capacity are more typical.
National Wind Watch | Output From Industrial Wind Power

What is the difference between large and small turbines?

Small turbines are designed to directly supply a home or other building. Their variable output is balanced by battery storage and supplemented by the grid or an on-site backup generator.

Large turbines are designed to supply the grid itself. The variable output of large wind turbines adds to the complexity of balancing supply and demand, because there is no large-scale storage on the grid.

As we post, there is grid scale storage being made in the US in Nevada and North Carolina. And that really changes the whole equation. Wind, per kw/hr created, is cheaper than coal or gas. And solar just went lower than wind. Goodby coal.

you are still failing to use actual output in your cost estimates
if your windmill only produces 15% of its nominal capacity the price is more than 6 times higher
 
For example?
For example, you are a troll, obviously you have no facts to add here or there, so you troll. Your next response typically will be to demand facts of me or others, and then reply, "no its not".


So, you can't support your claim as usual.

Do you know how to calculate the resistance of cabling? Resistance causes power consumption/loss. Another idiot that has no clue how electricity works.
a better grid, could place major transmission lines underground and insulated.

WE already do this in the US.. And the loss is greater..
Underground, insulated energy transmission lines have a greater loss than aerial transmission lines?
 
a better grid means it is easier to "plug and play" energy sources.

Cost of using renewables when THEY are ready to perform is idling perfectly good power plants that have employees and investors. And the cost of WASTED energy from the power-down/power-up cycles is NEVER properly added to cost of solar and wind.

In MOST BIG systems -- the excess energy is just DUMPED and wasted rather than cycling very expensive equipment. The "plug/play" catchword is just ANOTHER exaggeration of how simple all this is promulgated by folks who have no FUCKING idea how the lights come on.. .
we just need a better grid with more capacitance.

:lmao: :gay: :lmao:

Yep a couple Gtons of limited life batteries. Do some math. The Nissan Leaf has a 30Kw-hr battery. That's enough to run 30 homes for 1hour. (NOT including grocery stores, steel mills, hospitals, etc).. AND assuming none of those of homes are already trying to CHARGE a Nissan Leaf.. :rofl: It's COST is somewhere around $4000. To carry a small town (30K homes) with all it's other infrastructure thru a 1 hr "lapse in sun or wind", you're talking about 2000 of these battery packs and $8Mill (not counting land, design, facilities construction, other stuff reqd and maintenance) for just ONE HOUR !! To get thru night without solar you need 32,000 of the packs @ a cost of $128Mill. Total cost of the facility could approach $250,000,000.

The combined energy stored in that last "grid scale battery" is a fucking 960Mwatt - hrs. It would take a solar capacity of THREE TIMES what you put into the field in the first place to keep it charged. Or the full capacity of nuclear power plant for 1 hour. And if all that energy were RELEASED by a plane crash or a terrorist action -- it would have the explosive yield of a small tactical nuclear weapon.. Any questions? :happy-1:
Yep. Are all engineers as stupid as you? LOL

Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Power the California Grid

It's the latest response to a fossil-fuel disaster.
by
Tom Randall
September 15, 2016, 11:21 AM PDT
Tesla just won a bid to supply grid-scale power in Southern California to help prevent electricity shortages following the biggest natural gas leak in U.S. history. The Powerpacks, worth tens of millions of dollars, will be operational in record time—by the end of this year.

Tesla Motors Inc. will supply 20 megawatts (80 megawatt-hours) of energy storage to Southern California Edison as part of a wider effort to prevent blackouts by replacing fossil-fuel electricity generation with lithium-ion batteries. Tesla's contribution is enough to power about 2,500 homes for a full day, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. But the real significance of the deal is the speed with which lithium-ion battery packs are being deployed.

Eos Energy Storage – Powering the Dawn of Energy Storage

Eos Energy Storage, the startup that’s attracted utility interest from around the world in its low-cost, zinc-based batteries, is raising money to build more of them, and to get those units out in the field. Deployments are needed to prove the company’s bold claims of multi-hour, long-lasting energy storage at a cost of $160 per kilowatt-hour. On Tuesday, Eos announced the initial closing of a sale in a private placement of approximately $23 million.

First grid-scale Tesla Powerpack for Europe installed in the UK

First grid-scale Tesla Powerpack for Europe installed in the UK
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Image: Tesla.

The first grid-scale installation of the Tesla Powerpack system in Europe has been completed in the UK by Camborne Energy Storage and is already providing ancillary services to the National Grid.

The 500kWh capacity system, has been co-located with a 500kWp solar farm in Somerset to demonstrate the potential to provide a balanced grid.

Each of Camborne’s installed systems are designed to further assist and improve the efficiency of the UK’s energy infrastructure, with this latest project providing firm frequency response (FFR) to the grid.

It is currently not providing arbitrage but is prepared to in the future with the assistance of an undisclosed aggregator working with Camborne.

Dan Taylor, managing director of Camborne, said: “The development of Tesla’s first European grid-tied system is an exciting step forward for Camborne and Tesla in terms of our respective storage strategies. This project is another success for storage development in the UK and being co-located with a renewable generation site, should offer significant benefits to all stakeholders.”

According to Poweri Services, which was the EPC for the project, it is a commercially viable project and not a demonstration. The system was able to share the existing grid connection used by the solar farm, which helped to keep the costs low.

Wow Old Rocks that's bigger and less energy than I calculated. At 500KW-hrs ALL of that is 500 homes for ONE HOUR.. Good job. I see Elon Musk is sucking up more subsidies...

Guess what? If you WERE a superb engineer/scientist as I am and not talking out of your ass, you would have recognized that "this latest project providing firm frequency response to the Grid" is not intended as "grid scale storage" at all. But merely power conditioning, for removing transient frequency variations between different sections of the grid. It's purpose is not measured by Homes and hours of storage. Because it does that job on Higher Energies in a matter of SECONDS.

Nice try...
the point is, energy specialists now have an hour to fix a problem before it affects their customers.
 
it is a self-evident truth; wind energy is available.
Sure, stuff that is self-evident is very easy to prove, so prove it. The Germans have not proved it, California has not proved it. Electricity rates have risen, food prices are going up, all cause of Energy costs. The only thing that has been proven the last 20 years, is if we keep making more Wind Turbines and Solar Panels, everyone will be on food stamps.


Absolutely correct sir..........and the only reason I hang around this forum amongst mental cases. A lot of people don't have a clue what this shit costs. Progressives never care what the costs are. If its somebody else's dime, "FUCK YOU!". Thankfully for we non-mental cases, President Trump recognizes cost losers.......going to be issuing another 100 executive orders before the week ends, many of them related to climate change bogusness.:bye1::eusa_dance::eusa_dance::eusa_dance:
yet, the war on drugs is still with us. nobody takes the right wing seriously about economics or the law.
 
This is one of those threads where when you go through it, you realize you are dealing with some folks who are not quite able to connect the dots on stuff. Its not a matter of intelligence, mind you but rather thought processing. Huge difference. You know......doing things over and over and over and expecting a different result.:bye1:

People in here have been talking about the emerging dominance of renewable energy for over 10 years, yet if you look at the landscape as a football field, the ball has been moved about ONE yard towards the goalposts. Translation? Renewables continue to be a fringe energy source and still growing at a snails pace. All of the comparison graphs to fossil fuels clearly display this ( like the one I posted a couple of pages back from the EIA ). All projections decades out from 2017 display a continued snails pace of growth relative to the dominance of fossil fuels. Oh....and posting growth rates of renewable energy in an attempt to spike the football?:eusa_hand:. One will notice that the before and after #'s compare the specific types of renewable energy vs. themselves.....:funnyface::funnyface:...........a laughable way of promoting statistics. Its called..............propaganda.

Here is the only graph related to growth rates that matters >>>

[URL=http://s42.photobucket.com/user/baldaltima/media/EIA-annual-outlook-2011-2040_2.png.html][/URL]



BTW.....the Obama EIA chart from 2016 shows the same thing......posted it a couple of pages back.:bye1::bye1::bye1:



But you AGW religion folks keep telling us about how renewables are going to be king in a few years!!:deal:
 
Cost of using renewables when THEY are ready to perform is idling perfectly good power plants that have employees and investors. And the cost of WASTED energy from the power-down/power-up cycles is NEVER properly added to cost of solar and wind.

In MOST BIG systems -- the excess energy is just DUMPED and wasted rather than cycling very expensive equipment. The "plug/play" catchword is just ANOTHER exaggeration of how simple all this is promulgated by folks who have no FUCKING idea how the lights come on.. .
we just need a better grid with more capacitance.

:lmao: :gay: :lmao:

Yep a couple Gtons of limited life batteries. Do some math. The Nissan Leaf has a 30Kw-hr battery. That's enough to run 30 homes for 1hour. (NOT including grocery stores, steel mills, hospitals, etc).. AND assuming none of those of homes are already trying to CHARGE a Nissan Leaf.. :rofl: It's COST is somewhere around $4000. To carry a small town (30K homes) with all it's other infrastructure thru a 1 hr "lapse in sun or wind", you're talking about 2000 of these battery packs and $8Mill (not counting land, design, facilities construction, other stuff reqd and maintenance) for just ONE HOUR !! To get thru night without solar you need 32,000 of the packs @ a cost of $128Mill. Total cost of the facility could approach $250,000,000.

The combined energy stored in that last "grid scale battery" is a fucking 960Mwatt - hrs. It would take a solar capacity of THREE TIMES what you put into the field in the first place to keep it charged. Or the full capacity of nuclear power plant for 1 hour. And if all that energy were RELEASED by a plane crash or a terrorist action -- it would have the explosive yield of a small tactical nuclear weapon.. Any questions? :happy-1:
Yep. Are all engineers as stupid as you? LOL

Tesla Wins Massive Contract to Power the California Grid

It's the latest response to a fossil-fuel disaster.
by
Tom Randall
September 15, 2016, 11:21 AM PDT
Tesla just won a bid to supply grid-scale power in Southern California to help prevent electricity shortages following the biggest natural gas leak in U.S. history. The Powerpacks, worth tens of millions of dollars, will be operational in record time—by the end of this year.

Tesla Motors Inc. will supply 20 megawatts (80 megawatt-hours) of energy storage to Southern California Edison as part of a wider effort to prevent blackouts by replacing fossil-fuel electricity generation with lithium-ion batteries. Tesla's contribution is enough to power about 2,500 homes for a full day, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. But the real significance of the deal is the speed with which lithium-ion battery packs are being deployed.

Eos Energy Storage – Powering the Dawn of Energy Storage

Eos Energy Storage, the startup that’s attracted utility interest from around the world in its low-cost, zinc-based batteries, is raising money to build more of them, and to get those units out in the field. Deployments are needed to prove the company’s bold claims of multi-hour, long-lasting energy storage at a cost of $160 per kilowatt-hour. On Tuesday, Eos announced the initial closing of a sale in a private placement of approximately $23 million.

First grid-scale Tesla Powerpack for Europe installed in the UK

First grid-scale Tesla Powerpack for Europe installed in the UK
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Image: Tesla.

The first grid-scale installation of the Tesla Powerpack system in Europe has been completed in the UK by Camborne Energy Storage and is already providing ancillary services to the National Grid.

The 500kWh capacity system, has been co-located with a 500kWp solar farm in Somerset to demonstrate the potential to provide a balanced grid.

Each of Camborne’s installed systems are designed to further assist and improve the efficiency of the UK’s energy infrastructure, with this latest project providing firm frequency response (FFR) to the grid.

It is currently not providing arbitrage but is prepared to in the future with the assistance of an undisclosed aggregator working with Camborne.

Dan Taylor, managing director of Camborne, said: “The development of Tesla’s first European grid-tied system is an exciting step forward for Camborne and Tesla in terms of our respective storage strategies. This project is another success for storage development in the UK and being co-located with a renewable generation site, should offer significant benefits to all stakeholders.”

According to Poweri Services, which was the EPC for the project, it is a commercially viable project and not a demonstration. The system was able to share the existing grid connection used by the solar farm, which helped to keep the costs low.

Too Funny:

The batteries are in a blast configuration... Looks like they have been having some catastrophic failure problems.. AND....

Further investigation finds; according to the British Electrical Safety Division, they will not allow an unprotected connection to the grid due to problems with catastrophic failure of batteries.
:blowup::blowup::blowup::itsok:

Going to have to look into this further.. Its a fledgling industry rife with problems.. Not ready for prime time
Why does los angeles need batteries? Oh yea, they shut down San Onofre Nuclear Power Station, now they need power and they certainly don't want to eat crow, by having to build another, or build a fossil plant. Nope, los angeles will buy power from Mexico, New Mexico, and Utah, even Wyoming, and store it in Batteries. Anybody know how much debt California owes? Anybody know how much debt Los Angeles owes?

It don't matter, our generation will never have to pay it off.


Hey man........when these meatheads in California go belly up, the American people are going to foot the bill. It will mean the end of the DUMS being able to win a presidential election given electoral realities. Those fucked up mental cases in California cant spend enough money on stupid stuff for me and keep heading for the cliff. Its win, win for people like us......ultimately, California is going to go the way of Spain on energy and seal the fate of renewable energy. Go...........go............go!!!:rock::rock::rock::rock:
 
all y'all have, is nothing but fallacy. we need to upgrade our grid to better implement any energy strategy.
We need to add modularity and redundancy and the best way to do that is to implement the use of small 4th gen nuclear reactors
 
all y'all have, is nothing but fallacy. we need to upgrade our grid to better implement any energy strategy.
We need to add modularity and redundancy and the best way to do that is to implement the use of small 4th gen nuclear reactors
sure; why not. it will balance our energy portfolio until fusion (an energy with a future) comes online.
 
all y'all have, is nothing but fallacy. we need to upgrade our grid to better implement any energy strategy.
We need to add modularity and redundancy and the best way to do that is to implement the use of small 4th gen nuclear reactors
sure; why not. it will balance our energy portfolio until fusion (an energy with a future) comes online.
Why Don't We Have Fusion Power?

So why do we have fission power, but not fusion power? The answer is pretty simple, and very frustrating to a lot of physicists out there:

We had a Manhattan Project for fission. We need a Manhattan Project for fusion (an energy with a future).

It really is that simple.
 
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