More good information building on the previous instalment and I am inclined to reiterate my previous comment "Important information without quite getting to the root of the issue. Due to wind droughts and lack of grid-scale storage, wind power will never work, so get it off the grid!"
As Paul Homewood would say, not many people know.... In this case what they don't know enough about is the fatal flaw in the wind supply which is beyond the intermittent aspect which can be mitigated at vast expense to keep the system working. It is not enough to just keep the system working because the costs will continue to increase as long as more unreliable energy is loaded on the grid.
For the sake of British industry, household budgets and the national economy. the cost of power has to fall to a fraction of the present figure. The only way to achieve that quickly is to burn more coal in new plant which is more efficient, never mind the emissions, it is about getting more power from a ton of coal.
The main thing that people need to know about storage is that it is not feasible or affordable to build the amount of storage required to get through a series of nights with little or no wind.
And people need to know about severe and prolonged wind droughts, the major Dunkelflautes that can last for many days or even weeks.
When enough people know about wind droughts and lack of storage, it will be possible to build a weight of popular opinion to drive politicians to achieve better policies. The politicians are not interested in information, they are interested in getting elected or re-elected.
We have to lift wind literacy in the community and I'm not aware of any organisation that is trying to do that apart from the energy realists of Australia. Even here, despite briefing some 100 journalists over several years, it is still not running in the media.
I chose to include wind droughts in my energy storage article because they primarily affect the amount of energy storage required. When considering Net Generation alone, they are not as important. If you are already using dispatchables for back-up, whether you run them 5 hours or 90 hours does not change the message.
{"When enough people know about wind droughts and lack of storage, it will be possible to build a weight of popular opinion to drive politicians to achieve better policies. The politicians are not interested in information, they are interested in getting elected or re-elected"}
The entire issue around renewables is that the common person does not know anything about them except for the propaganda they get from the gov't and MSM. My thought is that the only way to counter this is to explain the physics of how they operate. How they work, and how they are designed.
More good information building on the previous instalment and I am inclined to reiterate my previous comment "Important information without quite getting to the root of the issue. Due to wind droughts and lack of grid-scale storage, wind power will never work, so get it off the grid!"
As Paul Homewood would say, not many people know.... In this case what they don't know enough about is the fatal flaw in the wind supply which is beyond the intermittent aspect which can be mitigated at vast expense to keep the system working. It is not enough to just keep the system working because the costs will continue to increase as long as more unreliable energy is loaded on the grid.
For the sake of British industry, household budgets and the national economy. the cost of power has to fall to a fraction of the present figure. The only way to achieve that quickly is to burn more coal in new plant which is more efficient, never mind the emissions, it is about getting more power from a ton of coal.
The main thing that people need to know about storage is that it is not feasible or affordable to build the amount of storage required to get through a series of nights with little or no wind.
And people need to know about severe and prolonged wind droughts, the major Dunkelflautes that can last for many days or even weeks.
When enough people know about wind droughts and lack of storage, it will be possible to build a weight of popular opinion to drive politicians to achieve better policies. The politicians are not interested in information, they are interested in getting elected or re-elected.
We have to lift wind literacy in the community and I'm not aware of any organisation that is trying to do that apart from the energy realists of Australia. Even here, despite briefing some 100 journalists over several years, it is still not running in the media.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts
https://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/escaping-the-wind-drought-trap
Everything you say is true.
I chose to include wind droughts in my energy storage article because they primarily affect the amount of energy storage required. When considering Net Generation alone, they are not as important. If you are already using dispatchables for back-up, whether you run them 5 hours or 90 hours does not change the message.
{"When enough people know about wind droughts and lack of storage, it will be possible to build a weight of popular opinion to drive politicians to achieve better policies. The politicians are not interested in information, they are interested in getting elected or re-elected"}
The entire issue around renewables is that the common person does not know anything about them except for the propaganda they get from the gov't and MSM. My thought is that the only way to counter this is to explain the physics of how they operate. How they work, and how they are designed.