sunnyjoe

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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 09:57

Re: And when the wind isn't blowing??

Your unreliability is my variability.

Off the top of my head it looks to me like we could comfortably double renewable generation without significantly increased risk of brown outs. Agreed.

On the other hand, there's such [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 09:54

Re: Religion...

Science is about repeatability

Indeed. It's also about analyisng the results of those experiments with rigorous statistics and not relying on anecdote. Note: this won't deter me from posting anecdotes reinforcing my personal [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 16:52

Re: Wind farm savings

The report doesn't make clear where these "savings" are coming from.

No, but the press release includes contact details at Siemens which you can ask.

...it looks to me as if those 3500 homes will still be powered [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 09:20

Re: Windturbine with built in storage

Gosh, those idiots at GE ;)

I think they know what they are doing.

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sunnyjoe replied to the Bert's Investor Sanctuary board. 13:08

Re: Buffett sees profit potential in solar

Buffet sees profit in wind too

http://renews.biz/41171/midamerican-reveals-1gw-drive/

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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 09:08

Re: PetraM

I mentioned previously that Coop bank exiting the sector is likely to have a significant effect - they have been the only game in town for small scale wind

Response - zero

I was put off responding because confidentiality [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Bert's Investor Sanctuary board. 13:25

Re: Buffett sees profit potential in solar

Wind does make up part of the supply to the grid but it's not reliable so you do need to have capacity to cover it's failings and that capacity has to be hot and ready to go. With wind you cannot predict how much it's going to give you in any [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Bert's Investor Sanctuary board. 18:29

Re: Buffett sees profit potential in solar

By contrast, look at wind power. There is a similar amount of installed capacity (near to 9GW), but there are times when less than 0.1 GW is generated. So coal plants have to sit there with the boilers fired up and turbines spinning just to be [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 16:22

Re: Uncertainty of Green power.

The DM has exaggerated for effect (quelle surprise)

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sunnyjoe replied to the Bert's Investor Sanctuary board. 13:31

Re: Buffett sees profit potential in solar

They don't appear to be eyeing the North East of the US where there are a lot of people and not many deserts.

That's what the electricity transmission system is for. You put your generators and loads in the most convenient locations [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Bert's Investor Sanctuary board. 13:26

Re: Buffett sees profit potential in solar

Why does it need to be a political "party" issue? Personally I'd prefer to stick with the cold hard economic common sense facts:

* Solar is 100% inefficient at night.

* A whole new generation of cleaner safer nuclear [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Bert's Investor Sanctuary board. 12:43

Re: Buffett sees profit potential in solar

Once you remove the direct government subsidies and the additional tax advantages that are granted [to renewables] then it's far from clear [that they have a clear business case].


Once you remove the indirect government [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Jokers Corner board. 12:19

Re: The Internet

Jokers Corner is the name of a place, whereas Pedants' Corner is where pedants corner one another.

No, it's the other way round.

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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 15:57

Re: Penny drops.

GB has decided to go its own way
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/climate-change-levy/carbon-pf.htm

Other comment outside the Times' paywall
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sunnyjoe replied to the Environmentally Green Fools board. 07:41

Re: 18 months of Solar Panels

Don't forget to factor in the small annual decline in PV module performance

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sunnyjoe replied to the Renewable Energy & Fuel Cells board. 00:53

Re: Tidal Energy

Why do we never hear of that tidal energy? Where can I go to invest?

It's early days for tidal energy. More information here
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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 00:43

Re: China wind's up

interesting news but there must be a mistake.
11.8 billion kWh is not a 41% increase on 71.5 billion kWh.
100.8 billion kWh is a 41% increase on 71.5 billion kWh.

based on these amended figures
2011 average capacity factor = [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 18:19

Re: Fat side of Green economics

A related article

http://www.power-technology.com/news/newsj-murphy-to-build-l...

Once [more]

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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 11:43

Re: Wind of Change ?

May be the US taxpayer is not quite as generous as those in Europe

Judge for yourself
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sunnyjoe replied to the Climate Change board. 14:32

Re: So what's happened in the last couple of months?

Have the windmills done better?

Yes
http://www.renewableuk.com/en/news/press-releases.cfm/2013-0...
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