October 11, 2021
The Green Joke is on Us
Timothy Birdnow
Yep.
Having Fun Watching Wind and Solar Failing to Step Up to Power the World Economy:
The best measure for wind is the hourly median capacity factor. Half the hours are under 7%. Half above. But the curve of hourly output is a decay curve, highly skewed towards zero. 35% of the time wind doesn't produce anything at all.
Tim adds:
Nothing like trying to power a 21st century economy with 17th century technology. Might as well be using sailing ships to deliver cargo worldwide.
Wind and solar are both passive systems. There is nothing proactive about them. Rather "feminine" if you like. I wonder if this isn't the reason at least some of its advocates like it; they fear and resent a more active system because it's too "masculine". Sounds kind of crazy but liberals really do think that way. They are all about symbolism and psychology and never about nuts and bolts.
Yep.
Having Fun Watching Wind and Solar Failing to Step Up to Power the World Economy:
"You don’t have to be any kind of a genius to figure out that wind and
solar generation are never going to supplant fossil fuels in powering
the world economy. The main reason is that the wind and sun only work
part time, indeed well less than half of the time at best. With wind,
you never know when it might work, and over a year a given facility
might on average produce about 30-35% of rated capacity, with long and
random periods of nothing. With the sun, you know from the get-go that
you will get nothing fully half the time (i.e., night); and cloudy days
wipe out half and more of the remaining half, again at random times.
Averaged over the year, you’ll be lucky to get 20% of rated capacity
from a solar facility.
Richard Wakefield adds:The best measure for wind is the hourly median capacity factor. Half the hours are under 7%. Half above. But the curve of hourly output is a decay curve, highly skewed towards zero. 35% of the time wind doesn't produce anything at all.
Nothing like trying to power a 21st century economy with 17th century technology. Might as well be using sailing ships to deliver cargo worldwide.
Wind and solar are both passive systems. There is nothing proactive about them. Rather "feminine" if you like. I wonder if this isn't the reason at least some of its advocates like it; they fear and resent a more active system because it's too "masculine". Sounds kind of crazy but liberals really do think that way. They are all about symbolism and psychology and never about nuts and bolts.
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Good grief, Tim, don't mention sailing ships. Somebody might hear you...
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at October 11, 2021 09:30 PM (zjwe/)
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I may have just doomed us to shipping all our cargo by air power...
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at October 13, 2021 08:27 AM (ZmO8h)
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