I can accept the first point but I don't see that it makes any sense to
depend upon wind (which may or may not be blowing) to fill the gap for
peak power. The dependency works the other way around.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/24/2014 2:39 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Because, as I wrote, the conventional power supply devices take
> longer to power up than wind turbines. The wind turbines are
> presumably used to plug the gaps in the supply at periods of higher
> demand.
>
> Chris
>
> On 24 Mar 14, at 02:23, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Care to explain why that is? Or why they have wind turbines in the
>> first place if it was their intention not to use them.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> On 3/23/2014 12:46 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>>> You can tell which companies have large coal plants because most
>>> of their wind turbines sit idle.
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>
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