Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Gas Coal Nuclear
"Jim Wilkins" <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Jan 2024 12:37:19 -0500
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"cshenk" wrote in message news:[email protected]... Dechucka wrote: > On 28/09/2021 7:12 am, Just Wondering wrote: > > On 9/27/2021 2:15 PM, Dechucka wrote: > > > On 28/09/2021 5:57 am, contact wrote: > > > > When the wind stops blowing, the electricity stops flowing! > > > > > > Interesting my house is totally solar and I have power at night. > > > Go figure > > > > We all figure that either "my house is totally solar" or "I have > > power at night" is a lie, because they can't both be true. > > That is the reality. Come on have a think about how this reality is > achieved. Easy, big backup power and located where sun is the norm, clouds and rain not much so. PS: testing the waters with an older 2021 post. ------------------------- JW was playing a lawyer's word game with what "solar" means, discounting solar-derived electricity stored chemically in batteries, until I pointed out that his strict literal definition would also require solar energy to be stored and used as photons instead of converted to electricity.