Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Gas Coal Nuclear

"Jim Wilkins" <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Jan 2024 12:37:19 -0500
Newsgroups talk.politics.guns,sci.energy,alt.energy.homepower
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"cshenk"  wrote in message 
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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.
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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.