Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Gas Coal Nuclear

On 1/8/2024 10:37 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
> "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.
> 
If you want to be pedantic, all power is ultimately gravity power.
I was going to say all power is ultimately solar, but even the
fusion that powers stars (and creates the radioactive metals used
in nuclear power) is the result of gravity compressing the star's
contents.  But that's not what anybody normally means when talking
about solar.