Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Gas Coal Nuclear

Jim Wilkins wrote:

> "Just Wondering"  wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
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> 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.
> 
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> I firmly do NOT want to be pedantic, it hinders analyzing and solving
> problems. Although I have a science degree that covered
> Thermodynamics and several years of Physics I "gravitated' to
> practical engineering, expanding the scribbled dreams of Ph.D.
> theoreticians into fleshed-out designs, building them and making them
> work. Do you remember me as [email protected]?

One of the troubles here that I have, is not a 'bad one' to have.  My
science background is primarily 'biology realm' with some chemistry
allowed to lay fallow after my attempt to put myself through college.
I'm probably 'undereducated' by the standards of some here for the
types of knowledge background.

Grin, should be fun to drop a 'silly Sally' into the mix!  My skills
are SQL programming, Navy Education and Training, heavy 'Data analysis'
and directing slim resources for maximum benefit to force generation
(getting the right trained sailor to the right ship when needed).

Spent some time post 26year Navy career (E8) in contracting services
and Mitre rings a bell though I never worked for them.  I was mostly
CSC then moved to GS-13(NETC then NAVIFOR).