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LevinK on March 16, 2006 - 7:50pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
If you account for the higher losses from power transmission from wind-mills located who-knows-where, the losses for maintaining a spinning reserve or from enforced pumped storage, the thermodynamic losses of rapidly ramping up or down reserve capacity and all others related to wind power variability, the overall efficiency will be well south of 20%.
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Engineer-Poet on March 20, 2006 - 2:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Sounds like a lack of DSM to me; if the operator could turn water heaters and the like on and off with the variations of the wind, all those problems would disappear.
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