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Oil Trader on November 12, 2005 - 2:09am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Only if you live right next to the power station otherwise the loss thru the transmission lines are way higher than burning the NG in your home. Up to 50% loss thu an electrical distrubution system.
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Glenn on November 12, 2005 - 1:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That's the power of local distributed energy generation. We should have a goal of making smaller geographic areas responsible for a more significant percentage of their electrical power generation.

How about if each county or congressional district needed to provide at least 50% of its own electrical power? I think that would transform debates about conservation and the NIMBYism around wind power generation.

Each community would have to figure out the best way of getting to that number - if you want coal powered electrical plants, fine, but you have to live next to it. If you don't like coal or wind, then you'll just have to figure out how to lower demand.

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Engineer-Poet on November 13, 2005 - 1:03am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
50% losses?  Here are the 2003 figures:
Net generation, 3,883 billion kilowatthours.
Total retail sales, 3,488 billion kilowatthours.

You can't sell your losses, and the losses (worst-case) are about 10%.

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