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Oct 9th, 2020, 00:33 | #121 | |
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You can prove whatever you like with data and statistics, but the studies that take liberties like this will get found out by the time that they're peer reviewed. Unfortunately by this time the mainstream media will have already written their headlines, and the sheep will have their 'facts' to argue with with their mates down the pub (or on internet forums). The case in point here is the paper "Electricity Costs: The folly of wind-power" by Ruth Lea (Civitas 2012). This paper turns up a lot on 'climate denier' sites, and argues that building wind turbines creates more CO2 emissions than it saves. In this report she argues that if you have wind turbines, then you must also have an equal generating capacity of conventional (ie coal/gas powered) generation, and this backup power capacity will be operating less efficiently than if you didn't have wind turbines and the coal/gas power stations will be operating at their maximum efficiency. She then added a 70% price premium onto wind generated power to pay for still having to run these stations at reduced efficiency. This 70% conveniently being enough to validate her argument that wind energy is a waste of money. It's only when you dig into the report to find out how she came to calculate the 70% premium that you find the errors and assumptions that may have been conveniently inserted to further Civitas' political aims. The gas fuelled power stations are only operating at reduced efficiency while the wind turbines are providing significant amounts of energy. When there's no wind, the gas power stations are running at full efficiency. However the calculations infer that they are always operating at reduced efficiency. Also when the wind turbines are running, the gas power stations have reduced output, and even though they are not running at full efficiency, they are still emitting significantly less CO2 than if the wind turbines did not exist, but not according to the calculations in this report. Shame really, as the balancing costs of running wind turbines and having to keep alternative generation running on standby is a real issue. Just not as big an issue as she makes out. Never mind, the damage was done. The newspapers had their headlines for a day, and the climate change deniers have a nice printed scientific study that they can refer to (and conveniently ignore the subsequent papers that pointed out the errors). And who knows, it may have influenced the opinions of Paul's 'Engineers that build them'. |
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Oct 9th, 2020, 01:18 | #122 | |
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About 20 years ago i worked next door to a place that made parts for gas turbine generators. They were repairing and balancing one turbone wheel, about 18-20' diameter. I honestly thought we were having an earthquake the first time they started to run it up! Bear in mind the floors were about 4' thick concrete and i was about 1/4 mile from where they were running it. It actually made some of the Daleks walk across the yard - Daleks was my nickname for some 20kVA gensets that were fully enclosed in a 10'x10' enclosure (half the size of the standard lorry container) and i'm not 100% sure on the weight but would guesstimate 2-3T as the 2T forklift struggled and was unsteady and the 3T was only a little better. The 5T had no trouble lifting them though. That was another 1/4 mile from where this turbine wheel was being run up. As i'm sure you can see, a certain level of mechanical sympathy needs to be used when load-balancing as well!
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