It does. You cannot fake electricity. You cannot fake electric current. If you are depending on solar power for 20% of your electricity supply, and the rest for coal, because coal is reliable on a 7 x 24 basis, you can only rely on solar for a slim fraction of electricity. You haven't solved the problem in a technical manner, all one is doing is employing solar for a fraction of total electricity consumption, to make ones self "feel" better. This is not engineering, it is ideology- a faith movement to make one "feel" better, without providing clean power to power one's civilization. How long must we wait for miracle power sources, if the shadow of Climate Change is overwhelming us all? It is politics and not health, and not engineering that is driving this issue, right?
Mitch -----Original Message----- From: LizR <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Feb 27, 2014 6:17 pm Subject: Re: The solar example of a town in Germany Why does it matter if London can produce 4x the energy it uses? This is why we have national grids (which would be helped even more by being linked up across national borders...oh hang on they already are, aren't they?) This is why there are people in power stations keeping an eye on the load and bringing different sources online as needed. If you have all rooftops covered in PV then you *will* need to burn less fossil fuel, even if you have to fill in the gaps with coal or oil or hydro or nuclear. I can't see the point of this "it has to be all or nothing" argument. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
