any real big power plant use, at some moment, external energy, if not just to set the light when stopped, or start the fire. You see the need with fukushima, but it is the same for all. even a home backup generator need human energy to start the combustion engine.
NI-H generator pump sometime energy from the grid, but since they produce you aonly have to make the difference... and to be honest you can even use the energy of other Ni-H generator... knowing if it is coal or dam, or Ni-H is only an accounting game. On a good grid, on anyway, if you want to make an autonomous generator, you simply just have to include accumulators, and charge them before the first use... you can also use another generator (backup combustion engine generator, pedaling generator, smaller Ni-H generator, started by smaller hand/pedal/biodiesel/wind/solar/battery/Ni-H... and so on)... anyway at the origin of all energy you find human force to boot the grid, and then the grid (electric, economic) feed itself. 2011/11/30 Joshua Cude <[email protected]> > This would be more credible if the H-Ni generators used electricity > generated from H-Ni, but they don't. They use electricity generated by coal > (or whatever). What is stopping them from doing the trivial engineering > necessary to cut the umbilical cord, and make the devices completely > standalone? > > >
