MFOutlier

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MFOutlier replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 11:18 PM

Re: Ultracapacitors & wind power

SeattlePioneer: Wind power advocates are forever looking for ways to paper over the inherent deficiencies of wind power --- it unreliability.

The post above continues to illustrate this tendency.

You are quite mistaken if not [more]

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MFOutlier replied to the Renewable Energy board. 1:25 PM

Re: Improved Forecasts Cut Cost of Wind Power

BenSolar: ... allow utilities to better integrate wind power, cutting costs and improving efficiency.

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MFOutlier replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 10:46 PM

Re: Wind “backup power” myth

mschmitt: All 10 nuke plants, or even 9 of 10 are not going to suddenly shutdown at once. History tells us this. But it is quite possible...even probable that 90%-95% of the wind will go calm all at once. History tells us this. It happens in the [more]

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MFOutlier replied to the Energy & Utilities board. 9:58 PM

Re: Ultracapacitors & wind power

SeattlePioneer: Your advertizement notes that their "super capacitors are rated at 58 or 94 farads. And that is indeed a lot of capactitance by ther standards of capacitors used in electronics, which are often rated in microfarads (1/1000 [more]