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On 2022-03-09, Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 12:09:25 PM UTC-5, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
>> Rick C <gnuarm.del...@gmail.com> wrote in
>> news:3ac2d52c-4f01-43bf...@googlegroups.com:
>> > Not until the cost of storage is considered as well. 100% 
>> > renewable energy is going to require massive amounts of storage. 
>> > We are a long, long way from that being economical. 
>> >
>> Wind generators are direct AC grid attached items. Solar requires 
>> conversion, but not neccesarily storage. Ideally there would be a 
>> storage "buffer". 
>
> Not sure what you mean.  Wind turbines do not directly generate the
>50/60Hz AC required for the grid.  The rational speed is far to
>irregular for that.  The power is converted from AC to DC to AC or
>sometimes they do a direct AC to AC, but I've not read how that works,
>it may just be the same AC to DC to AC with a different label.

Possibly something like a cycloconverter.

>> Economical? Have you seen the storms this year. Tornados in 
>> Kentucky in mid December. Freezes in Texas where it rarely happened 
>> before, if ever. 
>
> That's simply not true.  I attended a football game in Dallas once and had to go home because it was snowing and I didn't have clothes warm enough.  I guess it depends on your definition of "rare".   That's why we work with averages and other statistical measures of climate.   Anecdotal extreme cases are a poor way to measure climate. 

It happened to you once,  I'd call that rare.



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  Jasen.