re-opening surface mine
- freetown fred
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Yep, on the wind power thing--I travel a little & I forget where (not far from me) there are 1/2 dozen wind mills & I've never seen them turning!! Might be I just pick the wrong time to travel that way!!!! You & me both N on that dumb as a rock concept!!! LOL
- Homesteader
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There's a lot of them when I travel on route 20 from Albany to out your way FF to see my friend in Fabius. Never seen to many of them turning.
- joethemechanic
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Greenies like to confuse installed nameplate capacity with actual production. For example a 5 MW pinwheel has a typical capacity factor of 20%. Meaning it will produce 24 MWh of energy on an average day.
A 5 MW fossil fuel fired plant will have 100% capacity factor and it will produce 120 MWh of energy each and every day.
Then there is the storage problem and associated losses with intermittent energy
A 5 MW fossil fuel fired plant will have 100% capacity factor and it will produce 120 MWh of energy each and every day.
Then there is the storage problem and associated losses with intermittent energy