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Post by joethemechanic » Wed. Jan. 15, 2020 11:18 am

These green energy people are one short step away from the free energy and "it runs on water" nutters. Here in NEPA we average 2.5 "solar hours" per day. Put up one megawatt of solar panels, and produce 2.5 megawatt hours of energy per day on average. The area required for a one megawatt solar farm is about 4 acres, NOT INCLUDING storage.

Wind has like a 20% capacity factor. But yet the green propagandists like to always throw out nameplate values, they also like to mix up kilowatt-hours, and kilowatts like the units are interchangeable.

Then you have all the California nutbags and their harebrained schemes like putting transmission lines underground. If you ask them what they plan to do about the the leading power-factor problem caused by capacitance between conductors they start spewing some Elon BS and call you a shill for the fossil fuel industry.

 
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Post by AllanD » Mon. Jan. 27, 2020 1:26 pm

I observe with amusement that some of the best engineered wind farms in the world are in Germany and with hilarity that on average they produce 17% of their designed output.

Or their PV arrays have yet to produce 12% of their anticipated output!
(In short PV arrays are pointless above a certain Latitude)


 
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Post by joethemechanic » Mon. Jan. 27, 2020 7:37 pm

"Germany produces so much renewable energy they have to pay people to use it"

But yet Germany mines about 200 million tons of brown lignite every year.

What the hell are they doing with all that lignite?

 
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Post by coaledsweat » Mon. Jan. 27, 2020 9:13 pm

Probably need it to make those Rhinemetal gun barrels.

 
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Post by KLook » Mon. Jan. 27, 2020 9:37 pm

You mean Bofors or Krupp steel?


 
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Post by coaledsweat » Tue. Jan. 28, 2020 11:58 am

Smoothbore 120MM gun on Abrams Tank.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinmetall_Rh-120

 
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Post by PolarLight » Sun. Oct. 04, 2020 10:38 pm

Germany will switch to hydrogen soon, belive in 2040. Russia will be producing hydrogen for them, and pumping through net of pipelines.
Russia will be producing hydrogen (or blue ammonia) in its nuclear power plants...

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