Mike Carrell wrote:
Huge and small are relative. Jed points out that wind farms may
total hundreds of megawattts, having hundreds of turbines.
More important, they are spread out in arrays many kilometers wide.
When the wind slows down in one part of the array it will likely pick
up in
In reply to Mike Carrell's message of Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:48:25 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
What is fundamentally different is that in the conventional system, the AC
rotating machines are locked in synchronism with the 60 Hz grid, and if any
one falls out of synch, destruction will follow. With wind
Jeff Fink wrote:
I was heavily involved with power station design from 1970 to 1983 for oil
fired, coal fired and nuclear. I have never encountered a design where
multiple turbine generators share a common boiler or reactor. That
configuration must be quite rare.
Ah. No doubt I was mistaken
An interesting look at a modern power distribution glitch involving
wind and other generators:
http://www.awea.org/newsroom/080312-AWEA-Viewpoint_on_ERCOT_event.pdf
More bull from Lutz, who is promoting corn-based ethanol this week:
GM's Lutz Overlooks Electricity, Favors Vast Ethanol
to be considered.
There are no simple answers here.
Mike Carrell
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From: Jed Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: vortex-L@eskimo.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:06 PM
Subject: [Vo]:Emergency Electric Curtailment event in Texas / more bull from
Lutz
An interesting look
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