Yes that is why coal based thermal electric power plants are base load.
It takes a LONG time to turn them off and them again a LONG time to fire
them back up.
AG
On 12/2/2011 9:17 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Aussie Guy E-Cat <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On time is claimed to be 6 seconds.
Yup. The original Fleischmann Pons experiment took two weeks to turn
on. People thought that commercial reactors might take hours or days
to turn on. I did not think so but I pointed out that even if they do
that would not be such a disadvantage as long as you can leave the
thing running full time, on stand-by mode.
It takes a long time to turn on a large conventional electric power
plant, especially a nuclear power plant. Sometimes it takes a long
time to turn one off, especially after it melts down.
- Jed
