A Calculation: How Many Trillions of Dollars of Environmental Damage Will IGCC Coal Cost? | 89 comments (89 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Intermittence (none / 1)

The issue is not total capacity but intermittency and the inability to adjust production to demand.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 10th, 2007 at 03:41:02 AM EST
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Re: Intermittence (none / 0)

...which I think is pretty much a red-herring argument (see comments elsewhere, including Jerome's link to the wind turbines --> compressed air situation in the U.S.)

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Wed Jan 10th, 2007 at 08:17:10 AM EST
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Re: Intermittence (none / 0)

No, it's a real source of uncertainty: we don't know if we can store enough energy to buffer the unreliability of wind etc. If we can't work out a way of doing so we need to provide base-load from somewhere else.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jan 10th, 2007 at 08:32:23 AM EST
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Re: Intermittence (none / 0)

Can passive geothermal provide the baseload?

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 10th, 2007 at 08:34:43 AM EST
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Re: Intermittence (none / 1)

Some of it, at least. We know it's going to have to be a patchwork depending on local conditions.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Jan 10th, 2007 at 08:36:18 AM EST
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A Calculation: How Many Trillions of Dollars of Environmental Damage Will IGCC Coal Cost? | 89 comments (89 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)