| [GMCnet] wind power [message #149586] |
Sun, 13 November 2011 20:18  |
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Lots of smart money in this game, but only in very specific circumstances. The National Labs have been studying this for a few decades or more and there is no universal conclusion. In some settings, with some combinations of other generation technology, with some combinations of grid dynamics control and some very defined constant wind current regions a few kinds of wind turbines seem to make some sense. One of the really big hurdles is the grid dynamics issue. The more points of entry (different generation facilities) in a given region of the grid the more difficult it is to control the behavior of the localized grid and how that effects the rest of the grid at each inter-tie point. Sounds complicated, and it is. No slam dunk here. It is "easy" to speculate about how much wind power is available around the world and how that could be harnessed to supply the world's electricity needs, but no one has yet figured out how to really do it. So, with all this kind of stuff,
walk slowly and look for the really smart money. Go where they go and no where else. Unless, of course, you can find Nicola Tesla running around somewhere, then follow him......
Jerry
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