Wind turbines

[freebeard]

I read all the posts.

As do I. But I'm still waiting on a PM from the mods.

[freebeard]

Five people learn a hard lesson in a small Texas town, to quote Willie.
justacarguy.blogspot.com:a semi-trailer was blocking a train crossing in Pecos City, Texas, because no one is smart enough to check the train schedule to see if they can safely cross a train track? What morons are running these trucking companies?

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Five people learn a hard lesson in a small Texas town, to quote Willie.

This is at least the 2nd incident like this. Does seem trivial to look at train schedules during the logistics phase of planning.

[Piotrsko]

I live in a major train traffic corridor, Amtrak, BNSF & UP and every so often a CSK. Rail Freight doesn't really have a tight schedule but Amtrak does. Rail freight had a couple day window for delivery.

THE Wide/oversize load experience I have: if it's over a certain width, length or weight, you need flashing lights and signs, then escorts and pretrip authorization/approval (sometimes in writing) from whoever owns the road the load goes on. Escorts are responsible for side road traffic and rail crossings and have cellphones or radio communication with someone who can stop side traffic. Really big oversize needs police/highway patrol escort who have radios and cell phones anymore and generally know whom to call.

Afaik, if you get centerpunched by a train, someone screwed up badly somewhere but not the load driver.

[oil pan 4]

Wind and solar power is working so well in Australia the power company needs to be able to remotely shut off your air conditioner to keep the power grid going.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qaZiLd...ature=youtu.be

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by RedDevil

It takes time, but they are under way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China

More than anyone else. But still just a fraction of their total energy production. For now.

It takes energy to make solar panels, but it is just a fraction of the energy they produce.
It takes energy to build a coal plant too, but then pollution does not stop when the plant is ready.

Ha that aged well and still ain't happening.
6 years later and who knew china would still have all those coal plants going, was going to open more, slow roll the switch to renewables? Oh yeah I did.

[oil pan 4]

https://youtu.be/fmbZwxEnAFc
Wind turbines do need a lot of oil. Usually nearly a thousand gallons inside the turbine and another 1,000 to 1,200 in the pad transformer at the base of every turbine.
The gear oil and hydraulic fluid has a life up to 3 years where the transformer oil should last the life of a wind turbine.
Killing the snake is a metaphor.
Pretty sure wind turbines off set the CO2 they produce.

[Logic]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Wind and solar power is working so well in Australia the power company needs to be able to remotely shut off your air conditioner to keep the power grid going.

(Somehow I've made it onto oil pan's 'Ignore' list. [Shrug]
There's a filter you can set up so you don't even see my posts.
Shout if you want a hand with that!

My comments on price and that sort of control are universal)


Combined Heat and Power (CHP):
When the waste heat from a genset engine is used; the efficiency of the engine goes up from ~30% to over 90%!

This is big! Big to the point where there are online calculators on the site's of CHP purveyors to see if your house or block of flats or business/industry wouldn't save money by going CHP.
And a good number of examples of places that have!
https://www.google.com/search?client...%3A+calculator

NB that with Ammonia cycle Aircons and Heat Pumps it's more CHCP: Combined Heat, Cooling and Power


Control:
That new meter would be hacked to shreds in this house. NO-ONE gets to decide what's on and what's not here but me!
"Oooh! but you signed! You'll go to jail!"

" Oh thank goodness you warned me" Type thinking.

Thuck Fat! It's that kind of thinking that making the world the kind of place no-one wants to bring kids into anymore!
It should be a case of: "Yes but if we jail EVERYBODY, who will pay the taxes!?"

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Logic

(Somehow I've made it onto oil pan's 'Ignore' list. [Shrug]
There's a filter you can set up so you don't even see my posts.
Shout if you want a hand with that!

My comments on price and that sort of control are universal)

Quoting makes the comments appear though. I've never 'ignored' a forum member before, because I could simply not read something I don't want to read. If I were to use the ignore feature, it would be to block stuff I'm in wild agreement with, because echo chambers are boring and not useful.

The fella on the right has the most thorough analysis, that politics has created a situation where power is no longer reliable.

While freebeard doesn't trust a thermostat unless it's got a mercury tilt switch in it, that doesn't solve the problem of insufficient power. If people leave their AC on when there is insufficient power, the power goes out anyhow. Is it better to have an entire house without power, or just the AC?

So, switching AC off is a better solution than switching the house off, but is still an inferior solution to generating a sufficient amount of energy to run everything.

My utility pays me to have control over the thermostat. I can override the control, which forfeits that payment. It's super easy to game the system as well, since they announce the day they will increase the AC setpoint. You simply lower the AC setpoint on that day so that their increase brings the temperature right back to where you want it, AND you retain compliance with the opt-in program.

[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by Logic

(Somehow I've made it onto oil pan's 'Ignore' list. [Shrug]
There's a filter you can set up so you don't even see my posts.
Shout if you want a hand with that!

My comments on price and that sort of control are universal)


Combined Heat and Power (CHP):
When the waste heat from a genset engine is used; the efficiency of the engine goes up from ~30% to over 90%!

This is big! Big to the point where there are online calculators on the site's of CHP purveyors to see if your house or block of flats or business/industry wouldn't save money by going CHP.
And a good number of examples of places that have!
https://www.google.com/search?client...%3A+calculator

NB that with Ammonium cycle Aircons and Heat Pumps it's more CHCP: Combined Heat, Cooling and Power


Control:
That new meter would be hacked to shreds in this house. NO-ONE gets to decide what's on and what's not here but me!
"Oooh! but you signed! You'll go to jail!"

" Oh thank goodness you warned me" Type thinking.

Thuck Fat! It's that kind of thinking that making the world the kind of place no-one wants to bring kids into anymore!
It should be a case of: "Yes but if we jail EVERYBODY, who will pay the taxes!?"

You must be thinking of someone else.
Combined heat and power is an excellent idea.