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2careless · 20 August 2008, 07:18 AM

None of the wind/solar/hydro plants are the be all and end all solutions. If you encounter a bad weather pattern than they are stuffed (even hydro plants, what happens if you get a drought (like Australia has now) and your hydro plant dries up???)
We built a lot of secondary "emergency" plants using gas technologies. They can be switched on with 15-30 minutes notice to pump electricity to the grid when the spot supply price is high.

BTW, people are starting to build wind farms out at sea. Let's see whether these experiments work or not.

20 August 2008, 07:18 AM	#16
2careless "TRF" Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Melbourne, AU Watch: Pepsi Posts: 4,370	None of the wind/solar/hydro plants are the be all and end all solutions. If you encounter a bad weather pattern than they are stuffed (even hydro plants, what happens if you get a drought (like Australia has now) and your hydro plant dries up???) We built a lot of secondary "emergency" plants using gas technologies. They can be switched on with 15-30 minutes notice to pump electricity to the grid when the spot supply price is high. BTW, people are starting to build wind farms out at sea. Let's see whether these experiments work or not.

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