[Watchdogs] Note the "Cost Factor": "Local solar farm gets powered up" [S...

[Williams, Mark (San Antonio)]

Not all fossil fuel plant are designed to spin up with a sudden drop from solar or loss of wind.

Mark

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From: watchdogs-bounces at pec4u.org [mailto:watchdogs-bounces at pec4u.org] On Behalf Of Bill Christensen
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 12:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [Watchdogs] Note the "Cost Factor": "Local solar farm gets powered up" [S...

I believe there are already PLENTY of fossil fuel plants available 
for use as backup in the event of cloudy/windless days.


At 7:49 AM -0600 11/11/10, Williams, Mark (San Antonio) wrote:
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>For full disclosure,  I am the one preaching about generational theft.
>
>Talking about hidden costs, wind power and solar need fossil fuel to 
>back them up with the wind stops blowing and the sun is blocked by 
>clouds.  So you cannot look at just the cost for building a wind or 
>solar farm.  You need to include the backup power source.
>
>It does not matter if it is a cloudy or windless day, fossil fuel 
>can produce the lowest full cost electricity.
>

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