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   Just Wondering to Dechucka   
   Re: Wind Solar unreliable compared to Ga   
   28 Sep 21 00:48:03   
   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns, sci.energy   
   From: JW@jw.com   
      
   On 9/27/2021 9:01 PM, Dechucka wrote:   
   > On 28/09/2021 11:16 am, Just Wondering wrote:   
   >> On 9/27/2021 4:31 PM, Dechucka wrote:   
   >>> On 28/09/2021 8:11 am, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >>>> "Just Wondering"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:Ssq4J.17545$IO1.13914@fx19.iad...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On 9/27/2021 2:15 PM, Dechucka wrote:   
   >>>>> On 28/09/2021 5:57 am, contact wrote:   
   >>>>>> When the wind stops blowing, the electricity stops flowing!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Interesting my house is totally solar and I have power at night. Go   
   >>>>> figure   
   >>>>   
   >>>> We all figure that either "my house is totally solar" or "I have   
   >>>> power at night" is a lie, because they can't both be true.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> -----------------------   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Totally solar" is a "black box" model which means that solar is   
   >>>> your only source of electricity, it can include storage batteries to   
   >>>> postpone the use of that electricity.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>> Not sure solar power stored in a battery is a "black box" model. The   
   >>> system I have can obviously be scaled up, Aus currently has 7000   
   >>> megawatts of battery storage to put into the grid.   
   >>   
   >> Battery storage is chemical energy not solar energy.   
   >   
   > Solar energy is a chemical reaction, hey you can claim I'm using nuclear   
   > power.   
      
   Solar power comes from nuclear fusion, not a chemical reaction.   
      
   > If it makes you happy to believe that renewable energy can't   
   > keep going when the sun doesn't and the wind doesn't blow   
   > because chemical  storage is used so be it.   
      
   It's not my "belief", I am describing the science of what   
   is solar energy.   
      
   https://justenergy.com/blog/what-is-solar-energy/  Notice where   
   it says, "Disadvantages of Solar Energy  It Won’t Work at Night."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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