XPost: talk.politics.guns, sci.energy   
   From: JW@jw.com   
      
   On 9/27/2021 8:30 PM, Bob F wrote:   
   > On 9/27/2021 6:17 PM, Just Wondering wrote:   
   >> On 9/27/2021 5:00 PM, Bob F wrote:   
   >>> On 9/27/2021 2:12 PM, Just Wondering wrote:   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> No, we do not.   
   >>> Yes, they can.   
   >>   
   >> Explain how you get totally solar energy when the sun   
   >> is below the horizon.   
   >   
   > I don't need to play your word games. The energy is solar, with some   
   > stored in batteries for later use. It is not hydro, it is not fossil   
   > fuel, it is solar.   
      
   You could use excess solar power during the day to pump water into an   
   uphill pond and use a water-powered generator at night.  We can and do   
   use solar energy to grow trees and such that can be burned to power   
   electric generators.  Fossil fuel is just wood that has been stored a   
   very long time before we burn it to release the stored solar power.   
      
   It's not a word game.  Energy stored in batteries literally is   
   not solar energy even if electricity generated from solar panels   
   is used to charge the batteries.  If you're going to play THAT   
   word game, quite literally every energy source in use is stored   
   solar energy.  If that's the game you want to play, hydro power   
   is stored solar power.  Wind power is stored solar power,  Energy   
   from burning any sort of fuel is stored solar power.  Muscle power   
   is stored solar power.  Geothermal is stored solar power.  Even   
   nuclear is stored solar power.  So if THAT's how you play the   
   game, every house on the planet is totally solar.   
      
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