tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post7702015161916718408..comments2023-04-07T05:19:44.951-04:00Comments on Yes Vermont Yankee: Smiling Sharks at the State HouseMeredith Angwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02737538041807740424noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-70327553118404384862010-02-23T10:07:36.059-05:002010-02-23T10:07:36.059-05:00"that means we have 3 more years to install w..."that means we have 3 more years to install wind, solar, and hydro."<br /><br />Your best chance of that is to keep VY running.<br /><br />Learn from Connecticut's experience. I don't know, but I guess in the runup to Connecticut Yankee's shutdown, the same renewable soft-soap was being peddled. Once the shutdown had happened, it all blew away like morning mist, and what they got was the Kleen Energy plant.<br /><br />The "renewables" charade is motivated by fossil fuel money. If you want it to be executed enthusiastically, with lots of sharing by government of <em>its</em> fossil fuel income, the real enemy to that money has to be still standing.<br /><br />Understand?GRLCowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03894036301406557803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-90767972014889814912010-02-20T12:53:52.695-05:002010-02-20T12:53:52.695-05:00John,
What do you think will back up wind and sol...John,<br /><br />What do you think will back up wind and solar? It will be natural gas which is why I brought the subject up. Wall Street traders are salivating at the thought of VY closing down since they will more then likely have an open door to pull an Enron on the Vermont consumers.<br /><br />Wind and solar both have time of day and variability issues that can not be overcome. So natural gas will be used to handle those numerous times when wind and solar are not available. Unless of course you like to burn diesel in your portable electric generator at night.<br /><br />I am not against wind or solar but to say we can rely on them for our society's needs is denying the data from this website from BPA which shows the issues of wind.<br /><br />http://www.transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx<br /><br />It is the 7-day rolling wind generation data from Bonneville Power Administration on the Columbia River Basin in Washington and Oregon for about 2700MW installed capacity which is considered some of the prime real estate for wind power.<br /><br />As the graph shows as of 2/20/2010, the only significant wind generation happened during the night of Feb 16th when demand was low. The peak power for the past 7 days was 1000MW for about 2 hours at best.<br /><br />This data will be similar for any wind generation site throughout the country. Not exactly something I want to rely on for 24/7/365 power.Bill Rodgersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-41850627988180725392010-02-19T20:06:22.568-05:002010-02-19T20:06:22.568-05:00good news on the natural gas prices. that means we...good news on the natural gas prices. that means we have 3 more years to install wind, solar, and hydro.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00855219476175875739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033288879708780106.post-56764472638832115832010-02-19T15:57:13.589-05:002010-02-19T15:57:13.589-05:00Meredith,
Thanks for the updates on the VY politi...Meredith,<br /><br />Thanks for the updates on the VY politics and situation as a whole. <br /><br />It is amazing that Vermont people are considering closing their primary power source and tie themselves to Wall Street traders.<br /><br />I see Twitter is ablaze with calls for people to write their Vermont representatives to close VY down. That would be incredibly shortsighted of the Vermont legislature it it did that. <br /><br />Natural gas prices will only stay this low for about 3 more years so to use a highly variable priced commodity to take the place of relatively stable nuke power or tying Vermont to HydroQuebec is very, very shortsighted.Bill Rodgersnoreply@blogger.com