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Re: Electrification is good? Are you trolliing....? Or, are you just blowing some smoke up our keisters?
Author: BOB2
Date: 09-20-2021 - 03:36
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> Its good as long as you have the available power
> to supply it.
> Most lakes and reservoirs in the state are going
> dry (loss of hydro-power)
> California Tree Humpers refuse to allow cheap out
> of state coal power
> (Nevada and Arizona are happy to buy it)
> You can run trains during daylight using the
> abundant Photovoltaic power from 10am to 6pm as
> long as the sun it out
The power grid is pretty robust, and doesn't depend entirely depend upon hydro, and most of the commercially viable clean alternatives are not necessarily coming from solar panels. And, when they put those windmills off of Eureka, out on the shelfs, out in the vast wind strean of the easten Pacific, where the wind blows 24/7. And, since that source can theoretically power half of CA, from just that tract, we should be just fine. It seems that Denmark's electric trains are able to have enough electricity to run on, where 51% of electrical power is from wind, with virtually no source of hydropower at all to speak of.
Then, of course are these amazing new generations of tidal, current, and wave powered electric generators, which are now producing very cost competitive electricity. And, then there are some of the recent advances in fusion that have occured. There are even a new generation of much safer nuclear technologies to generate electricity with.
So, given the progress in these areas, just maybe, we'll be able to muddle through, and find enough new sources to power the trains....
Then anyone who wants to, even you, can hump as many of the tree's as they want.....
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> Its good as long as you have the available power
> to supply it.
> Most lakes and reservoirs in the state are going
> dry (loss of hydro-power)
> California Tree Humpers refuse to allow cheap out
> of state coal power
> (Nevada and Arizona are happy to buy it)
> You can run trains during daylight using the
> abundant Photovoltaic power from 10am to 6pm as
> long as the sun it out
The power grid is pretty robust, and doesn't depend entirely depend upon hydro, and most of the commercially viable clean alternatives are not necessarily coming from solar panels. And, when they put those windmills off of Eureka, out on the shelfs, out in the vast wind strean of the easten Pacific, where the wind blows 24/7. And, since that source can theoretically power half of CA, from just that tract, we should be just fine. It seems that Denmark's electric trains are able to have enough electricity to run on, where 51% of electrical power is from wind, with virtually no source of hydropower at all to speak of.
Then, of course are these amazing new generations of tidal, current, and wave powered electric generators, which are now producing very cost competitive electricity. And, then there are some of the recent advances in fusion that have occured. There are even a new generation of much safer nuclear technologies to generate electricity with.
So, given the progress in these areas, just maybe, we'll be able to muddle through, and find enough new sources to power the trains....
Then anyone who wants to, even you, can hump as many of the tree's as they want.....
