Sentences with phrase «like wind power generators»

Like wind power generators, solar cells lack storage capacity.

Not exact matches

Leaf - like solar panels harvest the sun's rays, while their fluttering harnesses wind power using a series of piezoelectric generators on the underside of each leaf.

Everywhere you look, companies and power generators like the Tennessee Valley Authority are announcing plans to shutter coal - fired plants and replace them with wind, solar, and plants that use cleaner - burning natural gas.

While New England is starting to come to its senses (procuring and enhancing sustainable base load sources like hydro and gas) we are also making some foolish choices (blowing over 2 BILLION DOLLARS on wind projects that don't scratch the grid's surface, closing reliable power plants with no reliable generators available to replace them).

For example, ever since the 1990's Professor David Mills and Dr Mark Diesnedorf have been making statements like: — solar power is cost competitive with nuclear power now as a baseload generator, if the government would just give us some more money to demonstrate it — wind power is cheaper than nuclear and because the wind is always blowing somewhere wind can provide baseload generation.

well, there wwere recent calculations, that pure basload power generators also need significant grid extensions and balancing costs, not exactly like wind and solar, but also not that much cheaper when a high penetration of the load in the grid exists.

But because backup generators must repeatedly surge to full power and back to standby, as wind speed rises and falls, they operate inefficiently, use more fuel and emit more — much like cars forced to stop repeatedly on freeways.

Requiring no gigantic «smart grid» sucking the efficiency like a vampire — things that are inherent to these nasty wind machines — Nuclear SMRs are going to allow us to meet all our CO2 reduction goals, without the canard of «nominal power output» being accepted by the lost eco-sheep, and without the 100 % conventional, CO2 - generating backup generators — which must be kept on idle at all times should the wind die down, or a cloud pass over a solar cell — and which all of these wind turbines require.