Sentences with phrase «huge excess capacity»

That's because a working electricity system fueled mostly by wind turbines requires additional massive costs that a fossil fuel system does not: huge excess capacity (perhaps 300 - 400 %) to deal with conditions of light wind; gigantic batteries to store power for conditions of no wind at all, which can persist for days; extra transmission lines to bring electricity from windier areas to the rest of the country; and finally, an entire array of fossil fuel back - up plants for those occasions when the wind doesn't blow for a week and the batteries are dead.

But our models, based on history, say that with huge excess capacity, that cash flow won't burn holes in corporate pockets.

Not exact matches

Licensed marijuana producers are in the midst of expanding their capacity and there will be a «huge amount» of excess cannabis if Canada delays legalization, Damas said.

Among the many huge clashes, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet on 28th July in Michigan's «Big House», a stadium with a capacity in excess of 100,000 that is sure to sell out.

The oceans won't eject all that excess heat in a giant gush, of course — seawater's heat capacity is huge and a portion will be locked away for millennia.

Amazon's (s amzn) data center guru James Hamilton is pretty clear that he sees no reason for most companies to keep constructing new data centers from scratch, but if they have a huge compute load and really have to, they should build way more capacity than they need and sell off the excess a la Amazon itself.