· Free Fuel: Unlike other
forms of electrical generation where fuel is shipped to a processing plant, wind energy generates electricity at the source of fuel, which is free.
In addition to the nine regional sectors, a global sector will simulate worldwide climatic effects of electricity generation, as well as global
coordination of electrical generation decision - making.
Here's a little pause, after days focused on numbers (
gigawatts of electrical generation, gigatons of emissions, square miles of sea ice), to reflect on the value judgments underlying efforts to mesh boundless human aspirations with life on a finite planet.
The fact is that wind turbines are much better at making money for speculative private interests and providing an ecological figleaf for the privatization and
deregulation of electrical generation than they are at generating electricity.
It is not clear to me how the authors separated the various fuel sources
out of electrical generation; however, the results show that petroleum and coal receive much larger subsidies compared to their counterpart fuels.
So while the turbine does not reach its maximum
rate of electrical generation until the wind speed gets to about 14m / sec, it is at its maximum efficiency at much lower wind speeds.
Home Owners for a Residential Feed in Tariff, the RPS is the allocation method that is used to set aside a certain
percentage of electrical generation for Renewable Energy in the the State.
The measure directs how a unit's overall efficiency shall be determined on the basis of
outputs of electrical generation and useful thermal energy output, which is defined in the bill as (i) including direct heat and other valid thermal end - use energy requirements for which fuel or electricity would otherwise be consumed and (ii) excluding thermal energy used for the purpose of drying or refining biomass fuel.
Accomplished manager with extensive experience in electrical design, formulating reports, design procedures, quality check, and
optimization of electrical generation with emphasis to renewable energy.
In the early 1970s, Energy Probe saw nuclear power as a relatively clean and economic alternative to coal, then a highly polluting form
of electrical generation.
This was apparently the fault of Western environmentalists, who had somehow obliged the clinic to use solar power, which is «at least 3 times more expensive than conventional forms
of electrical generation.»
Now it is becoming competitive with many other forms
of electrical generation and may be even more competitive if solar installations last more than their 20 year lifespan.
Would you care to make the same extrapolation for all forms
of electrical generation, based on evidence to date?