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The New DU. Reply #33: Are you being deliberately obtuse again?
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kristopher
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Mon Feb-01-10 01:55 PM
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The point of quoting the shutdown percentages is to demonstrate a point - that ALL generation is intermittent.
The use of a GRID is the answer to intermittency.
The promotion of the idea that individual generating sources must have high capacity factors is based on analysis that disregards this aspect of the grids function and it is therefore an irrelevant consideration WHEN CONSIDERING THE POTENTIAL OF TECHNOLOGIES TO REPLACE FOSSIL FUELS.
It is the AGGREGATION and DISTRIBUTION of GENERATION that are the key elements that determine a grid's reliability.
All of that was in the paper.
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