Reply #78: Are you able to contact reality when you use medications?

[kristopher]

Because you certainly were not in contact with reality when you wrote that tripe.
"Dr" Greg wrote

In addition to not knowing the Laws of
Thermodynamics - kristopher also left
out a number of energy losses.

For example, in his calculations, he
ASSUMED 100% conversion of sunlight into
electricity. Solar cells are NOT 100%
efficient:

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/20...

For large scale PVs SunPower has set a new
efficiency record of 24%.

Of course, the Rankine steam cycle of a
conventional power plant is about 40% efficient.

He also neglected losses in battery chargers, and
those 85% efficient batteries give you 85% efficiency
in charging, and 85% efficiency in discharging ( the
ohmic heating losses are comparable ).

So if one can LEAVE OUT all the data that runs counter
to one's argument; then one can "prove" most anything,
including contentions that are UNTRUE.

Dr. Greg

1) No claim was made regarding solar panel efficiency. It isn't relevant to the analysis any more than is the original solar input to forming the hydrocarbons in fossilized fuels. You are desperately trying to substitute false claims and false reasoning for sound analysis.

2) The numbers I quoted for battery efficiency include the full charge and discharge cycle. It was clearly written so one can only presume you are, again, out of touch with reality and are not functionally aware of the actual nature of the problem you are trying to analyze.
"State of the art lithium batteries used in the electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) that all manufacturers are now turning to can store and deliver the input electric energy with efficiencies greater than 85%, almost always higher than 90% and often as high as 99%." - K