Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

All because our governments are looking after the f****ng Ukraine.

Other ugly folk. And ugly is in the eye pf the beholder. The is a revealing adjective for plump women - Reubenesque

Back then, if you were skinny, you were probably undernourished, Skinny women stop menstruating, because there's a machanism that stops women getting pregnant if they haven't got enough fat reserves to carry them through a pregnancy. Plump equals fertile.

Dim wankers like Commander Kinsey aren't thinking about propagating their genes (which is just as well) and miss this.

Not a wise choice, but Montana is populated by people who weren't wise enough to move away. Electing a thug like Gianforte, is going to encourage anybody with any capacity for self-preservation to leave.

Exactly, there should be no taxpayers. Every man for themselves, it's the only fair way.

If it's 0.1, there's 0.9 to use, duh.

CO2 production is irrelevant.

There is no cost once the wind turbine is up. But the coal power station keeps on eating coal.

No you're not. The generator simply needs to be powerful enough to handle the highest winds.

Indeed, slwoing down the wind has gotta make a direct impact. Those greenies are so thick.

climate? Now that would be a good laugh.

Wind energy gets turned into heat by friction - the wind passing over any surface experiences drag, and that is just the kinetic energy of moving air being converted to heat.

Wind turbines just move the point where the wind energy is converted to heat to a different point - and if the power generated is stored, a later time.

But it's unlikely to be a perceptible one.

Not remotely as thick as Commander Kinsey.

That's what beer is for.

Commander Kinsey has never heard of variable pitch propellors. With a wind turbine you can always reduce the pitch of the blades so they don't rotates too fast (and don't generate too much power) no matter how fast the wind if blowing. It the wind were fast enough it could rip fully feathered blades off their rotor, but the current generation of wind turbines seems to have been designed with enough safety margin that this hasn't happened yet.

Actually, they are enjoying the chance to fight a war against Putin on somebody else's territory.

Allow Putin to grab the Ukraine, and he'll move on to grab something closer. Help the Ukranians to demonstrate that he's an incompetent thug, and you'll get him replaced by somebody who might have a better grasp of reality. Commander Kinsey might think that he was such a candidate, and I'd encourage him to emmigrate to Russia and offer his services. Buying a one-way ticket would assure them that he was serious.

John Larkin's grasp of what viable is influenced by the climate change denial propaganda which he swallows like the gullible idiot he is.

Australia's utility companies won't invest in any other kind of new generator that isn't solar cells or wind turbines. They are investing in the grid-scale storage that lets them get away with intermittent sources. There's enough fast start gas turbine generation on the grid to fill in the gaps until the grid scale batteres and pumped hydroelecric storage come on line, but around here green energy is the only viable generation option.

Commander Kinsey is much too dim to realise that injecting even more CO2 into the atmosphere isn't a good idea. He's even more stupid than John Larkin, so he doesn't need climate change denial propaganda to give him the wrong idea - he just can't understand the physics involved.

You make the ice at home during cheap night time electricity. During hot and expensive day, blow warm outside air through the ice into your home.

You may also integrate existing air conditioning units with the ice tank, thus reduce the temperature difference the AC has to work against and hence save expensive daytime electricity.

Here I have a much better solution. At night I open the windows and the concrete and masonry loses its heat and becomes a cool bank. By day I close the curtains and the windows and sit inside my cool masonry.

No electricity is involved at all

It's got gallium nitride power devices (for efficiency). Apparently one of the assemblies is "planar magnetics", which is uncommon in ATX supplies. Even though it uses toroids for the front end filter.

On modern supplies with double forward conversion, one of the daughterboards is a 12VDC to 3.3V/5V converter board. Older supplies used one "supply" for all outputs. Modern supplies are two stage. The daughterboard is the second stage, for the lower current rails.

You would need to read the review, to find out what the other daughterboards are for. Visual inspection does not suggest a function.

Paul

Turbines keep on eating blades. Where do the damaged blades wind up?

Turbines fail about every 3 months. Usually gearboxes or bearings. They are serviced by fossil fuelled helicopters boats and 4WD vehicles.

A typical nuclear reactor stays up for about a year between outages, or even longer.

Coal is free too. Just like the wind. But you have to dig it up and transport it. But at least it's stored energy.