Click to see the enlarged page-size image. You can google the IEEE to get a flavor of who they are, with the PES being its Power Energy Society special interest group - the power grid engineering profession mainly, motor and generator design and production engineers, high voltage and/or high power device physicists and vendors, software engineers focusing on power physics and phenomena, utilitiy managers and other related business folks, energy futures traders, etc.If you are interested in technical aspects of connecting intermittent stochastic power generation sources to the grid and maintaining stability while increasing carrying loads and oprating reliability you should look at this issue. It is as good a starting place as I have seen to get quick, factual, helpful information. While politicians of the GOP ilk in particular are busy saying wind power's a pipedream and an impossibility, the engineers, who are educated unlike GOP Palin types, are making it happen, cogently and economically.
So you can spend time swapping myths with like-minded GOP chums, or you can learn things and become a better person, better educated. Your choice.
Read. Learn. Avoid being an opinionated dunce and instead have informed opinions.
I will end with a sampling of this publication's pages (two facing pages plus a third from a following article), to show a part of the analysis in place and the progress being made by power engineers, meteorologists, statisticians, surveyors, maintenance technicians, right-of-way lawyers, and economics planners to keep your lights from flickering and your TV amusements dependable (except as to content). I expect in the post Civil War era there were politicians belittling the pipedream of a railroad grid for the nation, for reaching west.
There will always be crabgrass on the lawn of life. Sand in the gearboxes of progress. Republicans and other Luddites.
6 comments:
Oh yes.. They are just lovely. Lets put one in your back yard.
Anon - Off point but interesting.
There are always the NIMBY people.
Here's the deal. They can put a wind turbine in my back yard if you let them put a nuke station in yours.
Take it or leave it, or live with darkness once the sun goes down.
I have monticello in my back yard. It dose not bother me a bit. And its real power not fairy dust.
Anon - If you live in Montocello for a home you are quite fortunate. I have not visited there often. However, I have been impressed by the mood of the place and the fine Italian restaurant there.
www.crostinigrille.com/
If there are other restaurants there equal to Crostini, please, in a comment name a few.
I would compare Monticello and Woodbury. As opposites, with Woodbury being much of what is bad about forced growth and traffic congestion; and Monticello being much of what is good about a town growing and evolving on its own absent the attentive hands of urban planners and overeager developers - the one group always knowing best with the other blind to all but the bottom line. Not that they are all that way, just that far, far too many are.
Monticello is a pleasant place.
Yes I do agree. You see if you go so far to the left you make a full circle and end up on the right.
Anon - Woodbury is under Met Council jurisdiction. Wright and Sherburne Counties are not. And Monticello has not escaped the ravages of growth entirely. It has its older core on the river, and burbs now, before getting to the farmland. What about those other restaurants, huh?
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