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Who's clueless? Excess energy, regardless of the source, can be stored in BATTERIES as well as other methods such as flywheels. I'm sure you've heard of Smart Grid technology? Wind Farms generate most of their energy at night, which also happens to be when energy is used the least. To be efficient, wind energy is stored and then distributed the next day to help balance the load. Companies like Beacon Power in Massachusetts are already doing this. They use hundreds of flywheels to store up to 20 Megawatts of electricity. http://www.beaconpower.com |
Obviously you are clueless.
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/blo...ing.asp?ID=881
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Brandy Giannetta, the Ontario regional director at the Canadian Wind Energy Association, says the province doesn?t currently have a system in place for storing electricity from wind power.
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Where is this big bank of batteries in Ontario? Do you think our government would be PAYING another country to take our excess electricity if they were able to store it? We're not talking about what some hippy built in his back yard with a shed full of car batteries here. Our power grid in Ontario currently has no way to store excess power which is why it has to be sold for a measly 2.5 cents per kw to other provinces, or who have to be paid to take it. Then those provinces end up selling it for 5 cents to someone else. Works out great for Ontario doesn't it?
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If you're going to say things like this, at least say the entire thing. Ontario is paying some turbine owners not to produce electricity, at certain times of the day, because Ontario has a SURPLUS of energy and has had it since 2006. Because they have a surplus this makes them very self sufficient, which saves them over $200 Million a year. Would you like it if your state didn't have to buy electricity from elsewhere? Especially from a coal belching power plant?
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LOL at this saving us $200 million a year. The only reason it saves money to pay them not to generate electricity (which they wouldn't have to do at all if they could store it like you said) is because they initially agreed to pay these wind farm and solar owners 8 times the market value of hydro. They quickly realized this was unsustainable and had to adjust the rates, and yet we are still left with one of the highest electricity rates in Canada and the highest industrial electricity rate in all of North America. This is obviously saving no one money. It's like saying you are saving money by only using $20 bills to light your cigars instead of hundreds.