An electrician (who I don't believe) told me if there's too much power on the grid, they use wind turbines as fans to absorb extra power. Is this really true? Aren't there plenty of power stations they can just turn down a bit? Take your foot off the gas so to speak? I was also disturbed to hear from him it costs �700 to install smart meters into each home. And in the UK that comes from green tax. Shouldn't that tax be being spent on making more green energy, building new wind farms?
Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?
Started by ●March 18, 2023
Reply by ●March 18, 20232023-03-18
On 18/03/2023 09:39, Commander Kinsey wrote:> I was also disturbed to hear from him it costs £700 to install smart > meters into each home.Possibly a bit more for both gas and electricity but around the right ball park figure. It's always been the case that they had to replace non-smart meters every so often - at one time I think the target was every 10 years. I had a friend who worked for BG and one of his jobs was to organise routine meter replacements (long before smart meters). When it became my turn to have my gas meter replaced I somehow managed to get an appointment that suited me :) And in the UK that comes from green tax.> Shouldn't that tax be being spent on making more green energy, building > new wind farms?Shouldn't that tax be scrapped to make our bills cheaper. It used to be spent on giving us all free CFL light bulbs. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk
Reply by ●March 18, 20232023-03-18
On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 09:39:03 -0000, Birdbrain Macaw (aka "Commander Kinsey", "James Wilkinson", "Steven Wanker","Bruce Farquar", "Fred Johnson, etc.), the pathological resident idiot and attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again: <FLUSH the subnormal sociopathic trolling attention whore's latest attention-baiting sick bullshit unread again> -- damduck-egg@yahoo.co.uk about Birdbrain Macaw's (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL) trolling: "He is a well known attention seeking troll and every reply you make feeds him. Starts many threads most of which die quick as on the UK groups anyone with sense Kill filed him ages ago which is why he now cross posts to the US groups for a new audience. This thread was unusual in that it derived and continued without him to a large extent and his silly questioning is an attempt to get noticed again." MID: <be195d5jh0hktj054mvfu7ef9ap854mjdb@4ax.com> -- ItsJoanNotJoann addressing Birdbrain Macaw's (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL): "You're an annoying troll and I'm done with you and your stupidity." MID: <e39a6a7f-9677-4e78-a866-0590fe5bbc38@googlegroups.com> -- AndyW addressing Birdbrain: "Troll or idiot?... You have been presented with a viewpoint with information, reasoning, historical cases, citations and references to back it up and wilfully ignore all going back to your idea which has no supporting information." MID: <KaToA.263621$g93.262397@fx10.am4> -- Phil Lee adressing Birdbrain Macaw: "You are too stupid to be wasting oxygen." MID: <uv2u4clurscpat3g29l7aksbohsassufe2@4ax.com> -- Phil Lee describing Birdbrain Macaw: "I've never seen such misplaced pride in being a fucking moronic motorist." MID: <j7fb6ct83igfd1g99rmu4gh9vf610ra3jk@4ax.com> -- Tony944 addressing Birdbrain Macaw: "I seen and heard many people but you are on top of list being first class ass hole jerk. ...You fit under unconditional Idiot and should be put in mental institution. MID: <VLCdnYC5HK1Z4S3FnZ2dnUU7-dPNnZ2d@giganews.com> -- Pelican to Birdbrain Macaw: "Ok. I'm persuaded . You are an idiot." MID: <obru31$nao$3@dont-email.me> -- DerbyDad03 addressing Birdbrain Macaw (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL): "Frigging Idiot. Get the hell out of my thread." MID: <4d907253-b3b9-40d4-be4d-b32d453937e0@googlegroups.com> -- Kerr Mudd-John about Birdbrain Macaw (now "Commander Kinsey LOL): "It's like arguing with a demented frog." MID: <op.yy3c02cqmsr2db@dell3100.workgroup> -- Mr Pounder Esquire about Birdbrain Macaw (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL): "the piss poor delivery boy with no hot running water, 11 cats and several parrots living in his hovel." MID: <odqtgc$iug$1@dont-email.me> -- Rob Morley about Birdbrain: "He's a perennial idiot" MID: <20170519215057.56a1f1d4@Mars> -- JoeyDee to Birdbrain "I apologize for thinking you were a jerk. You're just someone with an IQ lower than your age, and I accept that as a reason for your comments." MID: <0001HW.1EE2D20300E7BECC700004A512CF@news.eternal-september.org> -- Sam Plusnet about Birdbrain (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL): "He's just desperate to be noticed. Any attention will do, no matter how negative it may be." MID: <rOmdndd_O7u8iK7EnZ2dnUU78TGdnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> -- thekmanrocks@gmail.com asking Birdbrain: "What, were you dropped on your head as a child?" MID: <58ddfad5-d9a5-4031-b91f-1850245a6ed9@googlegroups.com> -- Christie addressing endlessly driveling Birdbrain Macaw (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL): "What are you resurrecting that old post of mine for? It's from last month some time. You're like a dog who's just dug up an old bone they hid in the garden until they were ready to have another go at it." MID: <59d8b0db.4113512@news.eternal-september.org> -- Mr Pounder's fitting description of Birdbrain Macaw: "You are a well known fool, a tosser, a pillock, a stupid unemployable sponging failure who will always live alone and will die alone. You will not be missed." MID: <orree6$on2$1@dont-email.me> -- Richard to pathetic wanker Hucker: "You haven't bred? Only useful thing you've done in your pathetic existence." MID: <orvctf$l5m$1@gioia.aioe.org> -- clare@snyder.on.ca about Birdbrain (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL): ""not the sharpest knife in the drawer"'s parents sure made a serious mistake having him born alive -- A total waste of oxygen, food, space, and bandwidth." MID: <s5e9uclqpnabtehehg3d792tmll73se0g8@4ax.com> -- Mr Pounder exposing sociopathic Birdbrain: "You will always be a lonely sociopath living in a shithole with no hot running water with loads of stinking cats and a few parrots." MID: <os5m1i$8m1$1@dont-email.me> -- francis about Birdbrain (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL): "He seems to have a reputation as someone of limited intelligence" MID: <cf06cdd9-8bb8-469c-800a-0dfa4c2f9ffa@googlegroups.com> -- Peter Moylan about Birdbrain (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL): "If people like JWS didn't exist, we would have to find some other way to explain the concept of "invincible ignorance"." MID: <otofc8$tbg$2@dont-email.me> -- Lewis about nym-shifting Birdbrain: "Typical narcissist troll, thinks his shit is so grand he has the right to try to force it on everyone MID: <slrnq16c27.1h4g.g.kreme@jaka.local>
Reply by ●March 18, 20232023-03-18
On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 10:49:57 +0000, anal_m, the notorious troll-feeding senile retard, blathered again:> Possibly a bit more for both gas and electricity but around the right > ball park figure.And the first troll-feeding senile asshole, anal_m himself, appeared to feed the abnormal trolling swine again! <BG> -- Birdbrain (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL) baiting the senile assholes in these groups: "Having read the utter bullshit about dying if you fall in a freezing lake for 15 minutes, I've tried it on many occasions. It takes 30 minutes to even get chattering teeth, an hour to shiver nicely, and 2 hours to shiver hard." MID: <op.yvpolqmzjs98qf@red.lan>
Reply by ●March 18, 20232023-03-18
On 18/03/2023 10:49, alan_m wrote:> On 18/03/2023 09:39, Commander Kinsey wrote: > >> I was also disturbed to hear from him it costs £700 to install smart >> meters into each home. > > Possibly a bit more for both gas and electricity but around the right > ball park figure. > > It's always been the case that they had to replace non-smart meters > every so often - at one time I think the target was every 10 years. I > had a friend who worked for BG and one of his jobs was to organise > routine meter replacements (long before smart meters). When it became my > turn to have my gas meter replaced I somehow managed to get an > appointment that suited me :) > > And in the UK that comes from green tax. >> Shouldn't that tax be being spent on making more green energy, >> building new wind farms? > > Shouldn't that tax be scrapped to make our bills cheaper. > It used to be spent on giving us all free CFL light bulbs. >Of course it should be, along with all windmills, solar panels and any feed in tarriffs. Your confusion arises from the fact they you think they are working for you. Government is not your friend, or your servant, It's your enemy, and wants to be your master. Because if it isn't it fears you might get rid of it. -- "When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics." Josef Stalin
Reply by ●March 18, 20232023-03-18
On 18-Mar-23 8:39 pm, Commander Kinsey wrote:> An electrician (who I don't believe) told me if there's too much power > on the grid, they use wind turbines as fans to absorb extra power. Is > this really true? Aren't there plenty of power stations they can just > turn down a bit? Take your foot off the gas so to speak? > > I was also disturbed to hear from him it costs £700 to install smart > meters into each home. And in the UK that comes from green tax. > Shouldn't that tax be being spent on making more green energy, building > new wind farms?Coal fired power stations cannot change their output rapidly, and can be willing to pay for the right to generate in preference to reducing output. So the windfarm notion is not entirely implausible. However, wind turbines use electronics to match the turbine output to the grid frequency, and it seems unlikely that it's designed to operate in reverse for the relatively rare occasions that that would be used. On balance, then, I doubt that using wind turbines as fans is real. Sylvia.
Reply by ●March 18, 20232023-03-18
On 3/18/2023 5:39 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:> An electrician (who I don't believe) told me if there's too much power > on the grid, they use wind turbines as fans to absorb extra power. Is > this really true? Aren't there plenty of power stations they can just > turn down a bit? Take your foot off the gas so to speak? > > I was also disturbed to hear from him it costs £700 to install smart > meters into each home. And in the UK that comes from green tax. > Shouldn't that tax be being spent on making more green energy, building > new wind farms?Does not make any sense. I think it is done with hydroelectric where water is pumped back up at night when usage is down but what do you do, pump back wind?
Reply by ●March 18, 20232023-03-18
On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 07:23:09 -0400 Frank <"frank "@frank.net> wrote:> On 3/18/2023 5:39 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote: > > An electrician (who I don't believe) told me if there's too much > > power on the grid, they use wind turbines as fans to absorb extra > > power. Is this really true? Aren't there plenty of power stations > > they can just turn down a bit? Take your foot off the gas so to > > speak? > > > > I was also disturbed to hear from him it costs £700 to install > > smart meters into each home. And in the UK that comes from green > > tax. Shouldn't that tax be being spent on making more green energy, > > building new wind farms? > > Does not make any sense. I think it is done with hydroelectric where > water is pumped back up at night when usage is down but what do you > do, pump back wind?See: https://www.energy-storage.news/delivering-pumped-hydro-storage-in-the-uk-after-a-three-decade-interlude/ -- Davey.
Reply by ●March 18, 20232023-03-18
On 18/03/2023 11:17, Sylvia Else wrote:> On 18-Mar-23 8:39 pm, Commander Kinsey wrote: >> An electrician (who I don't believe) told me if there's too much power >> on the grid, they use wind turbines as fans to absorb extra power. Is >> this really true? Aren't there plenty of power stations they can just >> turn down a bit? Take your foot off the gas so to speak? >> >> I was also disturbed to hear from him it costs £700 to install smart >> meters into each home. And in the UK that comes from green tax. >> Shouldn't that tax be being spent on making more green energy, >> building new wind farms? > > Coal fired power stations cannot change their output rapidly, and can be > willing to pay for the right to generate in preference to reducing output. > > So the windfarm notion is not entirely implausible. However, wind > turbines use electronics to match the turbine output to the grid > frequency, and it seems unlikely that it's designed to operate in > reverse for the relatively rare occasions that that would be used. > > On balance, then, I doubt that using wind turbines as fans is real.That idea has probably come from the use of "barring gear". When not in use, some wind turbines are electrically driven and turn slowly, to prevent semi-permanent sagging of blades or shafts when left stationary in one position.
Reply by ●March 18, 20232023-03-18
On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:17:53 +1100, Sylvia Else, another brain dead, troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:> Coal fired power stations cannot change their output rapidly, and can be > willing to pay for the right to generate in preference to reducing output.And the second retarded troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE appeared and willingly fed the attention-starved trolling Scottish swine! -- Birdbrain (now "Commander Kinsey" LOL) baiting the senile assholes in these groups: "However I do like to make fun of people. For example, a professor once told a secretary off for having a topless male model as the wallpaper on her computer. So I told her he was a hypocrite, and that he had pictures of transvestites on his (not as wallpaper, but stored on the hard disk). She spread that around quite quickly." MID: <op.y4l803yzjs98qf@red.lan>
