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too much renewable

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In central Europe Germany's copious wind power messes up grid.
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It's an interesting (
) problem. Distributed smaller renewable energy sources are wonderful, but unless there is some really solid generating capability feeding the grid, you run into some really fascinating frequency and phase control problems. Even paralleling two or more generators close together can get tricky -- if they are separated by any significant distance... and it all has to run perfectly, all the time, untended.
Br. Jamie, osb
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England0 -
Thomas Edison and others had a lot of problems getting generators to cooperate with each other early on.
They didn't give up though.
Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment0 -
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Didn't say it couldn't be done -- it's done all the time. Just that there are some interesting (!) problems associated with doing it.ChrisJ said:Thomas Edison and others had a lot of problems getting generators to cooperate with each other early on.
They didn't give up though.Br. Jamie, osb
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England1
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