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The Cost Of Nothing

Webber | 14.05.2007 17:04

Over generation of electricity

Power stations dotted about to supply electricity to the grid,some in France are uneconomical and designed to cost us more.To send electricity along wire over distance requires much higher voltages than are reqiured at the destinations.Loss is due to resistence,suspected at being near to 20% along overhead cable and even more below ground.To generate the higher voltages requires more fuel.In gas or coal fired power stations this increases green house gases.It is suspected as much as a quarter of electricity generated is lost during distribution.A cost we have to foot.The technology is almost as old as the discovery of electricity and no one seems to be intrested in changing it.Why could this be?It's very simple.Electricity generation has more than one power.It has corporate power.A power held by a few.Who have a vested intrest in controlling centralised generation,with it's loss.I can remember once being asked by a factory owner if i could install a generator.When i got to his factory i was surprised to see he had an old wartime genny,they look like an elongated compressor that you see with pnumatic drills.He was concerned it may not be powerful enough to run his small concern I told him it was capable of running the whole industrial estate.My point is the local generation of power is economical and is not subject to power loss.To have disconnected his generator from it's diesel engine and to connect it to water power would have been a simple process,he had a stream near by.There is no need for huge power stations.And no need for corporate owners.

Webber

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DC not AC — Danny
Danny, learn some physics ... — phyicist
erm — pissasist
Not only learned physics, I'll teach you some basics - faker — Danny
about 6 misconceptions here — pissedicist
mass of steam — doh
oh danny boy, — fizzisist
self-proclaimed experts who know nothing — Danny
the medium is the message — v3pete
Unapologetic humiliation, just because I can — Danny Boy
Sorry Scoraig — Danny
DC-DC converters — ffizziccss
Those who can't do, teach — Danny
for such a practical man as yourself ... — fizzlecist
Come on lads — Webber
Fizzhicks? — Dark Sarcasm
Dark sarcasm — fizzizizt
Webber — Danny
methinks — illiteret sientist
You thinks do you ? Proof required. — Danny
WOW — fizzlesticks
Danny — Webber
Sorry Webber — Danny
Just one tiny correction — A Biologist
Grass as fuel ? — Danny

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