What is the Source of Powa for Your Device?
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Oddly, my best bud in town here is an engineer on those wind turbines, with the low CAD and no oil work his company finds it economical to fly him back and forth to the US.
Timsup2nothin
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When I got out of the Navy I looked at a job doing maintenance for one of the wind farm companies. Everything was going well right up to the point that I looked up one of the towers. Somehow life on a submarine gave me the technical qualifications but did not prepare me for that environment.
Hygro
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meta judo
Hygro's hydro powered
some solar rays on hot days like today's
rhymes' high dro powered
CavLancer
This aint fertilizer
You folks recall back when the largest typhoon ever to hit land (Yolanda iirc) devastated Leyte and Samar? It was a short while after a 7.2 quake tossed our island of Bohol killing some fine folks, and destroying homes and churches this island relied on. My amigo Zkrib and I were spared by being off a tiny bit from the epicenter, and by big posts or good construction methods. ...and we gave till it hurt. Dolores and I filled 50 sacks with relief supplies, and Zkrib helped a family who had lost good people. Well, that typhoon which you understand is a cyclonic storm with no difference from a hurricane but that it occurs in the Pacific, KOed the powa to this posta, CavLancer, and to Zkribbla.
Well that's where we diverge. Here on CFC the international news of the devastation of Bohol by quake was compounded by the terrible typhoon, the worst that humanity ever endured, that hit Leyte and Samar. ...and myself and my family member Zkribbler, honorable, vanished.
You good folks recall that? The outpouring of concern, the good wishes? I love you guys for t h a t. We were off line, all sorts of line.
Never forget who you are. You good folks g i v e a rats ass for your fellow member. You don't forget when times are hard, and that is an admirable trait that we don't forget.
But what about when times are good, eh? Do you love each other? What if tomorrow the Earth decided to cut you off from that enemy you never even met, would you miss them?
ing YES!
So tell them while you yet have a chance. Consider for a moment what we here share, CFC. A privilege, not a right.
When all else fails. When CIVILIZATION sites all around self destruct, there is CFC.
...and pray tell us Cav, what does that mean?
It means...
For the most part, your mods are good folks. Members of the community who are not full of themselves. For the most part.
It means, that you can still connect with friends here. The mods won't screw that up, delete your threads, change your posts. This has not always been the case for me on Civ sites.
Even here it has not always been good for me. But is is n o w. Thank your mods for this. Its really something special, true freedom, and unique in my experience. You have it good, now. You will look back on this as a good time. In my experience things go to hell from here. Doesn't have to be I suppose.
We Civ sites are about Civilization, WTH is it?
It certainly isn't a cult of personalty like Apolyton turned into after its early days, or the madness its turned to after. They failed to find that middle ground where a class of reasoning posters could take hold, after the early days.
WPC, well I'm a powerless mod there. If someone should come and assault the site with madness, attack the regular members, those I can do nothing to prevent. They must not be mistreated, no matter how much I wish I could ban them. No, no. Like Germany opening its doors.
I'll tell you, that's not me. The members come f i r s t.
Anyhoo, you folks take offense too much! WTH is offense? I hate offense! What if that enemy or friend you love to disagree with had to deal with the next great event and disappeared from the forum?
What would you wish you had said to them then? If you had courage, what would you say to them today?
Bring it. Bring that!
Well that's where we diverge. Here on CFC the international news of the devastation of Bohol by quake was compounded by the terrible typhoon, the worst that humanity ever endured, that hit Leyte and Samar. ...and myself and my family member Zkribbler, honorable, vanished.
You good folks recall that? The outpouring of concern, the good wishes? I love you guys for t h a t. We were off line, all sorts of line.
Never forget who you are. You good folks g i v e a rats ass for your fellow member. You don't forget when times are hard, and that is an admirable trait that we don't forget.
But what about when times are good, eh? Do you love each other? What if tomorrow the Earth decided to cut you off from that enemy you never even met, would you miss them?
ing YES! So tell them while you yet have a chance. Consider for a moment what we here share, CFC. A privilege, not a right.
When all else fails. When CIVILIZATION sites all around self destruct, there is CFC.
...and pray tell us Cav, what does that mean?
It means...
For the most part, your mods are good folks. Members of the community who are not full of themselves. For the most part.
It means, that you can still connect with friends here. The mods won't screw that up, delete your threads, change your posts. This has not always been the case for me on Civ sites.
Even here it has not always been good for me. But is is n o w. Thank your mods for this. Its really something special, true freedom, and unique in my experience. You have it good, now. You will look back on this as a good time. In my experience things go to hell from here. Doesn't have to be I suppose.
We Civ sites are about Civilization, WTH is it?
It certainly isn't a cult of personalty like Apolyton turned into after its early days, or the madness its turned to after. They failed to find that middle ground where a class of reasoning posters could take hold, after the early days.
WPC, well I'm a powerless mod there. If someone should come and assault the site with madness, attack the regular members, those I can do nothing to prevent. They must not be mistreated, no matter how much I wish I could ban them. No, no. Like Germany opening its doors.
I'll tell you, that's not me. The members come f i r s t.
Anyhoo, you folks take offense too much! WTH is offense? I hate offense! What if that enemy or friend you love to disagree with had to deal with the next great event and disappeared from the forum?
What would you wish you had said to them then? If you had courage, what would you say to them today?
Bring it. Bring that!
Perfection
The Great Head.
Hygro
soundcloud.com/hygro/
over a quarter is renewable (just under half hydro), 58% natural gas. About 15% other stuff. Less than 6% coal.
so I guess I left gas out of my poem.
so I guess I left gas out of my poem.
Perfection
The Great Head.
where are you from samez?
Timsup2nothin
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Very cool comparator thing Perf! Good to know that for all its faults SoCal Edison is waaaaaay ahead of the nation in pretty much all respects.
warpus
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Hydro powers most stuff I use. We even call electricity "Hydro" here, for that reason. There's also a nuclear plant 150km from here or so, but I don't think nuclear contributes too much to Ontario's electricity usage.
Zkribbler
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During the long, frigid Canadian winter, how do hydro-electric generators work? I would have thought that everything liquid would freeze up.
Zkribbler
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There's not really a "grid" in the Visayans. A couple of years ago, Typhoon Haidan [aka Yolanda] knocked out the electricity transmission facilities on Leyte (which moves the electricity from Samar over to us on Bohol). We were without power for several weeks. At one point, a new?/temporary? cable was laid, which brought power from Cebu over to the west end of our island (not to us).
From this, I deduce that the western Visayans get their power from nasty old coal
while we in the eastern Visayans get our from glorious clean geothermal 
.
Samez
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Germany close to the Czech border
During the long, frigid Canadian winter, how do hydro-electric generators work? I would have thought that everything liquid would freeze up.
Rivers big enough to run major hydro operations don't freeze solid until you get well into the Arctic. They may ice over the top. But keep flowing underneath.
For instance, this desktop comp is running off of electricity produced on the island of Samar where the geothermal plants produce energy that emanates from Earth mother's hot core. Yeah baby. Carbon? What's t h a t?
<--- Powered by the Earth, and lovin it.
So, where does your power come from? Coal? Oil? Lets hear it. Fess up. Share you tale of woe. Admit your never ending fount of g u i l t....and become one with it.
Okay, enough of that. Where does the electric come from that's running the device that you used to log on to CFC today?
Cav...Geothermal.
A former nuclear plant that was converted to a coal plant that is currently being considered for conversion back to a nuclear plant.
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My state of Ohio is close to 60% coal, 25% nuclear, a bit over 10% gas, according to Perfection's site link, and the other 5% is mostly renewables. I'm not near the state nuclear plants, so I'm pretty sure my electricity is the old-fashioned coal-generated variety. Which makes sense given the proximity to the Appalachians. There are quite a few natural gas trains that travel through the city, but there are at least as many coal trains as well.
There are some wind farms popping up, but it's far from the numbers seem in the Great Plains, such as Iowa or rural Illinois. It will be interesting to see how the next decade changes this - so far Ohio has changed more slowly than the rest of the U.S., with geography likely being a main factor for that. But if the coal industry's hard times continue and the economics of renewables continue to improve, that could start changing more quickly.
There are some wind farms popping up, but it's far from the numbers seem in the Great Plains, such as Iowa or rural Illinois. It will be interesting to see how the next decade changes this - so far Ohio has changed more slowly than the rest of the U.S., with geography likely being a main factor for that. But if the coal industry's hard times continue and the economics of renewables continue to improve, that could start changing more quickly.
NM pretty much matches the national except we don't use any oil for electricity generation.
classical_hero
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Mostly Brown coal and gas. I just read somewhere about the mix of power in Australia, but i can't remember it. I think it had the current usage.
If you're in Perth you don't have brown coal. You're on the SWIS network which has been about 42% gas, 49% black coal and 8% wind over the last 12 months. Plus household solar covering about 5-10% of demand over daylight hours.
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