Re: Wind-energy customers pay less than those buying fossil-fuel power

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:15:32 +0100, "JMA" <jmDOTa@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>"Paul Vader" <pv+usenet@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu na mensagem
>news:11lvlvpabqd3ufc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> "JMA" <jmDOTa@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
>>>Look at the annual power output: 530,000 kwh.
>>>How many hours of Sun ? Make it 200 Sunny days during
>>>8 hours a day. It makes 1,600 hours a Year.
>>>The average output must be: 530,000 / 1,600 = 331 kw
>>
>> To keep things simple, let's just divide it out to get an hourly figure:
>> 530,000/365/24 = 60.5 kwh / hour. This is a 630kw array. Your 10K array
>> will (assuming you do as well as Sanyo) generate a bit under 1kwh / hr.
>
>Humm.....
>If my 10kw array is a 10 kw array, then it will produce 10kwh in
>one hour, not 1kwh / hr.

Not at night. Paul is allowing for the fact that PV does
not generate power 24/7.

>See, 10 kw during one hour is 10 kwh / hr.
>
>Since you are out by 10 times everything else is out too.

He's not out by ten times unless your planet has more suns
than ours. PV only works in sunshine. It's the original
blue-sky investment plan.

Regards,

Bill Ward


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