Re: By 2018, Dutch Rail Will be Fully Powered by Wind ~33% of the time (1364991) | |||
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Re: By 2018, Dutch Rail Will be Fully Powered by Wind ~33% of the time |
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Posted by WillD on Wed Sep 2 02:12:57 2015, in response to By 2018, Dutch Rail Will be Fully Powered by Wind, posted by SMAZ on Tue Sep 1 20:14:31 2015. It's all fun and games until the wind stops blowing. Then it's time to choose between paying the Putin and firing up the gas turbines, or just not running trains. And as wind turbines have an availability factor of around 1/3rd or so, I'm not sure how that counts as being ahead of anything. |