tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475986.post3509137226779452337..comments2024-03-21T05:29:07.463-04:00Comments on THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: DOMESTIC WIND TURBINES: 'A NET USER OF ELECTRICITY'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8475986.post-63685733454083571392008-11-06T13:07:00.000-05:002008-11-06T13:07:00.000-05:00As a retired power system designer who's designed ...As a retired power system designer who's designed many high-power inverters for "variable"-to-AC conversion, I can confidently assert that if they had no net gain in power throughout a day then the wind generation portion of the budget had to have been pretty pathetic.<BR/><BR/>Those converters don't pull all that much idle power, and most of 'em go into smart-power-down mode if the conversion "yield" will be net-negative.<BR/><BR/>However, if they saddled the system with a bunch of monitoring equipment and remote sensing stuff, then their local power budget (not the inverter) is the culprit.<BR/><BR/>I'm a solid AGW skeptic and am very much pro-windpower, but I call bull - or at least "fudged" - on this report.<BR/><BR/>...and I rarely do that at this site. TAB is usually a damned accurate source.ooGcM taobmaetShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15161214971031097170noreply@blogger.com