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Strategies & Market Trends : Taking Advantage of a Sharply Changing Environment
NRG 172.47+1.4%Nov 7 9:30 AM EST
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To: DinoNavarre who wrote (1534)2/17/2019 10:59:38 AM
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Dino,
I've seen that helicopters are being used to de-ice them:


So that cost has to be factored in. Then there's good old fossil fuel for the helicopters.

Other methods are being tried. They all sacrifice efficiency.
"The cold, hard truth about ice on turbine blades"
windpowerengineering.com

Most often, the coldest periods come with a high pressure weather system. Little to no wind is a feature of that.
"Wind farms produced 'practically no electricity' during Britain's cold snap"
telegraph.co.uk

And reliance on storage of wind produced energy seems like a monstrous hurdle.
Message 32015828

The push to do away with energy from fossil fuels is basically a moronic and dangerous idea.

And thanks for providing those links.
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