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The Ultimate Post | Optimistic Engineer
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Engineer by name, optimist by nature. September 29, 2010. I have decided to end my Optimistic Engineer blog (at least for the time being). It’s mainly due to the time commitment a project like this deserves, which I have struggled to live up to. However, I learnt a lot and hope others did too. Hopefully I’ll continue to learn (not least through my day job) and find new ways of sharing my knowledge with others. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). Build a websit...
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Load following | Optimistic Engineer
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Engineer by name, optimist by nature. LOAD FOLLOWING POWER PLANTS run at full capacity during high demand periods and curtail output or shut down when demand is low. They’re usually natural gas fuelled. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 9 other followers. I think everyone, as consumers and voters, should be well informed about technologies which will affect their future. Live the Green Life. Blog at WordPress.com.
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Base load | Optimistic Engineer
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Engineer by name, optimist by nature. BASE LOAD POWER PLANTS are always on at full capacity (except for maintenance) and have a total output to match the lowest point of demand. Base load plants are usually coal plants because they are the cheapest to run. Nuclear plants are also base load plants because it is difficult to vary their output. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 9 other followers. Live the Green Life.
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Meeting electricity demand | Optimistic Engineer
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Engineer by name, optimist by nature. June 6, 2010. This leads to there being three kinds of power plant:. BASE LOAD POWER PLANTS are always on at full capacity (except for maintenance) and have a total output to match the lowest point of demand. Base load plants are usually coal plants because they are the cheapest to run. Nuclear plants are also base load plants because it is difficult to vary their output. So, where do renewables fit in? Unfortunately, I think that’s a topic for another post! Leave a ...
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Power plants | Optimistic Engineer
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Engineer by name, optimist by nature. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 9 other followers. I think everyone, as consumers and voters, should be well informed about technologies which will affect their future. As this is done so poorly by the mainstream media, maybe an engineer putting things in simple (but not patronising! Live the Green Life. Sustainable Energy – without the hot air. Blog at WordPress.com.
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Efficiency | Optimistic Engineer
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Engineer by name, optimist by nature. Efficiency is basically the “useful stuff” we get out of a system, divided by the “useful stuff” in the resources we put in (usually the “useful stuff” is energy). Electrical efficiency is the electrical energy out of a generator, divided by the energy content of the fuel used (usually burned). Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 9 other followers. Live the Green Life.
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Low carbon | Optimistic Engineer
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Engineer by name, optimist by nature. Low carbon generally refers to something which produces less carbon dioxide (CO. Than other ways of achieving the same thing. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 9 other followers. I think everyone, as consumers and voters, should be well informed about technologies which will affect their future. Live the Green Life. Sustainable Energy – without the hot air. Blog at WordPress.com.
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Half way to 2050… | Optimistic Engineer
https://optimisticengineer.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/half-way-to-2050
Engineer by name, optimist by nature. Half way to 2050…. Half way to 2050…. September 22, 2010. One of the first things to strike me about the 2050 Calculator from DECC ( earlier post. Was how to know if you have matched supply and demand. This seems to be done as part of the model, because if you change the demand side significantly you can see the supply graph changing. However, at a glance it looks like supply is higher than demand…. The more I learn the more I realise I don’t know. Live the Green Life.
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Green for “Go!” | Optimistic Engineer
https://optimisticengineer.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/green-for-go
Engineer by name, optimist by nature. Green for “Go! Green for “Go! September 15, 2010. Someone at work showed me a cool online gadget. Which can help you decide when to do laundry, or bake cookies (in an electric oven! It’s a page on the Ecotricity website. Which shows live gCO. Values for the UK electricity grid. As I mentioned in an earlier post. Per unit of electricity than at low demand times. Demonstrates this with a traffic light – red is bad, amber OK, and green good, or “ green. It would have be...
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Throttle | Optimistic Engineer
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Engineer by name, optimist by nature. Source: http:/ www.wikimedia.org. The throttle in a car is a valve regulating the air intake (and therefore power output) of the engine. This is generally controlled by the accelerator pedal, which is why it’s sometimes called the throttle pedal. The picture on the right shows the basic idea. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 9 other followers. Live the Green Life. Blog at WordPress.com.
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