OT: Why is Germany so (apparently) stupid to give up nuclear

On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 12:40:19 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
TraitorTard4@optonline.net> wrote in news:157435fb-35b1-4b84-90b1-
6a6c9a7caa8d@googlegroups.com:

Capiche?

Doesn't this mean "flatten my face with a baseball bat" in retarded,
obsolete newyorkeeze? Because every time you say it, that is what I
think you are inviting me to do, and that is the urge that courses my
veins.

I've added that to your file of threats.
 
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 12:26:58 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:7ada4f25-2e20-43bb-b685-f860d789c4da@googlegroups.com:

As more and more people deploy solar, it just keeps getting worse,
those without solar are getting screwed, subsidizing those with
solar. Carried to the extreme,

Bullshit.

Say all users but ten go to solar. Sorry, punk, but those ten
users are NOT going to pay $300,000 (just a number you retarded twit)
a month each for the power.

Well duh! But it illustrates the point. Which is that solar
customers are dependent on the grid, they use the grid, they need it
at night, but most are paying little or zero for the distribution grid.
And with solar customers having zero or close to zero bills, the
distribution costs are being paid by those without solar. Capiche?





You see, your claim is both baseless and pathetic.

Before solar the $150 a month 'poor guy' paid the same $75 a month
for his distribution.

No shit Sherlock.


After solar the 'poor guy' still pays the same.

Wrong, always wrong. Per the example above, the cost of the grid then
gets divided up over less customers, so those homes without solar pay
an ever increasing percentage of the cost of the grid. As the percentage
of solar homes increases, the problem gets worse and increasingly unfair.



Now, the solar guy, using the same amount in his home, generates a
great deal of that, thereby NOT using the grid at all during that
time. Then, during your precious night sequences, he uses a bit of
his total consumption for that month. That metered usage and cost is
SMALL, just like what he actually used.

Small or zero. Small or zero bill, ie not paying for the grid.



He also gets credit for his
solar, which gets APPLIED AGAINST that small usage. Your precious
'net' is EXACTLY what the term describes. The net amount he then
actually owes the genco back. That number could be positive, zero,
or even negative, placing it back onto that customer's solar credit
books.

Zero or small is indeed what it is, which again means they are not paying
much, if anything for the grid, for all the infrastructure that they
need and that they use. Their non-solar neighbors are paying and getting
hosed.



How you are having a problem with a simple math calculation is a
real tell about you. It is getting increasingly difficult to want to
answer any of your posts except for the fact that you are dumping
pure bullshit into the group that needs to be addressed.

IDK, you sure do have problems with simple math.

Wrong, always wrong.
 
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 11:30:20 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
TraitorTard4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:7e4c7227-6525-40fb-bd8a-de5e61a47aec@googlegroups.com:


You are truly stupid. If simple home solar was producing some
huge
amount beyond their demand, they would pump the grid with it, and
a local battery. That is almost NEVER the case as they are only
supplemental and add up to a portion of the household's daily
use. Especially during the day!

Gee, "especially" during the day? Solar doesn't work at night,
stupid. The house would have no power without the grid, which
solar homes aren't paying for, though the desperately need it and
use it.



You missed the point dipshit. Pumping the grid during the day
while the genco is at their max utilization gives them ease, and they
PAY for that.

Like I need a total fucking retard like you to tell me that a solar
panel does not produce at night.

You apparently need a remedial math course though.

They use a little at night. They PAY for that AND its
distribution.

No they don't stupid. If the net bill is zero, then they aren't
paying anything, including for the distribution system that they
use at night. Their neighbors without solar are footing the bill
for the distribution system.


Wrong, always wrong.
 
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 2:09:45 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 10:56:22 AM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 12:29:14 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 12:28:27 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:98b217b3-8859-4f5b-8297-27856115a4f6@googlegroups.com:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 4:12:53 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 1:32:00 PM UTC-4, Whoey Louie
wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 10:50:01 AM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@
decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:1c7c66e4-961d-48b7- 8133-f0104fde3211@googlegroups.com:

snip

Someone with solar has a net bill of ZERO or close to it.

Seems unlikely.

Has anybody ever seen the electricity bill of somebody with roof-top solar cells?

NO! Only against what they generate. Once that match is even up,
they PAY for what they USE. REAL SIMPLE. WAKE UP.

Which is what I said, zero or near zero, stupid.

The claim that anybody actually gets a zero or near zero bill is a trifle incredible.

If they get paid for excess power that they have generated, and fed back into the grid, rather than using it themselves, it isn't actually a zero bill, but that's a more complicated idea than Trader4 can cope with.

snip

You are full of shit. The infrastructure is already in place and
went in before privatization in many cases. Most cost is now in
maintenance, and new builds.

And their non-solar neighbors are paying for that distribution system,
the solar home with a zero bill is not, stupid.

Wrong, always wrong.

Trader4 does come closer to that than most.

Even if the house with solar cells on the roof manages to generate more power than they use, and ends up getting paid enough for the excess that they have fed back into the grid to have a zero bill, the power that they have fed back into the grid is their payment for the cost of the distribution system.

Wrong, because in most states they get PAID for the net energy they
put into the grid. But then living in Australia, WTF would you know.

In Australia, feed-in tariffs are lower than consumption tariffs, and there's a whole bureaucratic rigmarole before you can feed anything back into the grid. I ran into a project to build a home battery backup system that could be guaranteed not to feed power back into the grid (and electrocute the utilities maintenance guys when they were working on chunks of the grid that had been isolated from the utility's generators so that they could work on them).

BTW, why is it that you have to take one post and turn it into three
separate replies?

You made a whole lot of different mistakes.

> Wrong, even with that.

Trader4 does suffer from this persistent delusion that he knows what he's talking about.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 1:52:11 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 10:32:22 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:312e60fb-b48f-4a95-8e07-8e5e98f36489@googlegroups.com:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 11:44:57 PM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:86de1321-a74c-4418-9581-ebd08d27c64d@googlegroups.com:

<snip>

Yes, they are you fucking retarded twit!

WHEN their meter moves because they are using the grid instead of
their solar, they pay! IF their solar provided them additional
credit against that, they STILL payed for it with their solar.

Repeat after me, zero times anything is zero.

Trader4 has these moronic mantras. He doesn't know what it means, but he thinks it sounds good.

Solar home has a net usage of 0 kwh, their bill is zero, except for
maybe a small, fixed meter charge, eg Rick;s $15 example.

It won't be zero if they don't push a good deal more power back into the net than they use - realistic feed-in tariffs are lower than consumption tariffs.

Home with poor people down the street, their bill is $150, about half
that is for DISTRIBUTION, ie the infrastructure that the solar home
is also highly dependent on, without it they would have no power at night.
So the solar home is paying zero or close to it for the distribution system,
the poor folks are paying $75 a month for it.

As more and more people deploy solar, it just keeps getting worse,
those without solar are getting screwed, subsidizing those with solar.
Carried to the extreme, if there was only one non-solar home left,
they would have a monthly bill for the entire cost of the whole
distribution system!

So it isn't going to happen. Extrapolating from an introductory subsidy designed to get roof-top solar going to a situation where most people have it is exactly the kind of unrealistic nonsense that Trader4 goes in for.

Utilities have accountants, and more sense than Trader4.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 1:31:38 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 10:08:02 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:a8503f1f-a4bf-43f0-8673-b167c8772d6a@googlegroups.com:

Oh, BS. I can read an electric bill. Mine, about half is for the
cost of the energy, the other half is for DISTRIBUTION.

Yes, IDIOT. AND WHEN THE SOLAR USER READS HIS, half of HIS *METERED*
usage is for the distribution thereof.

See if you can follow this, 0 times anything is zero.

Trader4 is dim. If the hypothetical zero is the sum of a positive charge a repayment there isn't any multiplication going on.

IOW, if he generates, that meter does not move, because there was NO
USAGE. If he uses it when not generating, it does move.

If it does move, he pays. Same same. Get over it, ya dippy twit.

Net zero times anything is zero, stupid.

Nobody is multiplying anything, and Trader4 is too dumb to have noticed.

Solar home electric bill: Zero or $15

Non-solar poor schmuck's bill: $150, half of it for the GRID ie DISTRIBUTION

Who's paying for the big grid the solar home needs when the sun isn't shining?

In part, the generated power that the solar home has to feed back into the grid to come out with a small bill.

The utility doesn't have to generate that power at the time it is being fed back into the grid, which saves them generation cost.

> Wrong, always wrong. Maybe Bill can explain it to you, he seems to get it.

Oh, I do. Trader4 doesn't, and has deluded himself into misunderstanding what I've posted as if it supported his arguments, which is more or less his trademark.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 
On 23/9/19 9:11 am, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 2:09:45 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 10:56:22 AM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 12:29:14 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 12:28:27 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:98b217b3-8859-4f5b-8297-27856115a4f6@googlegroups.com:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 4:12:53 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 1:32:00 PM UTC-4, Whoey Louie
wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 10:50:01 AM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@
decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:1c7c66e4-961d-48b7- 8133-f0104fde3211@googlegroups.com:

snip

Someone with solar has a net bill of ZERO or close to it.

Seems unlikely.

Has anybody ever seen the electricity bill of somebody with roof-top solar cells?

NO! Only against what they generate. Once that match is even up,
they PAY for what they USE. REAL SIMPLE. WAKE UP.

Which is what I said, zero or near zero, stupid.

The claim that anybody actually gets a zero or near zero bill is a trifle incredible.

If they get paid for excess power that they have generated, and fed back into the grid, rather than using it themselves, it isn't actually a zero bill, but that's a more complicated idea than Trader4 can cope with.

snip

You are full of shit. The infrastructure is already in place and
went in before privatization in many cases. Most cost is now in
maintenance, and new builds.

And their non-solar neighbors are paying for that distribution system,
the solar home with a zero bill is not, stupid.

Wrong, always wrong.

Trader4 does come closer to that than most.

Even if the house with solar cells on the roof manages to generate more power than they use, and ends up getting paid enough for the excess that they have fed back into the grid to have a zero bill, the power that they have fed back into the grid is their payment for the cost of the distribution system.

Wrong, because in most states they get PAID for the net energy they
put into the grid. But then living in Australia, WTF would you know.

In Australia, feed-in tariffs are lower than consumption tariffs,

Not with my supplier, Amber Electric. Feed-in rate and consumption
tariff is precisely the moment-by-moment wholesale rate. Then I pay a
separate fixed monthly charge for the distribution network, plus $10 for
Amber to do all that.

Which is exactly what our government should have done rather than
privatise the whole network.

Clifford Heath.
 
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 9:43:52 AM UTC+10, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 23/9/19 9:11 am, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 2:09:45 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 10:56:22 AM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 12:29:14 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 12:28:27 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:98b217b3-8859-4f5b-8297-27856115a4f6@googlegroups.com:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 4:12:53 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 1:32:00 PM UTC-4, Whoey Louie
wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 10:50:01 AM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@
decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:1c7c66e4-961d-48b7- 8133-f0104fde3211@googlegroups.com:

<snip>

Wrong, because in most states they get PAID for the net energy they
put into the grid. But then living in Australia, WTF would you know.

In Australia, feed-in tariffs are lower than consumption tariffs,

Not with my supplier, Amber Electric. Feed-in rate and consumption
tariff is precisely the moment-by-moment wholesale rate. Then I pay a
separate fixed monthly charge for the distribution network, plus $10 for
Amber to do all that.

But the "moment-by-moment" wholesale rate is a lot higher at night, when you are consumer, than it is during the day when you might be generating, so the effect is that feed-in rates are lower than consumption rates.

During the day the South Australian Tesla battery buys in cheap power to charge the battery for a lot less than it charges for the same power (actually 85% of it) when it sells it back to the grid at night.

When I last got educated on the subject, the "moment-by-moment" rate was actually calculated on half-our chunks, much to the disgust of the guy that had designed the system, and had wanted a ten-minute-by-ten-minute auction.

Which is exactly what our government should have done rather than
privatise the whole network.

Probably true, but politicians are fashion-driven, and it takes more than one Enron to get it through to them that that particular fashion made them look ridiculous.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:03f38c8c-85d4-437f-b100-c453c9fa2f1e@googlegroups.com:

On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 12:40:19 PM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
TraitorTard4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:157435fb-35b1-4b84-90b1- 6a6c9a7caa8d@googlegroups.com:

Capiche?

Doesn't this mean "flatten my face with a baseball bat" in
retarded,
obsolete newyorkeeze? Because every time you say it, that is
what I think you are inviting me to do, and that is the urge that
courses my veins.

I've added that to your file of threats.

"file of threats"

BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

Bwuahahahahahahahahahahah!

Tell it to your therapist. Maybe you'll get that remedial reading
comprehension course assistance you so need.
 
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:721db584-4fca-48b8-b937-724662570d02@googlegroups.com:

On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 12:26:58 PM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:7ada4f25-2e20-43bb-b685-f860d789c4da@googlegroups.com:

As more and more people deploy solar, it just keeps getting
worse, those without solar are getting screwed, subsidizing
those with solar. Carried to the extreme,

Bullshit.

Say all users but ten go to solar. Sorry, punk, but those ten
users are NOT going to pay $300,000 (just a number you retarded
twit) a month each for the power.

Well duh! But it illustrates the point.

No, it does not, idiot. It proves that you are full of shit.

Which is that solar
customers are dependent on the grid, they use the grid, they need
it at night, but most are paying little or zero for the
distribution grid.

Bullshit. They *use* "a little at night" THAT is what they pay
for because that is all they owe.

Damn you are thick, boy!

And with solar customers having zero or close
to zero bills,

NO! you fucking idiot. They DO pay! goddamn boy!
The goddamned monthly statement shows it perfectly.
You are a fucking retard.

the distribution costs are being paid by those
without solar.

No, you retarded fuck. They are being paid by ALL customers,
including those GETTING CASH CREDIT against their soalr generation.

WAKE THE FUCK UP AND SMELL THE PAY OUT, DUMBFUCK!!!

Fronm that PAY OUT, the bill is REDUCED by whatever number.

That does not mean that it was zero. You are fucking stupid to
think it does.

> Capiche?

Fuck you, retarded twit! HOAD!
 
On 23/9/19 10:03 am, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 9:43:52 AM UTC+10, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 23/9/19 9:11 am, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 2:09:45 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 10:56:22 AM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 12:29:14 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 12:28:27 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:98b217b3-8859-4f5b-8297-27856115a4f6@googlegroups.com:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 4:12:53 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 1:32:00 PM UTC-4, Whoey Louie
wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 10:50:01 AM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@
decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:1c7c66e4-961d-48b7- 8133-f0104fde3211@googlegroups.com:

snip

Wrong, because in most states they get PAID for the net energy they
put into the grid. But then living in Australia, WTF would you know.

In Australia, feed-in tariffs are lower than consumption tariffs,

Not with my supplier, Amber Electric. Feed-in rate and consumption
tariff is precisely the moment-by-moment wholesale rate. Then I pay a
separate fixed monthly charge for the distribution network, plus $10 for
Amber to do all that.

But the "moment-by-moment" wholesale rate is a lot higher at night, when you are consumer,

Right, and that's rational pricing. It creates an incentive to install a
battery. Not yet a big enough incentive for me yet, but nonetheless, if
you want rational behaviour, you have to enshrine rational incentives.

We don't use much power, except for when we run the A/C during the hot
summer months. Rooftop solar make that effectively free, and any excess
gets sold to others who are doing the same.

Clifford Heath.
 
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 6:56:07 AM UTC-7, Whoey Louie wrote:

Do the other sources of grid power need to take power from the grid to power
their generation plants?

Yes, I suppose they do; a generator plant will have lights-on requirements
even if the on-site generator is not spinning. Why do you ask?

Home solar users need and use the grid for
that when the sun isn't there, yet their electric bills are zero or
near zero and they aren't paying for the grid.

I'm sure not all bills from the electric utility are 'zero or near zero'
but if negative terms are in the bill, it's because the utility has good cause for them.
"The laborer is worthy of his wages"

Their neighbors who don't
have solar, including the poor, are paying an increasing share of the
cost of the distribution grid. If half of homes have solar, the distribution
charges on the remaining half will have to about double to cover the cost.

I see no relevance. The 'double' number has no parents, it's an orphan.
The 'poor' who chose to buy electricity but not install a plant to generate it,
are making a decision that suits them, of the usual cost/benefit type.
 
<TraitorTard4@optonline.net> wrote in news:ba384012-64d7-4e58-807c-
781edbcacba0@googlegroups.com:

No they don't stupid. If the net bill is zero, then they aren't
paying anything,

You really need to understand that those credits are 100% equivalent
to cash.

They DO indeed pay. Just like all customers.
 
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in news:721db584-4fca-48b8-
b937-724662570d02@googlegroups.com:

Per the example above, the cost of the grid then
gets divided up over less customers,

No it does not! ALL customers PAY, even though your blind as a bat
eyes fail to see the money.

Grow up, you stupid fuck. Better yet, HOAD!
 
krw@notreal.com wrote in
news:eek:m9goe9e5ka37evl5maavps4lrchdebtj3@4ax.com:

On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:48:03 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:721db584-4fca-48b8- b937-724662570d02@googlegroups.com:

Per the example above, the cost of the grid then
gets divided up over less customers,

No it does not! ALL customers PAY, even though your blind as a
bat
eyes fail to see the money.

AlwaysWrong is *always* wrong.

Grow up, you stupid fuck. Better yet, HOAD!

Always.

Looky! KRW has returned to mumble some more petty senile old
nearly dead wretched hearted fucktard baby bullshit.

Your frequency is decreasing. That must mean that the chest is
declining. Don't worry... it's coming.

You also a lifelong tobacco smoker, fuckhead?
 
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:48:03 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in news:721db584-4fca-48b8-
b937-724662570d02@googlegroups.com:

Per the example above, the cost of the grid then
gets divided up over less customers,

No it does not! ALL customers PAY, even though your blind as a bat
eyes fail to see the money.

AlwaysWrong is *always* wrong.
Grow up, you stupid fuck. Better yet, HOAD!

Always.
 
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 12:07:35 -0700 (PDT), Whoey Louie
<trader4@optonline.net> wrote:

On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 11:30:20 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
TraitorTard4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:7e4c7227-6525-40fb-bd8a-de5e61a47aec@googlegroups.com:


You are truly stupid. If simple home solar was producing some
huge
amount beyond their demand, they would pump the grid with it, and
a local battery. That is almost NEVER the case as they are only
supplemental and add up to a portion of the household's daily
use. Especially during the day!

Gee, "especially" during the day? Solar doesn't work at night,
stupid. The house would have no power without the grid, which
solar homes aren't paying for, though the desperately need it and
use it.



You missed the point dipshit. Pumping the grid during the day
while the genco is at their max utilization gives them ease, and they
PAY for that.

Like I need a total fucking retard like you to tell me that a solar
panel does not produce at night.

You apparently need a remedial math course though.

They use a little at night. They PAY for that AND its
distribution.

No they don't stupid. If the net bill is zero, then they aren't
paying anything, including for the distribution system that they
use at night. Their neighbors without solar are footing the bill
for the distribution system.

They're using the distribution system just as much as those who don't
have their own generation system. The distribution system is sized on
peak usage, not average. Depending on the system, peak usage may not
be when the sun is shining.

>Wrong, always wrong.
 
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 00:50:16 +0000 (UTC),
DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

TraitorTard4@optonline.net> wrote in news:ba384012-64d7-4e58-807c-
781edbcacba0@googlegroups.com:


No they don't stupid. If the net bill is zero, then they aren't
paying anything,

You really need to understand that those credits are 100% equivalent
to cash.

They DO indeed pay. Just like all customers.

AlwaysWrong, as always.
 
On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 18:04:52 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd <whit3rd@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 6:56:07 AM UTC-7, Whoey Louie wrote:

Do the other sources of grid power need to take power from the grid to power
their generation plants?

Yes, I suppose they do; a generator plant will have lights-on requirements
even if the on-site generator is not spinning. Why do you ask?

Home solar users need and use the grid for
that when the sun isn't there, yet their electric bills are zero or
near zero and they aren't paying for the grid.

I'm sure not all bills from the electric utility are 'zero or near zero'
but if negative terms are in the bill, it's because the utility has good cause for them.
"The laborer is worthy of his wages"

Their neighbors who don't
have solar, including the poor, are paying an increasing share of the
cost of the distribution grid. If half of homes have solar, the distribution
charges on the remaining half will have to about double to cover the cost.

I see no relevance. The 'double' number has no parents, it's an orphan.
The 'poor' who chose to buy electricity but not install a plant to generate it,
are making a decision that suits them, of the usual cost/benefit type.

Perhaps the government should buy them panels so they aren't exploited
by the rich. It _is_ the leftist's way.
 
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 11:30:00 AM UTC+10, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 23/9/19 10:03 am, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 9:43:52 AM UTC+10, Clifford Heath wrote:
On 23/9/19 9:11 am, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 2:09:45 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 10:56:22 AM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
On Monday, September 23, 2019 at 12:29:14 AM UTC+10, Whoey Louie wrote:
On Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 12:28:27 AM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:98b217b3-8859-4f5b-8297-27856115a4f6@googlegroups.com:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 4:12:53 PM UTC-4, Rick C wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 1:32:00 PM UTC-4, Whoey Louie
wrote:
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 10:50:01 AM UTC-4,
DecadentLinux...@
decadence.org wrote:
Whoey Louie <trader4@optonline.net> wrote in
news:1c7c66e4-961d-48b7- 8133-f0104fde3211@googlegroups.com:

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Wrong, because in most states they get PAID for the net energy they
put into the grid. But then living in Australia, WTF would you know.

In Australia, feed-in tariffs are lower than consumption tariffs,

Not with my supplier, Amber Electric. Feed-in rate and consumption
tariff is precisely the moment-by-moment wholesale rate. Then I pay a
separate fixed monthly charge for the distribution network, plus $10 for
Amber to do all that.

But the "moment-by-moment" wholesale rate is a lot higher at night, when you are consumer,

Right, and that's rational pricing.

It doesn't always look all that rational. On occasion the price gets bid up way high, which covers the interest on the big and expensive fast-start generators that exist mainly to back up the ageing base-line generators that break down from time to time.

It creates an incentive to install a
battery. Not yet a big enough incentive for me yet, but nonetheless, if
you want rational behaviour, you have to enshrine rational incentives.

Or find away to penalise freeloaders, who are messing up the climate by burning fossil carbon as fuel and dumping the CO2 produced into the atmosphere.

We don't use much power, except for when we run the A/C during the hot
summer months. Rooftop solar make that effectively free, and any excess
gets sold to others who are doing the same.

In Australia, reversed cycle air-conditioning is a sensible way of warming your house in winter. In Europe you'd need a much bigger heat pump to cope with the worst case thermal losses (or a super-insulated house, which isn't such a bad idea anyway).

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney
 

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