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Re: Wind farms vs wildlife

Postby Oceanside50 » Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:12 pm

why all these debates about solar(almost useless) or wind(useless), when Cyprus sits on the biggest natural gas field in the world?.......


infinite jobs from the infrastructure build up, including digging and laying pipes,building the LNG plant...etc etc...
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Re: Wind farms vs wildlife

Postby cyprusgrump » Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:48 pm

Oceanside50 wrote:why all these debates about solar(almost useless) or wind(useless), when Cyprus sits on the biggest natural gas field in the world?.......


infinite jobs from the infrastructure build up, including digging and laying pipes,building the LNG plant...etc etc...


Exactly! :D
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Re: Wind farms vs wildlife

Postby kurupetos » Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:29 pm

cyprusgrump wrote:


good!

It has never been done viably, you need vast areas of ugly mirrors and they tend to blow up spectacularly...

Only solution left is nuclear... :lol:
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Re: Wind farms vs wildlife

Postby kurupetos » Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:30 pm

CBBB wrote:
cyprusgrump wrote:I saw a programme about CHP systems many, many years ago (long before the global warming scam)...

They used (if I remember correctly) a Fiat 127 engine... it drove a generator and provided hot water for heating and domestic use... It was all super-insulated and the engine was able to run at its most efficient speed... I think it was connected to a number of houses in a small community.

I guess the key would be matching output to requirements... in Cyprus there would be little point having a system that produced hundreds of gallons of hot water in the summer for instance...


Not quite correct about the need for hot water, restaurants, bakeries, hotels, and certainly some industries require a lot more hot water than they can produce with the normal solar water heaters. They could very easily benefit from micro-CHP.

The thing would be to use the hot water for cooling, possibly with some sort of heat pump? I have no idea if that is viable.

It's called absorption chiller, but you better forget about it. It's a waste of money.
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Re: Wind farms vs wildlife

Postby kurupetos » Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:32 pm

Get Real! wrote:Wouldn’t it be funny if the govt was to install one of those wind thingies on Grumpy’s rooftop! :lol:

I will install one in Lordo's dirty end.
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Re: Wind farms vs wildlife

Postby cyprusgrump » Sat Apr 06, 2013 9:09 am

None of them are moving today - our power must be coming from the magic electricity tree... :lol:
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