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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

How wind kills coal

How wind kills coal. Underlying graphics from a report by the NREL.

Imagine you are a coal plant (gray area) that needs to run continuously to earn the ROI the investors were promised. Yikes, indeed!

Today Germany, tomorrow the world.
Posted by James Mallos at 8:14 AM 0 comments
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Labels: coal, electric utilities, German utility crisis, Germany, marginal cost of production, renewable energy, return on investment, roi, solar power, wind power
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Solar High Beams is about heliostats that concentrate sunlight into an intense but slightly divergent beam.

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