Re: Wind Power

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The unit supplies electricity 'in lieu' of that drawn from the grid.

The analogy of a 'ring main' pipe is not really very approriate it sort
of works. You have various 'leaks' which is where the appliances are
plugged in and drawing power. The national grid fills a header tank that
is stopping the main ring main pipe ever emptying. What you normally
draw from a socket is immediately replaced in the header tank by the
national grid. However the wind turbine has first opportunity to fill
the tank as it empties, and is indeed constantly doing that so the
amount the national grid has to put in to keep it topped up is less . It
seems from the site that the turbine on average can expect to contribute
1/2 KW . Of course you must be using all the power it generates or it's
is just wasted.

Kevin


UKHA wrote:

>On 18/01/2005 at 13:47 Mark McCall wrote:
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>If there are any electricians on list could they explain how this could
work... I simply don;t get it ...
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>The only thing I can think of is a ring main is like a big water pipe -
it has finite capacity so if you add water from somewhere else it gets full
quicker...
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>What I don;t get is that your power co will be already meeting your
capacity so adding more 'water' would achieve nothing...
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>Simple explaination would be good...
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>Thanks
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>Andy
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