Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
If you're talking about electrical energy, any of it which is
produced
but not consumed, is wasted energy. I can turn off my
appliances and
lights, but if no one else uses the electricity I'm not
using, it is wasted.
Dave,
Electricity supply doesn't work like that.
The production adjusts itself to the load. If the load
decreases, so
does production. There is no waste from reduced loading. In
fact, if
the load goes down enough, utilities shut down their least-
efficient
plants.
I accept your statements as fact, as far as they go.
They go pretty far.
However, if
electricity is generated and not consumed, it is wasted.
Where does it go? The utility doesn't put huge dummy loads on
line.
If I have a 25
KVA generator running and only use 12 KVA, the available
balance is gone forever.
But it's not wasted.
Admittedly, the generator will use less fuel under the smaller
load.
Because it's not making 25 kVa.
If you're Neon has a 100 HP engine, but you're cruising down the
highway at a steady speed and only using, say, 10 HP, is the other 90
HP "wasted"?
73 de Jim, N2EY