RadioBanter - View Single Post - BTW Stevie were watch the news lately about NASA

October 9th 05, 01:33 AM

wrote:
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.

N2EY is the public utilities commission?

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.

This is getting inneresting.

Smug Dave goes against Rev. Jim.

If I have a 25
KVA generator running and only use 12 KVA, the available
balance is gone forever.

But it's not wasted.

The 25KVA generator will deliver 12KVA. At a reduced fuel consumption
rate. It will produce 25KVA with advertised fuel consumption. You
will have trouble getting it to produce 30KVA at any consumption rate.

I guess you'se guys have never really dealt with real tactical
communications before. One a self-admitted Vietnam veteran, another
who somehow managed to serve in "other" ways. The Second Infantry
Division would be proud of both of you. Hi!

Admittedly, the generator will use less fuel under the smaller
load.

Because it's not making 25 kVa.

Ooh, Ahh! Congrats to the admirer of amateur radio comms during WWII.

Hi!

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

Yes. If you intend to be going as fast as the "Neon" is able to go.