alt.energy.renewable

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"News" wrote in message news:fttme6$6f7$1@aioe.org...
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> "Bob F" wrote in message
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>> "News" wrote in message news:ftjevk$9q4$1@aioe.org...
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>>> "Don Kelly" wrote in message
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>>>>> Again....the energy to run the machine is "free". Get it? Nah, keep
>>>>> looking in the till and admiring your dollar bills.
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>>>> It's free only in the sense that the energy in coal in the ground is
>>>> "free" It's there for effort of getting it.
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>>> Nonsense! The water (energy) naturally flows into the dam. No effort in
>>> obtaining the energy. The energy is free.
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>> Did the dam build itself? Then it's not free.
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> The dam is a part of the machine. Once built is costs nothing to run in
> energy as the energy is free. Get it. Are most on this group so dumb?

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No- some of us have had engineering experience with hydro and other sources
and do not depend on wishful thinking. You are in fairyland.
The energy that you "get" from the water is no more free than energy you get
from coal or oil.
All the operating and capital costs make it 'Non-free" in practice.
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Don Kelly dhky@shawcross.ca
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