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In reply to Joe K. M Starkely, Why did you leave this out of my comment that you pretended to reference: “His (unshown) math was incorrect, and the result did not seem “very cheap” to me. My arithmetic...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017860">Joe K</a>. Confronted with his...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017860">Joe K</a>. Jojo, No, I was the one...
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Jojo said: “Confronted with his direct quote – Bushbaby denies he stated and defended the $357mwh was the actual cost. Was your direct quote not good enough?” Yes my direct quote was good enough, too...
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In reply to B A Bushaw. Here’s another direct quote : “What does JoJo get when he divides $100M by 280GWh; CM’s initial values, which he admits were wrong? Does Jojo even know how to divide? It seems...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017972">B A Bushaw</a>. Thats your second...
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In reply to David Appell. “Measurements of the sun showed that the radiation sent out from its surface and reaching the ground on Earth is usually consistent with the spectrum of a black body with a...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017961">David Appell</a>. Because I suffer...
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In reply to B A Bushaw. Cite the “first story” or STFU. This post: ——– “B A Bushaw | June 21, 2025 at 2:22 pm | 100x 10^6 USD/280,000 MWh = $357/MWh That doesn’t sound like such a deal for a pile of...
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In reply to B A Bushaw. Baby – this is getting old Its in black and white – your first response was that you clearly showed you believed the $357 per mwh was the correct cost of coal. It wasnt until it...
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No, I clearly showed that Chris’s initial numbers yielded $357/MWh. And I pointed out that it didn’t make sense (not conforming to reality). Too bad you are too dense to understand, and your lies are...
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In reply to B A Bushaw. [in the right place] Jojo, No, I clearly showed that Chris’s initial numbers yielded $357/MWh. And I pointed out that it didn’t make sense (not conforming to reality). Too bad...
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In reply to B A Bushaw. your second sentence clearly showed you believed the $357 was the correct cost number. Black and white –
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In reply to B A Bushaw. Nope, it is my first and only “Story” – you are the one making up stories. Funny, how once again you can’t cite what you think was my prior “story”. Pathetic
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017972">B A Bushaw</a>. PS ~ My second...
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In reply to B A Bushaw. A -you quoted your 3rd sentence, not your second sentence. B – your 3rd sentence confirms that you thought your second sentence was proof that the $357 was the correct cost...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017972">B A Bushaw</a>. bushbaby You also...
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In reply to B A Bushaw. You are a pathetic liar, Jojo. “B A Bushaw | June 21, 2025 at 2:22 pm | [equation under discussion] 100x 10^6 USD/280,000 MWh = $357/MWh [Sentence 1] That doesn’t sound like...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017989">B A Bushaw</a>. you are getting PO'd...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017989">B A Bushaw</a>. Pathetic and without...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017989">B A Bushaw</a>. And, at the time,...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017903">DeWitt Payne</a>. I give up. I...
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Western academias global warming alarmist anti-Americanism is code for, ‘i don’t know how anything works.”
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1017996">Wagathon</a>. <I>All other...
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In reply to Wagathon. “But this issue is the major challenge for the next millennium. It is a complex challenge that extends well beyond understanding the Earth system and developing new technologies –...
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In reply to Wagathon. *********************** “A problem defined, is a problem half solved” Albert Einstein *********************** –
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In reply to Wagathon. “There’s no space left for imagining what our 21 century infrastructure could look like.” Like grid-forming and black-start IBRs, fusion reactors, multiple types of energy...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1018000">B A Bushaw</a>. “those that have...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1018000">B A Bushaw</a>. No, my statement...
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What the renewable sources of energy (wind, solar) are for? Don’t they being implemented to save the earth’s climate from warming? – They have been over-implemented in western countries till now. There...
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Good discussion with “Kathryn Porter: Keeping the lights on | Tom Nelson Pod #314 ” https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=27d2G-S9YUM Mark Miller
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The Planetary Temperature INITIAL PREMISE can be formulated as: For two completely identical planets (or moons), which may differ only in size (and wich are subjected to different radiative fluxes),...
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2025 global temperature continues to be cooler than 2024. May and June 2025 cooler than April 2025 also. 2024 Jan +0.80 2024 Feb +0.88 2024 Mar +0.88 2024 Apr +0.94 2024 May +0.78 2024 June +0.69 AVG:...
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Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/05/texas-data-centers-gas-power-plants-ai/ Good article, it filters though stereotypical left-wing...
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Data centers are building their own gas power plants in Texas https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/05/texas-data-centers-gas-power-plants-ai/ Good article, it filters though stereotypical left-wing...
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In reply to jim2. It might get even colder … https://oz4caster.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/d1-gfs-gta-daily-2025-07-02.gif
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In reply to Christos Vournas. The two completely identical planets (or moons), they should also have the same (N*cp) products, in order to their average surface temperatures (T1) and (T2) in Kelvin,...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1018008">Jungletrunks</a>. Texas tribune has...
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In reply to Joe K. Yeah, they make it pretty clear that ERCOT 2021 failure was due to inadequacies in NG infrastructure (intermittent and unreliable) and operator error. “During the February 2021...
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In reply to Joe K. I guess long term thinking about where and how we get all that new energy should have included how to deal with all the earthquakes and waste water that comes with ‘Drill-Baby-Drill’...
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In reply to Joe K. Jack – As I recall you are resident of wise county. You should know from experience than to believe the accuracy of anything written in the texas tribune.
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In reply to Joe K. People who are concerned about M1.5 or even M3 earthquakes really need to get a life. Here, natural earthquakes >M2 at <5km depth and <5km away happen near weekly if not...
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In reply to Jungletrunks. CM: Straw man – anyone that pays any attention at all to earthquakes know the magnitude is logarithmic-base-10. A M2 releases 10 times as much energy as an M1. An M5 releases...
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In reply to Christos Vournas. Here it is an interesting example to start with: Our Moon and planet Mars are very much similar. 1). Only Moon is closer to the sun (1 AU), and Mars is at distance from...
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In reply to B A Bushaw. No BAB – you got that wrong. How unusual “The logarithmic nature of the Richter scale means that each whole number increase in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in the...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1018011">Joe K</a>. The last times Cali...
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CM, you are right. So the energy increases even faster than the amplitude. E proportional to M^(3/2). The concern, which you do not address, is that the very high number of wastewater injections (and...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1018011">Joe K</a>. B A Bushaw | July 3, 2025...
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In reply to <a href="https://judithcurry.com/2025/05/28/why-cheaper-wind-and-solar-raise-costs-part-iii-the-problem-with-power-markets/#comment-1018011">Joe K</a>. I agree, there were a...
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In reply to B A Bushaw. You are getting near to something important. Stress/Strain = Bulk Modulus. https://openstax.org/books/university-physics-volume-1/pages/12-3-stress-strain-and-elastic-modulus...
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