Fuel Cell Performance

>
> >>> In the real world peak energy demand, and price, occur at mid-
day
> >>> due to air conditioning loads. Solar cells are ideally suited
to
> >>> meeting this peak demand, since they produce energy at exactly
the
> >>> right time. If peak loads can be handled by solar cells, then
> >>> there is significantly less need for centralized power plants.
> >>
> >> Not quite accurate. There would be significantly less demand
from
> >> centralized power plants but you'd still need all of those power
> >> plants and you'd need them to be able to handle *all* of the
demand
> >> capacity. When it is cloudy the solar arrays will be less
efficient
> >> and the demand will come back to the central power plants.
> >
> > Except that when it's cloudy it's generally cooler, at least in
> > California where I live, and you need less air conditioning.
> >
> > ----------------------
> > The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they
weren't
> > space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well,
dinosaurs
> > worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll
should
> > try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to
detect
> > and deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies
to
> > spread beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary
> > catastrophe.
> >
> > Al Globus
> > CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
> > http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html
> >
> > Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not
the
> > position of any organization I'm familiar with.
> >
> The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to
make
> orbital space colonies with ~150 times the surface area of the
Earth in
> usable real estate. See
http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
> for details.
>
> Al Globus
> CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
> http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html
>
> Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not
the
> position of any organization I'm familiar with.