Reply #114: I'm afraid I must take issue with your statement re adding a large number of random numbers. [View All]

[JohnWxy]

"Even a huge improvement in transmission lines merely add(s) together many random numbers, which by definition gets you a random number."

Actually, if you get a large enough number of random numbers, if they are random with respect to each other, according to random number theory they will average out to a quite stable value (in the aggregate). If they do not balance each other out, then they are not random with respect to each other.

YOu raise a very good point about peak power needs but the one thing you left out of your analysis of non-scheduleable sources is....storage. Admittedly, something that needs to be worked on, but an engineering problem and workable.

I still find the notion of nuclear power being "safe" as largely a theoretical concept as in practice it keeps failing the emperical test.

Just recently, Three Mile island sprung a leak. NOw, it wasn't a big one, but what troubles me is they don't know where the leak is!