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At mines in the upper midwest, the diesel fuel used in (expensive, famous-name) heavy equipment wouldn't flow when its temperature got far below zero. At that t
by teeja 17y ago
At mines in the upper midwest, the diesel fuel used in (expensive, famous-name) heavy equipment wouldn't flow when its temperature got far below zero. At that time, they had to let the engines idle all night because they had no other (engineered) way to keep the fuel warm.
Yet there are obvious solutions to problems like these. So it's not a "windmill fail" like this newbie journalist is painting it. That they often put out less than their "peak" power is a self-evident part of windpower, and matters nothing so long as the plant is cost-effective. Unlike nuclear.