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2006-04-05 Caribbean-Latin America

Castro's generator power play aims to beat heat

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Posted by tu3031 2006-04-05 11:02|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 1) A bad time to switch to fluorescent. LEDs are just around the corner and would really make a dent in power usage.

2) These generators will pollute the air in the local neighborhoods.

3) If connected to the grid... when the grid goes down - surges might just take the generators down too.

4) If he wanted to do local in the neighborhood stuff - solar, and wind would make more sense and not require fuel and little service. 1,2 and 5 MW wind generators are common sizes. That is the same as these units. You would just need to secure them in hurricanes.

2MW GE Wind Generator installed on a site in the US is about $5mil so..

$800mil/$5mil = 160 2MW WindGenerators

160 * 2MW = 320MW

That is 320 peak MW compared to the 60MW he just bought.

A real bad deal. 320MW/60MW = a factor of 5.3

So if 1/5th of the wind generators had wind and were working that would equal 100% power from his 32 generators. That's a bad deal!

5) Some of the 50's era stuff was quite energy efficent. Look at a 50s coke or pepsi machine. They just sipped power.
Lots of the cheap stuff from China is NOT very energy efficent. Look at the ratings some time.

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-05 11:41|| 2006-04-05 11:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously, nobody in power in Cuba has ever played SimCity.

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-05 11:42|| 2006-04-05 11:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait a minute....they didn't blame this on Bush!! Reuters is definitely slipping here. Isn't this all the fault of our evil embargo??

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-04-05 12:53|| 2006-04-05 12:53|| Front Page Top

#4 No, they applauded it as being an effective way to outsmart any Bush military attack on the regime.

Sigh.

Posted by lotp 2006-04-05 12:54|| 2006-04-05 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 3dc, oh yes he has! He wants to make it more difficult for the Godzilla-like monster to destroy everything!

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-04-05 13:16|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-04-05 13:16|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not Godzilla like, it's just a giant unregulated housebot.

Posted by 6 2006-04-05 15:50|| 2006-04-05 15:50|| Front Page Top

#7 High-sulfur oil and hundreds of maintenance-intensive engines. If Castro is lucky, he will die before those generators make his "energy revolution" a fiasco, but I'm betting that he will last longer then they do, even with his advanced Parkinson's and age.

Posted by Darrell 2006-04-05 16:31|| 2006-04-05 16:31|| Front Page Top

#8 3dc, *ahem* Wind Generator
factor?

Plz add this *nit*, to pic

Posted by RD 2006-04-05 20:14|| 2006-04-05 20:14|| Front Page Top

#9 RD - A much better solution. Everybody there has a bike. Very Good!!

Posted by 3dc 2006-04-05 21:49|| 2006-04-05 21:49|| Front Page Top

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