Knowledge Problem

Give It Away Now: Wind Power and the Price of Electricity

Michael Giberson

Forbes recently ran a story by Jonathon Farey, “Wind Power’s Weird Effect,” about how sometimes high wind power output and limited transmission capability combine to produce wholesale power prices dropping to zero or below.  (Of course regular readers here have been aware of the issue at least since last November.)

Much more informative was Farey’s story on inventor Leif Hauge and the energy-saving pressure exchanger he invented for use in desalination plants. UPDATE ADDED: (Of course, if I were a better reader of Aguanomics, I would have been aware of the issue at least since last September.)