Fossil fuels plant design specifications

This shows that all these systems have already left the experimental R D stage and become an economic reality. They have already demonstrated lower consumption of natural fossil fuels per unit of power generated and lower emission of greenhouse gases and other harmful products. Other advantages over thermal power plants are associated with fuel cell-based power plants. They can be produced in modules, from which power plants of different size and output can be put together. This attribute, known as scalability, facilitates the design and construction of plants adapted to specific local requirements. 

From a spatial perspective, the characteristic of both wind and solar is that they are diffuse resources. This results in projects spread over areas as least as large as fossil-fuel power plants. For wind, the other important characteristic is that it is site specific, so that a wind resource must be developed exactly on the site where sufficient wind is available it cannot be moved to a more convenient location. This implies built-in potential for direct conflicts with whatever may exist already in the same place. A third salient consideration is that no matter how the wind turbines are designed, painted, erected, or spaced to make them less obtmsive or annoying, they cannot be made invisible. Consequently, controversy over their deployment should have been anticipated. One of the best-known examples of such controversy is found near Palm Springs, California (Pasqualetti, 2001, 2002). Two others, less familiar, include the proposal for the Isle of Lewis, in the U.K. and another planned for La Venta, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. 

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