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I’d like to see a plan, any plan at all, to power northern US cities with renewables. Specifically places like NYC, Boston, and Chicago. In the winter months t
by cwhiz 6y ago
I’d like to see a plan, any plan at all, to power northern US cities with renewables. Specifically places like NYC, Boston, and Chicago.
In the winter months there is 9 hours of overcast daylight. There isn’t any room to build a solar farm. There isn’t any room to build a wind farm unless it’s in the water.
Hell I’d like to see a realistic plan to power DFW with renewables.
- olau 6y agoDon't die in the next 20 years, and you're going to see it for yourself: https://news.energysage.com/states-with-100-renewable-targets/ https://news.energysage.com/states-with-100-renewable-target... It's not really that hard. Build a lot of wind turbines (more than 100% coverage), reinforce the grid and add some storage. Offshore wind turbines is a thing. The tech is still somewhat in its infancy, but the costs are coming down. For a high bound regarding storage, take hydrogen, otherwise whatever cheaper will be in production when you get to it. There are several academic studies of this. It's not rocket science, just lots of incremental engineering and economics of scale. If your point is that cities don't have space to provide their own power, yes, you're right, just as they don't have space to grow their own food.
- cwhiz 6y agoYou can ship food. You can’t ship power. Your link doesn’t even come close to answering my direct question.