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From what I know, wind/solar cannot power industrial needs, only residential. So we can get power at home to heat our house and watch netflix, but there will be
by orthecreedence 6y ago
From what I know, wind/solar cannot power industrial needs, only residential. So we can get power at home to heat our house and watch netflix, but there will be no TVs or heaters to run off of the power.
- jeffbee 6y agoWut?
- Lammy 6y agoIndustry uses three-phase power unlike residential (USA perspective anyway). You'd need one of these for your solar farm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_micro-inverter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_micro-inverter
- jeffbee 6y agoIndustry often goes to great lengths to rectify 3-phase power. In some cases they'd much rather just have the DC anyway. But that's neither here nor there since utility-scale solar power feeds the AC grid and its alternating electrons are completely fungible and indistinguishable from other electrons.
- orthecreedence 6y agoNot enough output.
- conk 6y agoThere are utility scale solar plants being planned/built that produce over a gigawatt of power. They rival the output of the largest power plants today. They can absolutely run industrial facilities as well as homes.
- adrianN 6y agoThat's easily fixed by building more turbines and panels.
- pfdietz 6y agoIf only we had a way to combine the output from many power sources. Maybe we could call it a "grid".