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Submarine cable to connect 10.5 GW wind-solar complex in Morocco to the UK grid
- zeristor 5y agoA more recent YouTube video to go along with it: https://youtu.be/iJunxkln578 https://youtu.be/iJunxkln578
- streamofdigits 5y ago> Cable losses along the entire transmission line are estimated between 10 and 12%, but these are justified... It makes much more sense to connect Morocco to Spain and have electricity produced across North Africa / Europe distributed in the most energy efficient way.
- tomohawk 5y ago> However, the supply of power would be similar to nuclear baseload as it would be able to deliver at least 8 hours during any peak demand for more than 363 days in the year Nonsense. A nuke plant delivers steady power 24/7/365. Solar cannot do that without some way to store the power and release it when it is dark. You typically will need 3x the capacity of intermittent sources to replace a base source like a nuke plant, plus some sort of batteries.