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How do you feel about wind farms?
by yuppie_scum 5y ago
How do you feel about wind farms?
- epistasis 5y agoI have been surprised at how they have been able to continually cut costs as well. 10 years ago, the idea of somehow improving cost efficiency to our current levels seemed like a fantasy. The solution was apparently to just build bigger and bigger and model a lot more. The current limitation to terrestrial wind turbines seems to be transportation of larger and larger parts. Floating and sea-floor-mounted ocean wind turbines are also getting super cheap. For regular grid use, iron batteries are really coming along well too, both flow batteries and solid batteries look like they will be economical with current grid costs. So the glue needed to last for a low-wind week seems to be nearly ready.