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It's the "Electric cars will never work until I can drive across the country on one charge" argument all over that line of reasoning. Different areas will requ
by Gwypaas 5y ago
It's the "Electric cars will never work until I can drive across the country on one charge" argument all over that line of reasoning.
Different areas will require different trade-offs. Higher latitudes, excluding inside the polar vortex, tends to have larger amount of wind in the winter.
Currently storage does not make sense because the cheapest store of energy is a smart consumer. It will be very interesting to see if actual storage outside of governmental emergency backups will ever be needed in wind heavy deployments.
- 988747 5y ago>> Higher latitudes, excluding inside the polar vortex, tends to have larger amount of wind in the winter. "Larger amount of wind" still means at most 3-4 days of decent wind per month, that has been my experience living in Poland. There are some windy regions like the Baltic Sea coast, or Tatra mountains in the south, but that's still not enough.
- pfdietz 5y agoPoland is one of the worst places in the world for renewables. Which is sad if you want Poland to have an industrial future. Having Poland's industry be powered by expensive nuclear energy when solar is $0.013/kWh in sunny parts of the world will not bring happy experiences.