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Renewable energy doesnt come in bursts: Wind across big areas (e.g. Europe), biogas, running water, geothermal power, osmotic power, etc. I don't know where yo
by tcfhgj 4y ago
Renewable energy doesnt come in bursts: Wind across big areas (e.g. Europe), biogas, running water, geothermal power, osmotic power, etc.
I don't know where you are taking renewable energy capacity from and what are you trying to say. Same goes for producing wind turbines, which actually doesn't require fossil fuel at all.
> I’m not saying this isn’t a “doable” goal, but only way you might get there by 2050 is destroying quality of life, population reduction and investing all resources into this space.
You couldn't make less baseless comments
- Manuel_D 4y agoWind absolutely does come in bursts. Peak production is as much as 4x as much as trough production. There's also hourly variation: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2015.02.25/main.png https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2015.02.25/main.png
- tcfhgj 4y agoThink bigger: Entire continent
- Manuel_D 4y agoThis is way harder than you think it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpM_zKGE4o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpM_zKGE4o
- tcfhgj 4y agoEntire world vs entire continent (already partly reality in Europe)
- Manuel_D 4y agoThe lines are just a few hundred kilometers in that video. If your plan is to even out the intermittency of wind and solar with long distance transmission, then you'll need lines that are thousand and tens of thousands of kilometers long. Europe has an interconnected grid, but most of it is in AC lines that have unacceptably larger transmission losses.