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Wind 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/todayinen
by Manuel_D 4y ago
Wind 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.