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Most of Poland's neighbors are situated around the same pond (the Baltic sea) with similar conditions. Winters are dark, and occasionally with little to no wind
by 2000UltraDeluxe 4y ago
Most of Poland's neighbors are situated around the same pond (the Baltic sea) with similar conditions. Winters are dark, and occasionally with little to no wind over the entire region.
Unless you somehow solved storage at a low enough price for it to be viable, we need nuclear or fossil fuels up here - biofuels won't be enough.
- tcfhgj 4y agoEurope has more wind in the winters than in the summers
- 2000UltraDeluxe 4y agoI don't believe that's relevant? Unless someone starts selling and building cost-effective and large-scale storage here and now, nuclear and fossil fuels are the only reliable options that will fix the current situation. Fixing this with trans-European energy transfers is a neat idea, but if you want to send power from i.e. a solar panel on a roof in Spain to my house in Finland, or wind energy from Denmark to Poland, then we'll require infrastructure upgrades at scales that haven't been seen in much of Europe since the early 50's.
- tcfhgj 4y agoYes the grid must be upgraded, not only for transferring energy across countries, but also for electrification of heating, mobility. Fossil fuels aren't a solution, and nuclear energy only a smaller part of it. You can see that if you look at the cost and potential in the IPCC report. There is no way around a massive build out of renewable energy. PS: I just checked energy charts, and saw that Poland has more wind in the winter as well
- 2000UltraDeluxe 4y agoAnd more renewables are not solving any issues until there are more investments in grid and storage. Alas, at least in Northern Europe, the grids are largely in private hands, and investments are kept down to the legal minimum. There's no way we go all-renewable until someone kicks that hornet's nest.
- tcfhgj 4y agoThey reduce emissions already now