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It defies common sense that you can make up for wind energy being down to almost nothing for days with 8h worth of energy. Solar will never produce much in the
by cm2187 3y ago
It defies common sense that you can make up for wind energy being down to almost nothing for days with 8h worth of energy. Solar will never produce much in the uk, and will produce zero during the cold UK winter nights when consumption is maximal.
- pydry 3y ago>will produce zero during the cold UK winter It currently is a cold winter day in the UK and solar is right now providing 1.8GW of power - almost as much as two small nuclear power plants. Do you have a more realistic mathematical model than the one above to cite?
- cm2187 3y agoNo need for a sophisticated mathematical model. Look at wind production last year per grid watch [1], the two peaks in term of energy consumption (around Feb 2022 and Nov 2022 in the "Last Year (Day Averages)" chart correspond to times when wind was low (and therefore gas was high), some days going to near zero. And last winter was an unusualy warm winter. If I can find examples just looking at one year's worth of data, how is this going to survive a once in 25 or 50 years weather event with no wind for something like 3 weeks? [1] https://gridwatch.co.uk/ https://gridwatch.co.uk/
- pydry 3y ago>No need for a sophisticated mathematical model There is definitely a need for a model. Even more so if you start making wild claims about the weather. >how is this going to survive a once in 25 or 50 years You think the sun going out and the wind stops blowing for an entire month once every 25 years? That's quite a brave claim. >And last winter was an unusualy warm winter. I remember. Solar power was unusually productive last winter, heating requirements were a lot lower than usual. The wind didn't stop blowing for a month though.