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That's awesome. I hadn't realised we were close to 20MW ones now. The Halide ones being installed in the North Sea are monsters, amazing engineering. I'm prett
by noneeeed 3y ago
That's awesome. I hadn't realised we were close to 20MW ones now. The Halide ones being installed in the North Sea are monsters, amazing engineering.
I'm pretty pessimistic about climate change. But the way wind and solar just keep getting cheaper and better gives me a certain amount of hope.
- konschubert 3y agoSolar keeps getting cheaper. Wind has kind of hit a roadblock - probably because it can’t be made in China.
- konschubert 3y agoSolar keeps getting cheaper. Wind has kind of hit a roadblock - there is less innovation coming China than for solar.
- _ph_ 3y agoVery different things. There is basically only one solar panel size on the market. Which starts at $100. Making large solar installations means just getting more panels. This is great for cost reduction, as that most of the times goes along with ramping up production numbers. The production of the single panel doesn't get more complex though. Wind energy is also getting constantly cheaper, both due to cost reductions and due to making the wind generators larger and thus more efficient. Onshore wind energy is the cheapest in Middle Europe and if they could grow further, costs would go down accordingly. But even if production can deliver, getting the blades gets more and more difficult, so here we area.
- davedx 3y agoWind is just different too. There are subtle advantages to scaling up wind: fixed costs increase but capacity factors do too (taller turbines means they’re turning more % due to more consistent wind speeds at higher altitudes).