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Ok now shift summer sun into winter.
by buckle8017 10mo ago
Ok now shift summer sun into winter.
- gpm 10mo agoJust build more solar. You generate excess electricity in summer and enough in winter. This isn't a problem.
- Youden 10mo agoI live in Switzerland and my house currently consumes 35-40kWh of electricity each day. I'm in the process of installing as many panels as possible on my roof and right now in winter, they're forecasted to produce ~18kWh on a good day. While it'll be possible for me to be more than fully self-sufficient in summer, I'd need roughly 3x more panels to come close to having a chance in winter, plus far more battery storage than is reasonable. I suspect it might be more doable somewhere with milder winters, like Italy but especially as you go further north and the days get shorter, there's just no chance. For it to work in places with large seasonal differences, we need something else (e.g. nuclear) and/or storage.
- buckle8017 10mo agoThe over build causes these rosey projections about power prices from solar to turn on their heads. 6.5 cents/kWh is pretty good, 65 cents though is terrible. Actually difference is more than 10:1 too
- apexalpha 10mo agoA very large part of the people on this planet have (almost) no winters. We could start with those ~3 billion people. Also wind has proven to be a very good supplement to pv.
- buckle8017 10mo agoThose people already use almost no energy compared to everybody else.
- apexalpha 10mo agoGreat we should be done relatively quickly then. ;)
- buckle8017 10mo agoDone with what, they don't matter here.