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Do we have many countries around where wind is not a thing?
by bogeholm 6mo ago
Do we have many countries around where wind is not a thing?
- peterashford 6mo agoAnd sun isn't uncommon. I was chatting with a person in Auckland, NZ. He said it was a cloudly day and he was producing much more solar power than he needed. His take: the panels are the cheapest part of the system so they just over-provisioned. We can all do that - it aint hard
- aitchnyu 6mo agoOur rainy day production is still a fifth * of our peak in Kerala, India. Wish all inverters support 5x overprovisioning, current ones support 1.5x and suffer lower life. Seems 1.1x is the recommended provisioning guideline. * UK internet stranger said he gets negligible output when it rains
- peterashford 6mo agoThanks for the feedback about inverters - I was unaware.
- devilbunny 6mo agoI'd imagine quite a lot of smaller ones don't have anything. Take a look at https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/ https://energy.usgs.gov/uswtdb/viewer/ and notice that huge swaths of the US have almost no wind turbines.