In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms than buy fossil fuels

Re:In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms t... by lovemenot on Sunday August 18, 2019 @09:52AM (#20730128)

There seems to be an error in those assumptions.

Halving costs need not be equivalent to doubling of economic capacity. It might just as well cause an order of magnitude or higher of increased capacity.

I would not be able to estimate those factors, but it's almost certainly incorrect to assume a linear relationship between cost and productive capacity.

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Re:In the US, it's cheaper to build and operate wind farms t... by Brakenshire on Sunday August 18, 2019 @01:17PM (#20731490)

Each halving in cost doubles the amount of storage you can apply to any one project for the same cost. 2 hour storage on a solar or wind farm costs around about £5 per MWh, levelized over the batteries lifetime. There is no way to get around that, as far as I can see.

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