Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ...
by bazzert on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:21PM
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Great points. “The damage done by these wind installations is out of all proportion to the benefit,” https://www.ft.com/content/d8b9b0bc-04a6-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e...
Re:Deep Decarbonization: A Realistic Way Forward on Climate ...
by tenacious_tuna on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:17PM
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Heya,
Do you have either a non-paywall version of that article or an alternative article with a similar view? I'm curious what it says, but I can't read it with the paywall in place.
In France, 70% of the electricity is nuclear, 15% is hydro, pumped by the excess nuclear power generated at during the night.
Now for your arguments:
1. Wind goes from 0 to 50mph at sea. No reliable wind corridor exists. Even if Market Street in San Francisco makes me think otherwise frequently :)
2. The concept of wind proliferation has been debunked, at least on the European level. We built a network between Denmark, Germany, Portugal and Italy. It doesn't work.
3. If you don't have wind, putting 3 wind turbines won't help you more. Germany learned it the hard way where their CO2 emission flat lined since 2009 instead of going down despite their all in on the wind and solar energy. If you install 3 times more than what you need, you also have the side effect of making your renewable energy 3 times more carbone intensive. It kills solar as a viable, scalable option for instance.
4. Yes that would be the required breakthough to change the game. Right now batteries production pollute way too much and cost too much to be climate efficient.